DON'T EAT THE FECKIN' PAINT!!!!
Posted on 08/26/2015 7:55:52 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Before his April death after being severely injured in police custody, before this hollowed-out city plunged into rioting, the life of Freddie Gray was a case study in the effect of lead paint on poor blacks. The lead poisoning Gray suffered as a child may have contributed to his difficulties with learning, truancy and arrests — all of it culminating in a 2008 lead-paint lawsuit and a windfall of cash locked inside a structured settlement. By late 2013, Gray was striking deals with Access Funding.
People like Gray who have suffered lead-poisoning as children are especially vulnerable to predatory transactions. Many are impulsive and mentally disabled, but not so much that the law regards them as incapable of acting on their own behalf, as long as they’re 18.
“A lot of them can barely read,” said Saul E. Kerpelman, who estimates he has defended more than 4,000 victims of lead poisoning, nearly all of them black. “They have limited capacity. But they fall through a crack. If they were severely disabled enough, you could file a court petition to have a trustee manage their property. But they’re not disabled enough.”
Over the past two decades, state legislatures and the U.S. Congress have passed measures to protect vulnerable people selling structured settlements. In 2000, Maryland inked the Structured Settlement Protection Act, which enumerated a series of requirements. First, a seller must seek the counsel of an independent professional adviser. Then the proposed deal must go before a county judge, who decides whether that agreement reflects the seller's best interests.
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Yeah, and so may have the alignment of Venus and Mars. That weasel-word "may" simply smashes any cogent argument to dust since the word is consistent with anything and is, hence, an untestable hypothesis.
Democrat-run cities tend to have two kinds of lead poisoning: the slow kind and the fast kind.
Okay,,lsts examine the why as to why an urban black child may eat paint off a building structure. Perhaps mom, no dad, may not be feeding the child? You know in the past then we didnt have taxpayers footing the bill for every meal, schools didnt do all three meals for them so they could spend money on other things. We didnt have 3 summertime school lunches like now.
Liberal lawyers working 24/7/365 to $crew American Taxpayers.
well if you don’t have a farm that you couldn’t farm, I guess lead poisoning is the next best thing
The problem is that the lead paint is sweet-tasting so if it’s peeling it’s nearly impossible to keep kids away from it, regardless of how well-feed they are. The only real solution would have been proper maintenance of the property but that would have driven up the cost of housing, also bad news for poor families. All in all a lose-lose situation.
The impact of chronic lead poisoning on the brain and nervous system is well-documented.
Actually for several years now, lead has been seen as a likely cause in the spike in violent crime in the 70s and 80s and why it’s gone down since the mid 90s.
Maybe my parents screwed up. After all, I post on Free Republic.
It’s lead paint. It’s institutionalized racism. It’s a CIA plot. It’s global warming. It’s anything but Freddy Gray’s fault.
I am aware of that, but I don't know the part it played in Freddie's death.
Point taken. It would be more accurate to say that it contributed to a lot of the problems he was having, but not necessarily a direct factor in his death.
The problem wasn’t kids chewing on walls, it was kids peeling the paint off and ingesting the flakes. This issue was more prevalent in poor neighbourhoods due to the fact that the properties tended to be less well-maintained, and there was probably less awareness of the issue among ghetto parents (especially after the Great Society destroyed black families).
From what reputable source?
From what reputable source?
Pealing flakes or chewing ... doesn’t make a difference. Parents and the lack there of are the problem.
A real problem in Chicago, esp on weekends.
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