I do agree this is "whitey's fault" -- white Democrat liberal politicians fault.
Posted on 12/20/2015 5:04:30 AM PST by Libloather
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Then consider this: Lead paint exposure is a widespread national problem, concentrated most heavily in the nation's low-income communities. And government efforts to remove lead paint from public and privately owned housing remains woefully below levels that most child and environmental health experts think truly necessary to eliminate the issue. In fact, the nation's lead paint abatement programs are among those that experienced a budget cut due to sequestration and subsequent federal cost reduction efforts.
And that happened even though some public health experts believe that concerted national efforts to reduce widespread lead exposure - such as removing lead from gasoline - might be at least partially responsible for the precipitous drop in the nation's crime rate over the past two decades.
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Today, Gray's high school is what researchers at the University of California Los Angles have described as an "apartheid school," where in 2011 - the most recent comprehensive federal data available - less than 1 percent of the student body is white and 98.7 percent black. Nearly half of the school's teachers were absent from work more than 10 days during that same school year, nearly 20 percent were inexperienced and teaching for the first time, and just more than 79 percent of students came from families poor enough to receive free and reduced-price meals.
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No justice, no peace.
So in other words, it’s whitie’s fault. Always is.
Somebody else’s fault. Whitie is the easiest to blame...because they can get away with it.
The Washington Compost blames his environment for his criminality.
I blame himself and also his parents (”Like begets like” as my 7th grade science/genetics text said).
A corollary is Hillary shrieking about Trump’s tough stance on terrorism as a recruitment tool for ISIS. Libthink for cause and effect. For progressives the only people responsible for everything that goes wrong are patriots.
Would you think possibly that increased numbers of concealed weapons would maybe have a more direct influence on the reduced crime rate in the last 20 years than lead based paint?
His parents heroin dealing also might have more to do with his criminality than lead in the paint, just maybe.
I blame 50 years of ‘Rat governence of their Urban Utopias.
It is lead in paint that turns normal humans into thugs.
I also blame lax border security for drug prevelance.
Well, he DID die from lead poisoning...sorta
I do agree this is "whitey's fault" -- white Democrat liberal politicians fault.
No wait...that was the “gentle giant”.
It sounds like Gray and anyone else in that neighborhood is, literally, better off dead. Instead of cop trials there should be a raft of humanitarian awards...seriously.
Was he in the habit of eating lead paint chips?
I’ve posted before about the rise in welfare babies by whites; the birthrate of taxpaying whites is minimal - practically 0.
Even if lead paint affected his brain tremendously, the fault still lies with his parents. A child would have to eat chips of paint to damage his brain. Poor housekeeping and lack of supervision are what hurt him.
My in-laws raised nine children, old house with (I’m sure) lead paint and they spent most of their lives below the poverty line. No welfare, a clean house and attentive parents, all children are now law abiding citizens.
“..And in the public housing units where Gray lived, lead-infused paint was peeling from the walls and the windowsills with such intensity that before his 2nd birthday, Gray tested positive for concentrations of lead in his blood more than seven times the level that child health experts now believe can cause severe and permanent brain damage....”
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Note that Freddie lived in PUBLIC (as in Government owned and operated) HOUSING which had the lead paint peeling. The government that ran that public housing during Freddie’s life (and, actually, long before his birth) was ‘RAT government usually led by black mayors and black city counsels. So blame the ‘RATS, Washington Post — if you insist upon excusing Freddie’s criminality.
Today, Gray's high school is what researchers at the University of California Los Angles have described as an "apartheid school," where in 2011 - the most recent comprehensive federal data available - less than 1 percent of the student body is white and 98.7 percent black.
Why is 99% black a bad thing and why is 99% white considered white privilege?
Most statistics show we spend as much or more on majority black schools.
As always, there are unspoken facts that can't be discussed.
So his mother couldn’t read, dropped out of school after the 8th grade and was a heroin user but it is the fault of failed government? She’s been handled since birth - free schooling she didn’t take advantage of, free housing and food yet she could find a way to purchase heroin.
Lead paint in house paint was phased out in 1960. Assuming the last of it was used up by 1965, this means that the only circumstances in which buildings more than 50 years old still have lead paint is if it was painted over, or if they are in a terrible state of disrepair.
Importantly, about the only way you can get the lead out of this paint is either by eating paint chips, or when it is sanded, to inhale a lot of dust. Otherwise, it is unlikely to be an issue, compared to leaded gasoline, which itself was phased out for automobiles in the mid-1970s. Though lead additive could be purchased for those engines, mostly lawnmowers, that needed it, for a time.
Nearly all homes built prior to the 1980s still have lead solder connecting copper pipes.
Some major U.S. cities still have 100 percent lead piping bringing water from the utilities to homes and businesses. The dissolved oxygen in the water combines with the metal at the surface (copper, zinc or lead) to form a metal oxide. This oxidation layer naturally develops through the decades to coat lead piping. When water conditions require it, water utilities also add lime or orthophosphates as a further barrier to prevent lead from getting into drinking water. When water chemistry is carefully controlled, it prevents dangerous levels of lead from entering the drinking water system from the pipes.
In 1995 the United States banned the use of lead solder on food cans. But lead solder can still be found on cans made in other countries. These cans usually have wide seams, and the silver-gray solder along the seams contains the lead. Cans containing lead may be brought to the United States and sold.
China finally banned the use of lead paint on toys and other items in 2007.
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