[Second Amendment First]

Louis Hyman is assistant professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, and American Capitalism: A Reader.

So the high prices in the ghetto are not related to lack of competition, higher insurance rates, economies of scale, higher rates of "shrinkage" or lack of hardworking employees.

I guess they never heard of combat pay.

[ealgeone]

this is easy....

"....we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. " Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

[moehoward]

"They did not experience those places as their own"

Yeah. "They" only looted the 'white owned' business. All the Black owned hair and nail shops came through unscathed. Oh, wait,….

[RginTN]

Most people can sympathize with the anger on display this week in the streets of Baltimore.

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As a black person, I don’t sympathize. Democrat run city and blacks voted for them over and over so why the anger. One gets what one votes for!

[RKBA Democrat]

Wow. Now this article is an example of highly purified, weapons-grade stupidity. You’ll lose 10 points off your IQ just for reading it.

Beware. You’ve been warned.

[ladyjane]

The rioting in Baltimore wasn’t hooliganism.

Dear Mr. Hyman. I would expect you to avoid ethnic slurs such as hooliganism and Paddy wagon. For someone who claims to be sensitive to feelings you are hurting all those from the Hooligan family and all those who named their young male children Patrick. Shame on you.

[griswold3]

“They did not experience those places as their own.”
They heard it straight from the top...’You didn’t build that!’ Meaning Private property does not exist. Expropriate the expropriators!!!

[Vendome]

Because it wasn’t flame retardant.

The retartet ferals couldn’t have knowd dat tho...

[Jeff Chandler]

Article by Louis (Buster) Hyman.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

To rioters whose TVs had been repossessed, however, it must have felt like they were taking back property for which they had already paid for many times over.

The race-grievance industry has spoken. Let's go! MSM employees! Make a note: in all your "reports" say "The items had been paid for and the items were merely being picked up by the owners."

In the 1960s the MSM employees said it was not looting.. it was a form of the layaway plan owing to the fact that evil white merchants were overcharging for everything. The items had been paid for already.

Come on, MSM employees, get with it!

I do wish the race-grievance industry would cite sources for all their "police brutality" claims. With one-sixth the population blacks commit an enormace amount of crime according to federal data.

True statistics (both police records and surveys) here:

The U.S. Department of Justice administers two statistical programs to measure the magnitude, nature, and impact of crime in the nation: the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

-- with one-sixth the population Black American criminals compete with whites vis-a-vis actual numbers of crimes committed. see tables here

[Brooklyn Attitude]

There is always some libtard willing to justify the criminal behavior of the ghetto dwellers.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

There is always some libtard willing to justify the criminal behavior of the ghetto dwellers.

[tophat9000]

Funny in all these riots.. they never loot a book store...

[Nifster]

Liberal insanity...white guilt masquerading as thoughtful exposition.

This is what progressivism produces....drivel and blather trying to pander to those who would rob him blind

[NativeSon]

Is this the new excuse because “racist white cops” fell apart?

[driftless2]

It’s interesting that a very high percentage of commenters refused to swallow the professor’s bullsh.t theory about the goals of the rioters. Maybe even the readers of lib mags like Slate are beginning to see the light. Sometimes a thug is just a thug.

[super7man]

Most people can sympathize with the anger on display this week in the streets of Baltimore.

Well, I guess I'm not most people. I do not understand the source of the anger. These people have been given incredible opportunities but will not take advantage of them. To bad, so sad.

It’s relatively easy to feel compassion for people who’ve suffered police brutality and abject poverty, even if you’ve never experienced either.

I have experienced neither. I worked to put my own way through college. I studied and graduated at the top of my class. I got married and stayed married (35 years and going). Sorry, I have little compassion for those suffering from their own undoing.

[Cen-Tejas]

Hmmm, Dr. Hyman doesn’t use the “Dr.” In his name.

Uh, Dr. Hyman, as a Harvard grad, and being 38, it goes without saying you think you know everything.

Freepers won’t read long posts so let me just say you don’t (know everything).

But, I can’t help but tell you that down here in Texas we have a million “sayings”. And one of them reminds me of you. It goes “ you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make em drink”. In the political affairs of our country, Liberals like you have proved this “saying” valid beyond all doubt.

[GOPJ]

A white liberal elite fantasy...

[GOPJ]

Burning credit records, it was hoped, would erase those debts. Also targeted were so-called “easy credit” appliance stores, which sold shoddy goods, like used televisions, at usurious interest rates. By the late-’60s, televisions were as common in ghetto households as suburban ones. The difference was that ghetto televisions weren’t new, often didn’t work, and almost always cost more.

Everything cost more in the ghetto because black 'leaders' fight to keep big stores like Walmart out... not saying they're on the take or anything - but they're on the take.

[Milton Miteybad]

Mr. Hyman...the CVS in Baltimore burned for a very simple reason.

It burned because people who didn't care one bit about the property of others set fire to it.

That's it, pal. That's all you needed to write. Anything else was completely beside the point.

I'm glad we had this little chat, Mr. Hyman. Please feel free to write if I may be of further assistance.