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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]aren't white people kicking blacks out of inner cities?

the reason it was racist by paul ryan is because he later followed up with saying rural america has a problem too and then said it was due to a lack of jobs.

if he said inner cities and rural america faced the same challenges, then it would've been race neutral.

but he made city mouse out to be lazy and country mouse just out of luck. [/quote]

Exactly!!! The inner city black kids are lazy and don't want to or value work while the the Mississippi trailer welfare dad that likes to drink beer all day and molest his step daughter (white) is out of luck because XYZ manufacturing went away 20 years ago to China.  Yes I know there are non blacks in the inner city just like there are blacks in trailers, but let's be real here, we all speak that language and if your don't you're in denial.[/quote]

They're both out of luck but the issue is of what you do about that bad luck.  In those old broken down manufacturing communities anyone with a clue moved on to other towns with better prospects.  We have people sitting around whining that there's no jobs and no opportunities even as millions of illegal immigrants come all the way here from places like Honduras and El Salvador with nothing but the shirt on their back, who ARE able to find jobs in construction, in restaurants, et cetera.  And they are jobs that not only pay for food and a roof over their heads but also provide enough money for them to be able to send a big chunk of it home to their families in central America.  That's millions of jobs that were there for the taking for Americans - but Americans turned their noses up at them.  I had my share of hard times too, had to work 2 and 3 jobs at a time, went for stretches where I barely had $7 a week to put food on the table, had to move several times because I couldn't afford to live where I was or had to move because work was drying up, so the whining and excuse-making that I constantly hear is really just a bunch of pure crap to me.[/quote]

Poor people take jobs in construction and restaurants.  I don't know what you are talking about, "turned their noses up".   I doubt that city people would move across the country and become migrant farm workers, but that's about it.[/quote]

Some do.  But many don't and don't even try- or the only trying they do is to game the system.  And worse yet we have plenty who do try but can't manage to get a job, because they didn't put enough effort into school to get enough skills to even be able to fill out a job application on their own.  Or, they do get the job but there's poor work ethic, habitual tardiness, bad attitude, et cetera - even if they get the job they have a hard time holding on to it because they have zilch where it comes to the basics of what a workplace needs.  I know bosses who end up doing things like bailing their employees out of jail when they get in trouble and so on - but many don't have the patience for that.  So many different levels of problems to deal with.  So many different solutions that need to be looked at.  But denial of these things is definitely not a solution nor something anyone should be wasting their time on.[/quote]

Some do, many don't and don't even try.  OK, this is a generalization you can run a truck through.  Most people want jobs and try to get them.  They may not be good at getting them or keeping them, but they want to work.  Most people in Ward 8, the poorest ward of DC, have jobs.  So you can't tell me that there is a culture of not wanting to work when 80% of them are already working.  The culture is to be employed.[/quote]

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