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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was in Oakland, but is evidence that ANYONE can be a victim of crime.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/BarbaraBoxer/status/1419784140904337410[/twitter][/quote]

Property crime. No one cares. Buy a new phone.[/quote]

I cannot believe you think this is NBD.  [/quote]

Because it *is* NBD. It’s a penny-ante street robbery. Something like that probably happens a dozen times a day in DC. You don’t hear about it because it’s ….. wait for it …….. No Big Deal.

If something like that bothers you, you aren’t cut out for living in a city. Move to some exurb if you wanna be in Mayberry USA. [/quote]

So if you don’t want extremely elderly people to get punched and their belongings stolen, you shouldn’t live in the city? Seriously what is wrong with some of you? Someone who is almost 90 years old could be killed by that kind of assault. [/quote]

A much better solution is dismantling the structural racism that forces young men into committing crimes of opportunity because they have no other options. And as a younger white person, I’m not going to shed any tears for an old white person having their phone taken because they belong to a generation that perpetuated the racist systems we’re dealing with now. They made their beds, they can sleep in them. [/quote]

“Structural racism” isn’t forcing anyone to assault and rob others. A morally bankrupt culture fostered by the breakup of families, along with an entitlement mindset, does. And your comments are vile racism at its worst. [/quote]

You show that it's easier to blame people than policy.  Policies that have not allowed black people adequate housing, the ability to gain wealth, etc.  Black people have had to work 25 times harder to get ahead.  We didn't have the benefit of all of the programs that created a white middle class.  If we had, I wonder how much further we would be.  Oh I'm sorry, I guess black people have to pull themselves up by their boot straps, but white people got a whole government push.[/quote]

Can you be so kind as to give us a cite for the assertion that [all] black people have had to work 25 times harder than [all] to get ahead?

Would you also be so kind as to list for us all of the “programs” that “created a white middle class?”

Because I think you’re laboring under some severe factual misapprehensions and confabulations.

The only racial preference programs I’m aware of, at least since 1968, were directed at blacks.

The “white middle class” was in part the result of the GI Bills, as equally available to blacks as whites.

Your reference to “us” suggests that all blacks are, and always have been, in an identical educational, financial and social position. That is far from true. Long before desegregation there were numerous highly successful black professionals, merchants and other workers. The “Great Society” programs of the ‘60’s did everything possible to undermine black independence in the interest of encouraging bloc voting for the party that was responsible for “Jim Crow” laws after emancipation.

My own story certainly contradicts your assumptions about “white privilege.”  My ancestors came on a boat and were discriminated against and made fun of and encouraged not to emerge from insular ethnic ghettos. My father risked his life crawling down a coal hole. I pumped gas in every kind of weather, had my life threatened nearly every day, and survived repeated robberies. I worked my way to a professional career, and the only program I benefited from was student loans, certainly at least available to minorities as they were to me.

There certainly are plenty of black people who have accumulated plenty of wealth. Leaving aside Robert Johnson, Oprah and various entertainers, take a look at Prince Georges County. Plenty of black occupied homes there that are way nicer than where I grew up.

The constant refrain that somebody else is responsible for the criminal acts of violent, depraved, malicious felons is a lie that seeks to put one segment of society above the law as a putative remedy for past hurts of mostly long dead people. The “noble class” immunity from the law ended with the French Revolution, if not earlier.

And ultimately, whoever is “responsible” for the crimes of felons, the felons need to be off the streets. [/quote]

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