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The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relations
PJ Media ^ | August 16, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/17/2015 4:42:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 08/17/2015 7:30:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Why do polls show that racial relations have gotten much worse under Barack Obama, who won the White House with over 95% of the black

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; obama; racism; vdh; whites
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To: austinaero
Long wordy way to state what is obvious ...

Hanson uses the long, wordy way to state everything. He's a great researcher and a solid analyst, but a headache-inducing prose stylist.

21 posted on 08/17/2015 7:03:59 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jessie Jackson, at one time acknowledged that quite a bit of the problem was in the Hood. No more. Do the Hood Rats compete with the immigrants for jobs? If all the illegals were suddenly removed from the scene, would the unemployment numbers from the Hood improve?


22 posted on 08/17/2015 7:27:27 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A recent New York Times/CBS News poll just revealed that about 60% of Americans feel race relations are not good. Some 40% think that they will become even worse.

Most people I talk to...think race relations are worse than 60%..not good.

Anyone with any sense...black, white, red, brown...can see.

He's been the worst President ever....for many reasons.

Race relations has been a total failure!!

23 posted on 08/17/2015 7:35:03 PM PDT by Osage Orange (What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.)
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To: JimSEA
If all the illegals were suddenly removed from the scene, would the unemployment numbers from the Hood improve?

Interesting question. Say that every illegal immigrant currently working in the U.S. was deported. Say that the border was secured to the point that additional illegal immigration was statistically insignificant. Say that we still have minimum wage laws that price a lot of labor far above its market value.

I predict a surge of innovation in automation technology, rather than a surge in employment of our presently-unemployed minority/youth population. On the other hand, I also predict a surge in employment and an increase in wages for skilled citizen workers, especially in the construction trades.

24 posted on 08/17/2015 7:35:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick

Agreed.


25 posted on 08/17/2015 7:38:24 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Tax-chick
Say that we still have minimum wage laws that price a lot of labor far above its market value.

Fair assumption. Also, say entitlements that subsidize indolence will continue to make entry into the labor force an unattractive alternative for many.

26 posted on 08/17/2015 7:41:34 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: JimSEA

I think that one place where illegal immigrants are really making an impact in the labor market is in jobs such as construction and restaurant work: skilled jobs that pay above minimum wage, but in which the illegals save employers money because of their lower standard of living and the elimination of government add-ons to the basic wage.

There’s also an impact as sub-minimum-wage providers in areas such as agriculture and cleaning, but, in the conditions I imagined above, those workers would be replaced by automation rather than by native (non)workers who have the option of staying in school indefinitely or going on welfare.


27 posted on 08/17/2015 7:45:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: aposiopetic
say entitlements that subsidize indolence will continue to make entry into the labor force an unattractive alternative for many

Bingo. One element is the supply of below-mandated-wage illegal workers, but another element is the benefits and the long-term schooling that prevent citizens from working in jobs nobody does unless it's a survival necessity.

28 posted on 08/17/2015 7:47:06 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Community organizers don’t build up anything. They destroy mutual confidence in order to gain fake power for the “oppressed.” Only, the black community sees that it is more powerless than ever after this community organizer has done his work.


29 posted on 08/17/2015 7:47:27 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The simple truth is that many previous pro civil rights libs have gotten extremely tired of black complaining and blaming whites for all their problems. Many have either turned into conservatives or at least become very conservative on that issue.

Like Hanson stated, visiting the comments sections of many big city on line papers concerning a crime committed by a black person reveals quite a few people who make less than charitable or sympathetic comments about black people. I think it has become much more difficult for the lib media to fool the average American about the levels of black crime.

I don't know if Colin Flaherty's name is known beyond more than ten percent of the adult population. But the fact that people like Flaherty are brave enough to defy the lib media judges and jury concerning race relations and print the many stories about black crime leads us to believe the situation is getting worse.

30 posted on 08/17/2015 8:05:49 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was by design - part of the “Don’t let a crisis go to waste” meme and the willingness to manufacture crises to leverage.


31 posted on 08/18/2015 3:18:43 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

They answer for their crimes every day as they murder each other at a much higher rate than they murder non-blacks; they’ve become increasingly marginalized and irrelevant, and have increasingly less interaction with non-blacks with every passing day.


32 posted on 08/18/2015 3:51:43 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: driftless2

Libs that have tired of blacks complaining simply push abortion to eliminate them (while pushing open borders to replace them).


33 posted on 08/18/2015 3:53:43 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
I'd like to know how many white libs there are (like Bernie Sanders) who while politely listening to some idiot, black racialist rant on about Evil Whitey, are secretly thinking they're full of sh*t.
34 posted on 08/18/2015 11:21:24 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bkmk


35 posted on 08/18/2015 12:58:24 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: driftless2

They ALL think that; that is why the same white libs will fight to the death to keep abortion legal.


36 posted on 08/18/2015 1:15:07 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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