Posted on 06/11/2015 10:54:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Who says we don’t? Ever been to West Virginia?
I read many years ago that scientists were trying to find out why children eat lead paint. I dawned on someone to try eating it. They found out it tastes sweet.
Bertrand Russell said: “Most people would rather die than think, and millions have.”
It is NEVER their fault. It is lead in the water, it is the rich, it is the system, it is the schools, it is the tests, it is the residuals effects of historical events from 160 years ago, etc etc etc... NEVER is it their own doing.
Thanks for the quote.
Along with the babies before wedlock is babies by those practically babies themselves (out of wedlock usually goes with). We've got generations Where great-grandma is 45, grandma is 30, and mom is 15. And that's the norm. Entire cultures whose matriarchal structure is made up of those with the life experiences and maturities of 15 year olds, going back generations.
The answer: babies, just fine until the public needs to step up and pay, therefore - along with welfare one must be fixed - no more babies (regardless of race, etc.) and if the father can be located - they will be fixed as well.
Yes, the first baby may cause welfare to be tapped - but that's the end of it - perhaps even may detour some from engaging in risky sex.
There's no downside to this plan - population will naturally be reduced, especially at the low end of the economic scale - equal opportunity for all.
How black do I have to be, to be considered "disproportionately black"?
1/8? 1/4? 1/2? 3/4?
And is that the opposite of "proportionately black"?
IMHO, the thing that causes poverty is the same thing that causes pretty much every human situation: Values.
If your values are negative, you make bad decisions. If your values are positive, you make good decisions. Karma is actually self-inflicted.
Another excuse for the failure of the black communities. In earlier times, the Irish, the Poles and the Jews lived in those same places. But they were not trapped by the need of that monthly welfare check, by the lack of fathers. Want overarching explanation? one is that revolt by urban blacks against normality, which included the traditional family, that began in the late 50s, was “managed” by King’s “non-violent” approach until the civil rights legislation of 1964 and then burst out in the violence of 1965. Which continues to this day. King was able to mask the revolutionary potential of his movement but once its goals had been reached, which was the end of segregation, then the proclaimed goal of integration, the assimilation into normative American culture,was thus aside and black tribalism pushed forward. What Johnson had promised, which was subsidy and freedom from legal restraints, was nose not enough. The opposition to the war grew because it was seen as reducing the black man’s rightful share of the national pie. That demand has never abated. Likewise the rejection of the normative, middle-class life style. It was added and abetted by the growing rebellion among the young of the white ruling class. Now they are old and now they and their children have gained control of all the major institutions of American society. It was, in many ways, like the populism of the late Roman republic, which was led by the likes of Julius Caesar. Bread and circuses.
Wait — who eats the paint? I grew up in old houses and never did I feel the urge to eat the paint. Okay, maybe I did play with mercury some but I never ate the paint. Besides, the walls had thirty coats of other paint over them. Tell me that housing projects and section 8 housing has lead paint all over the place. Those places were probably the first ones cleaned up. I don’t buy it. How about urban thug culture where stupid is glorified?
I didn’t either and we played also with mercury. We never touched it though. My late sister’s kids did eat paint though when they were younger, or so she wrote in her letters to me
So much has changed since 1978. Buildings come and go. Renovations take place (and are regulated for structures painted prior to 1978). Layer after layer of paint is applied in buildings which do not need renovation.
How big a danger is lead paint today? Why, I bet it might affect 0.00000001% of our children!!!!
Yeah...da be a whole lot of lead flying round dat naberhood....
I'm not a smart man...but this may be the most ridiculous article I've ever read.....almost.
MHP...
Excellent....thanks for that...
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