tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post2278515073071944678..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: Civil Rights Movement Rebirth in 2014-15Mike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-21794855148268479302015-01-08T20:17:27.463-06:002015-01-08T20:17:27.463-06:00Norma,
Thanks for your comments, but I think you&#...Norma,<br />Thanks for your comments, but I think you've been spending too much time tuned in to Rush and O'Reilly. You echo their racist cliches and buzzwords so easily.<br /><br />Yes, there is a widening income gap. It's nothing to dismiss. The U.S. Has The Worst Income Inequality In The Developed World. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/income-inequality-wall-street_n_3762422.html <br /><br />Or hadn't you noticed? That's not good for any society (including those of us who are more fortunate). Being the wealthiest country in the world with the world's biggest prison population is a fundamental contradiction a recipe for disaster in the years ahead. <br /><br />And if your point is that poor (black) folks commit more crime (or at least do more time) of course you're right. Another great argument to eradicating (especially concentrated) poverty. That, not after-the-face policing and saturating the prisons, is the way towards society's salvation. <br /><br />I won't spend any more time taking on your backward racial views. You've got all the lingo down pat, ie. "grievance guys like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson", etc... It would be funny if not so sad. You refer to the movement for equity and equal opportunity simply as "wealth transfer." A complete misunderstanding of the last 200 years of history. <br /><br />Open your eyes and mind Norma. Keep reading SmallTalk and sharing your opinions. <br /><br />Mike Klonskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-54859199617472909042015-01-08T19:41:53.024-06:002015-01-08T19:41:53.024-06:00If this is a new civil rights movement, what do th...If this is a new civil rights movement, what do they hope to accomplish? More divisions and hate which benefits the organizers but not the protesters? What issues have been raised? The well funded leadership seems to know how to organize and keep their youthful protégés in the dark. It can't be about policing because the DoJ reports that current methods have cut crime drastically and saved many black lives. It can't be slogans like "black lives matter" since they obviously don't matter with the abortion rate for blacks being the leading cause of death, and blacks murder more people than whites, and most of those they kill are also black. It isn't education, because college enrollments rates are doing very well for minorities, better than for whites. Obama has bombed at jobs, and not sure the "organizers" are the least bit interested anyway, because if people are working they have no time to swarm in the streets and interrupt restaurants and ceremonies honoring veterans. Now they might think about marriage rates since a child's chances of being raised in poverty are quite high without married parents, but I really don't think anyone can turn that around. More wealth transfer? We've got 126 programs at the federal level--more at the state and local. 50 years of a War on Poverty? Income gap? The wealthiest households in the U.S. are Asian, not white. Health? Hispanics have a longer life expectancy than either blacks or whites. More corporate shakedowns to benefit the grievance guys like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? How has that benefitted the black community? An army of Tweets .Normahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11502895616873273470noreply@blogger.com