OWS, Only Whites Need Apply

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Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009, black households lost just over half of their median net worth compared with white families, who lost 16 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.

However, these numbers have not translated into action. A few prominent African Americans, such as Cornel West, Russell Simmons, Kanye West and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), have made appearances at Occupy protests. “Occupy the Hood,” a recent offshoot, has tried to get more people of color involved. But the main movement remains overwhelmingly white: A Fast Company survey last month found that African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.


African Americans share white Americans’ anger about corporate greed and corruption, and blacks have a rich history of protesting injustice in United States. So why aren’t they Occupying?


“Occupy Wall Street was started by whites and is about their concern with their plight,” Nathalie Thandiwe, a radio host and producer for WBAI in New York, said in an interview. “Now that capitalism isn’t working for ‘everybody,’ some are protesting.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...all-street/2011/11/16/gIQAwc3FwN_story_1.html


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who gives a shit anyways? they are a bunch of lazy shits crying while sitting on their lazy asses wanting a check from the gov.
 
webbway said:
Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009, black households lost just over half of their median net worth compared with white families, who lost 16 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.

However, these numbers have not translated into action. A few prominent African Americans, such as Cornel West, Russell Simmons, Kanye West and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), have made appearances at Occupy protests. “Occupy the Hood,” a recent offshoot, has tried to get more people of color involved. But the main movement remains overwhelmingly white: A Fast Company survey last month found that African Americans, who are 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.


African Americans share white Americans’ anger about corporate greed and corruption, and blacks have a rich history of protesting injustice in United States. So why aren’t they Occupying?


“Occupy Wall Street was started by whites and is about their concern with their plight,” Nathalie Thandiwe, a radio host and producer for WBAI in New York, said in an interview. “Now that capitalism isn’t working for ‘everybody,’ some are protesting.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...all-street/2011/11/16/gIQAwc3FwN_story_1.html


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More race baiting from our racist resident in chief.
 
LOL Good point Web. We don't see many black faces in occupy camps, yet the same folks here who blasted the TEA events are silent about this.
 
poet said:
More race baiting from our racist resident in chief.
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LOL. What's the matter? Don't like it when your own sleazy tactics are used against you? LOL. We are gonna kick your lying faggot ass next year and we're gonna use your own tactics to do it.
 
Mr. T said:
who gives a shit anyways? they are a bunch of lazy shits crying while sitting on their lazy asses wanting a check from the gov.
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They can't sit on their lazy asses. The Police even confiscate their camping chairs. How low can the capitalists go? :crybaby:
 
Isn't that predictable? DY and Freedom "groaned' my pointing out that the OP was race baiting on the part of Webbway...birds of a feather....
 
Personally, I think most of the OWS people are white trust-fund kids who've never had to work a day in their life. With a cold winter approaching, they'll be back at their folks' gated homes sipping hot chocolate in no time flat.

That said, several of their complaints are legitimate. The middle class is shrinking, and with millions of jobs being outsourced, millions people feel as though they're running out of options. Although I am a conservative, I also acknowledge that the shrinking middle class is a problem. Some choose to bury their head in the sand; I am not one of them.

Part of the problem is big academia, which lies about job opportunities associated with a given degree. As a result, many young people graduate with a degree that is almost entirely useless. What we need is an education system that focuses more on developing marketable skills. I haven't even finished my bachelor's degree, but I'm earning a good salary with the skills that I developed on my own time...and that's working for a government entity which pays much less than the market rate. Which brings me to my second point: college isn't for everyone (although I fully intend to finish my degree).

If the US is going to be competitive well into the 21st century, we're going to have to dramatically restructure our education system. If we're going to seriously tackle the gap between the middle class and the super wealthy, we're going to have to repeal policies that favor the super wealthy. A good start would be putting and end to the Federal Reserve and returning our money system to the free market.
 
Emperor Antoninus Pius said:
Personally, I think most of the OWS people are white trust-fund kids who've never had to work a day in their life. With a cold winter approaching, they'll be back at their folks' gated homes sipping hot chocolate in no time flat.

That said, several of their complaints are legitimate. The middle class is shrinking, and with millions of jobs being outsourced, millions people feel as though they're running out of options. Although I am a conservative, I also acknowledge that the shrinking middle class is a problem. Some choose to bury their head in the sand; I am not one of them.

Part of the problem is big academia, which lies about job opportunities associated with a given degree. As a result, many young people graduate with a degree that is almost entirely useless. What we need is an education system that focuses more on developing marketable skills. I haven't even finished my bachelor's degree, but I'm earning a good salary with the skills that I developed on my own time...and that's working for a government entity which pays much less than the market rate. Which brings me to my second point: college isn't for everyone (although I fully intend to finish my degree).

If the US is going to be competitive well into the 21st century, we're going to have to dramatically restructure our education system. If we're going to seriously tackle the gap between the middle class and the super wealthy, we're going to have to repeal policies that favor the super wealthy. A good start would be putting and end to the Federal Reserve and returning our money system to the free market.
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They go home at night, leaving behind empty tents to make a good show...

