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Who do you blame for the problems of African Americans?? [W:98]

Who is MOST to blame for the problems of African Americans?

  • GOP

    Votes: 5 5.1%
  • Black Leadership

    Votes: 22 22.4%
  • Democrats

    Votes: 15 15.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 56 57.1%

  • Total voters
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That has never been a part of the GOP platform.

:roll: Guess again.

The drug was is primarily being waged by inner city Democrat administrations.

It is certainly a heavy part of their rhetoric.

Actually, that was implemented federally under the Reagan administration, and blacks are jailed extremely disproportionately to both the percentage of drug users they comprise, and the percentage of drug users brought to trial.
 
Not true. Sixty years ago, the Japanese were the most hated race in America and we did our best to exterminate them.

Maybe on Parallel Earth. On this earth we did not.
 
It is certainly a heavy part of their rhetoric.

Actually, that was implemented federally under the Reagan administration, and blacks are jailed extremely disproportionately to both the percentage of drug users they comprise, and the percentage of drug users brought to trial.

Did you just infer that the federal justice system used race as a determinant criterion in incarceration?
 
The rise of single motherhood as the default African American family model undoubtedly played a large role in this as well.
Maybe...some were white too....

Born in Uvalde, Texas, she had a tumultuous early life. She was born in 1912 to T. Hillman Smith and Bettie Sue Wood, and was named Lucille Wood Smith at birth; the name was changed to Frances Octavia Smith while she was still an infant.
At age 14, she eloped with her first husband, Thomas F. Fox, to whom she bore one son, Thomas F. Fox, Jr., when she was 15. A year later, she found herself in Memphis, Tennessee, a single parent, pursuing a career in music. She landed a job with local radio stations (WMC and WREC), singing and playing piano.Divorced in 1929,
Whew, that was close! She almost had a child out of wedlock.

There's a few others too.
 
Did you just infer that the federal justice system used race as a determinant criterion in incarceration?

It was certainly in the back of their minds, yes, given the drugs they targeted, the reasons they did so, and the differences in how the justice system tends to sentence blacks vs. whites.
 
It is certainly a heavy part of their rhetoric.
No.

Actually, that was implemented federally under the Reagan administration, and blacks are jailed extremely disproportionately to both the percentage of drug users they comprise, and the percentage of drug users brought to trial.
It is implemented by Democrats. The GOP did not arrest a kazillion people for crack last year, or any year.

It is the Democrats at war against the citizens of the USA.
 
No.

It is implemented by Democrats. The GOP did not arrest a kazillion people for crack last year, or any year.

It is the Democrats at war against the citizens of the USA.

"I don't care if objective facts say I'm wrong! The GOP are the superhero good guys NO MATTER WHAT! Waahhh..."

:lol:

Sorry, dude. That was Reagan.
 
In this day and age, any problems the black community or any other groups has (I don't know what the OP is specifically referring to) are their own doing.
 
African Americans, of course.
 
In this day and age, any problems the black community or any other groups has (I don't know what the OP is specifically referring to) are their own doing.
Ah, the old "racism has ended" argument.
 
"I don't care if objective facts say I'm wrong! The GOP are the superhero good guys NO MATTER WHAT! Waahhh..."

:lol:

Sorry, dude. That was Reagan.
Who did Reagan arrest for crack possession in Detroit in the last year??????

:lamo
 
In this day and age, any problems the black community or any other groups has (I don't know what the OP is specifically referring to) are their own doing.

Anyone who thinks that forcibly removing a people from their home and systematically dismantling their names, language, belief system and family structure isn't going to have disastrous generations-long consequences is kidding themselves at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.
 
Anyone who thinks that systematically dismantling a people's names, language, belief system and family structure isn't going to have disastrous generations-long consequences is kidding themselves at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.

That's nice. Thank you for sharing your opinion with me, even though I didn't ask for it.
 
That goes both ways, unfortunately. There are plenty of African Americans out there who look at Caucasians as being "white" first and fellow citizens second.

That's not "going both ways" because when blacks do it, it is socially meaningless to white people.
 
I blame the same people that I blame for any issues of these sort - the people themselves. There is NO reason for anyone to live in poverty their whole lives. Choices are what matter, not what the world throws at you. You can rise above your circumstances and be a success if you choose to make the effort to do so.
 
I blame the same people that I blame for any issues of these sort - the people themselves. There is NO reason for anyone to live in poverty their whole lives. Choices are what matter, not what the world throws at you. You can rise above your circumstances and be a success if you choose to make the effort to do so.

Here, you get this too.

Anyone who thinks that forcibly removing a people from their home and systematically dismantling their names, language, belief system and family structure isn't going to have disastrous generations-long consequences is kidding themselves at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.
 
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