Posted on 08/28/2019 8:32:18 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Councilman Argues Power Washers are Racist, Since Hoses Used Against Blacks in Past
Seattle has a human feces problem on their streets and sidewalks. But the city council cannot agree on how to remove the crap.
Councilmember Larry Gossett
Councilmember Larry Gossett says power-washing the sidewalks bring up images of using hoses against civil rights activists.
The Seattle News reported:
Some committee members expressed concern about addressing the symptoms of the area’s problems without getting to the cause. Councilmember Larry Gossett said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.
Another council member, Claudia Balducci, suggested that the county consider using social-service employees in partnership with police.
Wait a minute! Is the esteemed councilman equating civil rights activists with $h!t?
And sentencing the perps to 90 days community service scrubbing said sidewalks, too.
Good observation. I have been saying for some time that you cannot do satire anymore, because it has to be distinguishable from reality in some way.
Isn’t Seattle supposed to be all high tech?
Nobody there can build a poop cleaning robot?
I’ve watched that robot fight show.
Flamethrowers.....spinning blades.....scoops.....
Bookmark under “you can’t make up this sh*t”
The winter rains must have washed the streets clean. I’m surprised this hasn’t been addressed as an environmental issue. Rain, storm drains....hello Puget Sound. I don’t think I’d be doing any clamming, or eating any Seattle-area farmed oysters.
Hope his house doesn’t catch on fire
It just gets better!
A friendly divorce of races is the only solution to our race problems. Let each side go their own way.
We will never be able to peacefully coexist together.
Loved that movie.
While traveling through Baltimore in the mid 50s, I remember my Mom remarking about the housewives of that city being known for doing just that. Evidently being known for their scrubbed white stoops was a source of pride for the town.
I have a basset hound who shitz more than he eats. I use one of those little dog rakes and rake it into the matching pan, then throw it in the woods. I’m sure Seattle could find 100 social justice warriors to pick up shit in the name of Karl Marx.
The first step to remove the human crap from the sidewalks in Seattle is to remove the human crap from the city council chambers in Seattle. Put some non-pinkos in there and I’m sure that sidewalks will get cleaned.
“Does Larry ‘genius’ Gossett have a proposed solution or is he just part of the problem?”
Well, poop is usually some shade of brown. Therefore, it must be handled with kid gloves. And not by white people, either. That would definitely be racesssss!
And, in those famed Baltimore blocks with the white scrubbed steps, the families were mostly working-class, with the fathers going out to work in factories or for the B&O Railroad, and the moms staying at home with the kids. They didn't have a lot, but they had the necessities, and they took care of what they had.
As for what changed, the rising tide of affluence in the post-WW2 years meant a lot of the children of those parents were able to go to college. Many of those kids, myself included, were the first college graduates in their families of origin. During that period, car culture also rose, as Eisenhower initiated the building of the interstate road systems. Not long after this picture was taken, the beatnick and Red Diaper communist underground was active; and by twenty years after that photo, the beginnings of the Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll "youth rebellion" were stirring. Kids didn't want to stay home and work in the factory. Girls didn't want to grow up to be "just a housewife," because the second-wave feminists were already haranguing them that it was a waste of their brilliance, and an oppression by patriarchal, chauvinist males.
AND lawsuits in the early 60s made their way to the Supreme Court to legalize the distribution of artificial birth control to the unmarried; a series of other SCOTUS decisions destroyed the social supports for marriage, for saving sex for marriage, and for fathers taking responsibility for supporting their offspring, both white fathers as well as black fathers. Women's lib, you know. SCOTUS also passed the rulings taking prayer from schools and allowing profanity and obscenity to fluorish. Free speech, you know.
That's just the main points of what changed.
When I look at that beautiful woman in the photo in a modest house dress she may have made herself on her Singer sewing machine, she typifies the young adults of those bygone days, when marriage was a rite of passage to adult responsibilty and parenthood was a sacred obligation, and modesty for men as well as women was a source of dignity. Messing up in those arenas was considered disgraceful and shameful to your parents and community.
The only time we see women dressed so gracefully these days is when Melania Trump makes an appearance.
Good summation. I would add the pernicious effect of government “help” starting with “urban renewal” in the 1950s and LBJ’s “Great Society” in the 1960s which destroyed families; the immigration changes in the 1960s that de-emphasized European immigration; and WW II which put millions of women to work manufacturing materiel and showed them other paths besides being a housewife. Cataclysmic wars breed hedonism afterwards which created the path to the sixties rebellions.
Those were well-known Polish-American neighborhoods in Baltimore.
when they catch one in the act, rub their nose in it like a dog
Exactly.
Wonder what this moron would say if that were done?
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