There was a dude that went with a infrared heat camera and proved that over 90% of the tents at one of the venues were empty.
 
Also, anything Webb says regarding race is something that I take with a grain of salt...he has been proven to be a racist scumbag time and time again.
 
DamnYankee said:
LOL Good point Web. We don't see many black faces in occupy camps, yet the same folks here who blasted the TEA events are silent about this.
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Like you've ever seen an OWS camp.


TEA (Taxed Enough Already) is based on a lie. The rich aren't taxed enough.


The righties love to spin the Koch story - 47% of Americans pay no federal income tax. The rich pay most of the income taxes.


The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and similar conservative marketing organizations tell us relentlessly that lower tax rates will make us all better off.


The theory goes like this:


Lower tax rates will encourage more investment, which in turn will mean more jobs and greater prosperity—so much so that tax revenues will go up, despite lower rates.


Except it hasn't happened.


It’s true that the top 1 percent of wage earners paid 38 percent of the federal income taxes in 2008 (the most recent year for which data is available).


But people forget that the income tax is less than half of federal taxes and only one-fifth of taxes at all levels of government.


Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance taxes (known as payroll taxes) are paid mostly by the bottom 90 percent of wage earners.


That’s because, once you reach $106,800 of income, you pay no more for Social Security, though the much smaller Medicare tax applies to all wages.


Warren Buffett pays the exact same amount of Social Security taxes as someone who earns $106,800.


But if the rich pay most of the federal income tax, aren't they taxed enough?


No. The ultra-rich pay far less as a percentage of their income than middle-class and poor taxpayers do, and the gap between the rich and poor is growing. The middle class is shrinking.


In fact, thanks to Republicans, one in three Americans will pay higher taxes this year than they did last year.


Despite skyrocketing incomes, the federal tax burden on the richest 400 has been slashed, thanks to a variety of loopholes, allowable deductions and other tools.


The actual share of their income paid in taxes, according to the IRS, is 16.6 percent.


Adding payroll taxes barely nudges that number.


Compare that to the vast majority of Americans, whose share of their income going to federal taxes increased from 13.1 percent in 1961 to 22.5 percent in 2007.


Millions of the poor do not make enough to owe income taxes.


The 99% pay lots of taxes—just not lots of federal income taxes. they still pay plenty of other taxes, including federal payroll taxes.


Between gas taxes, sales taxes, utility and other taxes, no one lives tax-free in America.


When it comes to state and local taxes, the poor bear a heavier burden than the rich in every state except Vermont.


In Alabama the burden on the poor is more than twice that of the top 1 percent. The one-fifth of Alabama families making less than $13,000 pay almost 11 percent of their income in state and local taxes, compared with less than 4 percent for those who make $229,000 or more.

Despite all the noise that America has the world’s second-highest corporate tax rate, the actual taxes paid by corporations are falling because of the growing number of loopholes and companies shifting profits to tax havens like the Cayman Islands.



The 2004 American Jobs Creation Act, which passed with bipartisan support, allowed more than 800 companies to bring profits that were untaxed but overseas back to the United States. Instead of paying the usual 35 percent tax, the companies paid just 5.25 percent.


The companies said bringing the money home—“repatriating” it, they called it—would mean lots of jobs. Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican, put the figure at 660,000 new jobs.


Pfizer, the drug company, was the biggest beneficiary. It brought home $37 billion, saving $11 billion in taxes. Almost immediately it started firing people. Since the law took effect, Pfizer has let 40,000 workers go. In all, it appears that at least 100,000 jobs were destroyed.





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http://wweek.com/portland/article-17350-9_things_the_rich_dont_want_you_to_know_about_taxes.html
 
I've observed and talked with people at Occupy Seattle and Occupy San Francisco. I saw a few people of Hispanic descent at OSF, but in Seattle I'd say somewhere around 90 - 90% of the protesters were white. I've had pleasant discussions with them, and we agree on many things...even if we don't exactly agree on the solution.

I'm not sure why there are so few African Americans protesting. Perhaps they're out looking for work? People of color are generally more willing to take any job just to get by, whereas young white people are more likely to feel that entry level jobs are somehow "beneath" them.

A value that my parents instilled in me is that no job is beneath me; what matters is that I do my very best. I had to work a lot of low-paying jobs before I landed my current job. This is a foreign concept to many young people, particularly white young people, I'd say.
 
Prob mostly recent graduates, new poor shocked with the reality of no more long sofa days and video games.

Like My sig line says Rich have been long giving it to the poor, always have always will.
Not unique to America, Unique to the most priviledged group on kids ever.
 
DamnYankee said:
Looks like many agree with me. :D
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Looks like "many" = Dolt and TopDoper with zero evidence to support your claim.

Want to try again?

Maybe you can get some more intellectual giants like Blabo and doublewide Dixie to join your Coalition of the Witless.
 
\(())/ said:
Looks like "many" = Dolt and TopDoper with zero evidence to support your claim.

Want to try again?

Maybe you can get some more intellectual giants like Blabo and doublewide Dixie to join your Coalition of the Witless.
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Oh look, ad homs. :D
 
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