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City program will boost men, boys of color
Boston Globe ^ | September 18, 2014 | Meghan E. Irons

Posted on 09/18/2014 6:26:15 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Mayor Martin J. Walsh has launched an initiative this month targeting the city’s black and Latino boys and men, a population at risk for joblessness, poverty, and a host of health disparities, according to several studies.

Building on the lead of President Obama earlier this year, the mayor is introducing Boston’s version of “My Brother’s Keeper,’’ a network meant to bridge the gap between men of color and their potential achievements.

“There are a lot of young black and Latino men that we have here in our city that need this initiative,’’ Walsh said in an interview. “This can be helpful in changing their lives.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


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To: Repent and Believe
What about Elizabeth Warren's offspring? Do they qualify?

Also, is “boys of color” acceptable but “colored boys” is racist? I am not sure of the changing Libspeak.

21 posted on 09/18/2014 6:55:26 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: oh8eleven
Why is it these minorities can't help themselves?

Cause we whities keep our boots on their necks, don'cha know.

22 posted on 09/18/2014 6:55:52 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Organic Panic

Why do worse sinners need more help... explain that one to me Einstein.

The problem is in the WRONG kind of help.


23 posted on 09/18/2014 6:56:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: grobdriver

They’d steal our boots except they are workboots and would have no use to them (duck’n & runn’n!)


24 posted on 09/18/2014 6:58:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The minority community needs to change this attitude.


25 posted on 09/18/2014 7:32:30 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
They do need a government program, as do all of us.
We all do? Since when?
I'm 65+ and the only gubmint programs I've used are the GI Bill and SS/Medicare.
And believe me, I earned them ... the hard way.
26 posted on 09/18/2014 8:45:16 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What makes him think they will take the same initiative that’s been available for everyone else, when they continually keep rejecting it because they are bitter, and have some bone to hash with the rest of the world because of their bitterness?

Is this not an exercise in futility?...like all the other things this nation seems to be going along with?


27 posted on 09/18/2014 10:35:57 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“(duck’n & runn’n!)”

HAHAHA...AND trying to hold their pants up at the same time.


28 posted on 09/18/2014 10:37:49 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“I say rednecks come in every color, and redneck is what a humble, God-grateful society would tend to look like.”

You know....I have to agree with you as to how a humble, and God-grateful society would look like. However, a true ‘redneck’ isn’t someone from the South. It was someone who worked in the coal mines of W. Virginia, that wore a red bandana/handkerchief as a symbol of their intent to ‘unionize’. It’s called the “Battle of Blair Mountain”.


29 posted on 09/18/2014 10:48:44 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: ConservativeStatement

All paid for by taxes on Whites, of course.


30 posted on 09/18/2014 10:49:27 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SampleMan

“Thank God that my white skin makes me immune from those awful things.”

And THIS is exactly why non-whites hate whites. Whites don’t seem to be immune from “stupidity”, it seems.


31 posted on 09/18/2014 10:52:17 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: ourworldawry
Are suggesting that non-whites are incapable of understanding parody humor and sarcasm, or that its best to pretend that idiotic victimology isn't idiotic victimology?
32 posted on 09/18/2014 11:53:14 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

“Are suggesting that non-whites are incapable of understanding parody humor and sarcasm, or that its best to pretend that idiotic victimology isn’t idiotic victimology?”

Nope. Just saying it’s a stupid thing to say. Especially when whites have been the cause for so much pain, and disparity among non-white people. It seems more like the whites who are incapable of “understanding” the plea of those who the whites oppress. That’s all I’m saying.


33 posted on 09/18/2014 12:07:12 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: ourworldawry

The coincident monicker arose in two contexts, one being the miners who had unionized to demand safer and saner mining practices, and the other being the common southern agricultural workers whose necks would be burned red in the outdoor sun.


34 posted on 09/18/2014 12:26:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: oh8eleven

How about actually reading before knee jerking before the end.

If you have the world but are unsaved, you have an eternal seat reserved in the smoking section.


35 posted on 09/18/2014 12:28:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Oh, I get it, more "God" references and scripture.
How about using using whatever amount of brains God gave you and come up with something original.
36 posted on 09/18/2014 12:41:08 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

You mean more worldly, more earthly?

God is the most original, unique entity going. By a factor of, well, infinity.


37 posted on 09/18/2014 12:42:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: oh8eleven

In other words did you think God gave you brains in order to call them private and go pleasure yourself?


38 posted on 09/18/2014 12:43:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ourworldawry

What a load.

I haven’t been the source of anyone’s racial problems, and neither have “whites”. Some white people have been a problem, just as with any other racial group. Would you say that the Chinese and Koreans were treated better by the Japanese than the white’s treated them? How about the last 50 years of black-on-white crime statistics? Do you tell blacks that they are idiots if they don’t accept guilt by pigment association?

How about you stop defining me, and subscribing societal guilt to me, based on my skin color.


39 posted on 09/18/2014 1:13:31 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

“What a load.

I haven’t been the source of anyone’s racial problems, and neither have “whites”. Some white people have been a problem, just as with any other racial group. Would you say that the Chinese and Koreans were treated better by the Japanese than the white’s treated them? How about the last 50 years of black-on-white crime statistics? Do you tell blacks that they are idiots if they don’t accept guilt by pigment association?

How about you stop defining me, and subscribing societal guilt to me, based on my skin color.”

Well, you actually defined “yourself” with your comment. The one where you said....

“Thank God that my white skin makes me immune from those awful things.”

Do you really believe that? Especially when we have a current leader who is doing nothing put stirring the shit, and making it stink even more than it already does in this world?

And well...I’m not interested in who treated the Chicoms, or the Koreans “better”, or by ‘who’. Nor do I dismiss any of the black-on-white crimes that you mention, either. Blacks don’t have the ‘pigment’ issues many whites do. Blacks know their black, AND have to endure being disparaged against, for it. A COLOR. One of which YOU think will keep you immune from awful things. Really?

Anyway, considering the standard that seems to still be alive and well among countless whites toward blacks, and even other darker-skinned ethnic groups, we could probably expect another 50 years of being hated by other cultures who are not as white as the paper many whites use to wipe their behinds....IF there were that much time left for the world.


40 posted on 09/18/2014 10:45:09 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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