Posted on 06/03/2023 8:04:58 AM PDT by simpson96
This is a tale of two black people and one major city.
Within just the last week, Walmart closed half its store locations in Chicago, and the city police department instituted new curfew and bag-check policies at public parks and beaches following days of “reckless, disruptive and violent behavior.”
A sane person who prefers living in a clean, safe, and prosperous city would see that news and say things are going in the wrong direction, and the people who are responsible for it need to be held accountable.
That’s how popular TikTok user The Blaq Mamba reacted in a video she posted Sunday. (snip)
She said she was “ashamed and saddened” because “We blame everybody else for our sh-t but then when we are tapped out of resources in our own community, we don’t ever want to look at ourselves and point the finger back at ourselves, and say, okay, maybe we f-cked up. Maybe we shouldn’t have been going in there stealing TVs and going in there stealing electronics and all this other sh-t … We need to do better.”
A person who is perhaps not sane or who is, at minimum, a societal parasite sucking the life and goodness out of everything would react just the opposite. He would excuse the ne’er-do-wells, thieves, and fiends. Instead, he would direct blame at those who refuse to tolerate anti-social behavior.
That’s how deadbeat incoming Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reacted in 2020, the year of Saint George Floyd rioting. (I assume you don’t need me to tell you he’s a Democrat.) Johnson saw no urgency to the situation. “I’m saying that people are acting out of desperation,” he said in a remote TV interview, dialing in from what looked fittingly like a jail cell.
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I have a problem with your use of the word “Becoming”.
“CME?”
Johnson is a Marxist Dem.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange aka the Commodities Exchange where the world’s futures contracts are traded it would be akin to the NYSE or the NASDAQ leaving NYC
It flew past “quickly” and “becoming” decades ago.
Quickly becoming? The places closing down now were on the edge for quite a while. The election just put the period on the sentence.
since the Industrial Revolution, the “middle class” has been almost entirely a construct built on massive public spending and government debt.
Not so sure it has been that long.
Agriculture still was a major economic driver at the turn of the twentieth century.
Although born elsewhere, I grew up in the Heartland in a small rural community in the 1950’s.
It was very much agriculturally based.
Farmers raised crops on somewhat hilly lands and raised livestock as well.
There were a couple of small timber mills.
There were a couple of medium sized meat packing plants within twenty to thirty miles.
There was local hatchery which was a family operation.
There was even a fish market which sold fresh fish and whose owner sold game in the winter months although he was in violation of hunting regulations and FDA requirements.
There was also a creamery of sorts in which a local farmer brought in fresh milk and cream once a week and was sold in a storefront. It was unpasteurized I am certain.
There may have been farm programs and subsidies but I am not aware of them.
There was no gubmint assistance that I know of, although there was no shortage of people scrambling to get by just feeding their families and keeping a roof over their heads.
Hunting and fishing was not a hobby but a means of putting food in people’s belly.
YOU asked for it, you got it
TOYUTA!
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. https://www.cmegroup.com/
Well said. We are dealing with an intractable situation.
Elimination of the bourgeoisie (us) as it were.
Elimination of the bourgeoisie (us) as it were.
The rest of us have quit feeling sorry for these people so all I can say is 'It's about time they made the connection between 'we don't have stores to shop at - and we steal'...
ping
Why is FR repeating postings over and over? Anyone know?
I’m kind of surprised that the destruction of our cities isn’t more of a national political issue. The Democrats run nearly 100% of the big cities yet they never get blamed for it in a sustained way.
Thx
I rather thought the ghetto had been established before he took office.
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