[rlmorel]

I agree with many of these sentiments, and sadly so. The blameless people who live in those regions (and there are some) are slaves to the Leftist Plantations just as surely as if they had an iron collar around their necks being sold from a block in the town square.

There are two major things that need to change before they can be free of their bondage:

1. Get out from under The Boot of the Democrat Party.
   It is the party of racism, pure and simple. Until they consistently vote for non-Democrats in numbers greater than 5-20% that won't happen. The Left has regarded that 80-95% block of votes with contempt, and there is a lot of money and a good number of federal jobs and power associated with racism.
   
   
2. Reject and repudiate "Black Culture"..
   "Black Culture" as practiced in the United States is virulently toxic, corrosive, and self-destructive. Thomas Sowell describes it well in his book "White Liberals and Black Rednecks". It encompasses everything from rejection of education and embrace of misogyny to this perverse culture of "snitches get stitches", promotion of violence for the most innocent of personal affronts, rejection of the work ethic, and abdication of the family unit.

Until they tackle these two things and reject both of them as a start, people like Nedra Rhone (the author) and the puzzled and affronted people who had quotes like these in the article will live under the imposed lash of Leftism:

• “I feel so bad for those who depend on the Kroger.”
  
  
• “Walmart is super crowded now that that Kroger is closed.”
  
  
• “I have 7 kids and depend on Kroger”
  
  
• “Crazy. This would have been resolved long ago had it been north of I-20…”

It is astonishing (especially the very last comment about how crazy it is) the degree of detachment and abdication of any personal responsibility in this.

I got the same impression from hearing the talking heads on television this morning lamenting the high cost of gasoline and its impact on the increase in prices of goods and services and travel costs.

They speak about it, not as a result of having open supported as an industry and personally voted for a political party that has openly and unequivocally stated that it wants to drive energy costs up and has taken specific actions to do so, but as if unbidden aliens from space had descended on earth and done things to cause the cost of energy to decrease.

Many of these people, and specifically the people with their verminous rat-claws on the levers of power in these areas, have implemented policies to publicly demonize, degrade, and even defund law enforcement, and encourage illegal behavior.

For them to be offended by this, and like the last poster, blame it on racism against them, is an indication of just how serious the problem it. They own the problem personally, and share that equally with the people who buy and sell their votes on an auction block in the political town center just as surely as if it were a slave auction.

[rlmorel]

I meant:

"...unbidden aliens from space had descended on earth and done things to cause the cost of energy to decrease INCREASE..."

[Robert A Cook PE]

Very true. Thank you.

[V_TWIN]

“I have 7 kids and depend on Kroger”

I will always believe many issues within the black community in this country are rooted in the lack of traditional nuclear family.

7 kids? A good chance this is a female with no husband to support ‘em all. Sad.

[usconservative]

I wish I wrote and expressed myself as well as you just did.

I used maybe my first 10 years here on FR, but I’ve grown old and impatient. Pushing 60, I just don’t have it in me much anymore to be as thoughtful and patient as I used to.

I also have little to no patience for people such as those in this article who don’t see themselves and their actions (voting) as being responsible for the situation they’re in.

Black “culture” driving broken families, crime, drugs, abortion as birth control and a complete lack of respect for the beauty and sanctity of human life. The inner cities are today’s Sodom and Gomorrah. They are living the consequences of their actions and there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

Respectfully,

USC