It must be a magical time to be a racist

christiefan915 said:
This must be a magical time to be a racist. Or a xenophobe. Or a sexist or generic bigot of any sort, really.

With his presumptive ascension to the top of the Republican Party’s presidential ticket, Donald Trump has brought great joy to white men of, let’s say, a certain persuasion. He talks of deportation and closed borders and gladly tosses red meat to Americans who long for the day when there were fewer “others” around. Trump has called these people out from the shadows, lured them from the dark corners of the Internet where racial conspiracy theories take root. He is their avatar, he has won, and this is a time for exaltation.

Conservative radio host Michael Savage, who calls himself a nationalist and has backed Trump from the beginning and preached Trump’s same message for years, told his millions of listeners:

“We are the reason Donald Trump just won the primary. Nobody else. So, pay close attention to this show going forward and you’re liable to hear the real voices of America, as opposed to the fakers on television, like Wolf Blitzer and the others whose names I don’t remember. They are not America. They are not the white men who voted for Trump. … It’s the out-of-work factory worker in Indiana who voted for Donald Trump. The poor guy who was disenfranchised from his own nation by the impostor in the White House. (The media) don’t dare say one word about what (Obama) has done and is doing to the poor white man in this country, which would explain, in great part, why Donald Trump just triumphed.”

It’s a magical time, I suppose, to be that disenfranchised white man.

Read the gleeful words of caucasian-enthusiast Pat Buchanan speaking to NPR on Thursday about the ills of diversity: “Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.” Asked what an America without cultural diversity would be like, he said: “It’s an America like the country I grew up in, which was a pretty good country.”

This must be a relief for folks who espouse Buchanan’s “Americans of European descent”-centric views. It must be glorious for them to hear Savage describe Mexican and black protesters as “vermin,” and to see Trump not flinch when a supporter sucker punches a black man at a rally...

This really must be a magical time to be a racist.

But it's a sad and somewhat terrifying time to be everyone else.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...mp-racist-buchanan-huppke-20160506-story.html
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Not true! It's actually the greatest time in our nations history for comedy. I haven't as much fun and laughed so hard in my life since Trump entered the GOP race and the comedy just keeps on coming. Just think...we have 6 more months of it. Heck we might have 4 and half more years of it. Only in America! :)
 
cawacko said:
There is no magic approach. But raising the minimum wage is a good way to reduce jobs for those in the inner city. There's a whole litany of things that need to be done
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Supply side nonsense. Studies and historical evidence have shown that the exact opposite occurs. More money is put into circulation and more jobs are created.
 
christiefan915 said:
Here's something you might appreciate Cawacko, a study from Ohio State.

POVERTY, NOT RACE, TIED TO HIGH CRIME RATES IN URBAN COMMUNITIES

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Violent crime rates have more to do with poverty levels in a neighborhood than with the race of local residents, new research has found.

A study of Columbus neighborhoods found that violent crime rates in extremely disadvantaged white neighborhoods were very similar to rates in comparable Black neighborhoods. The violent crime rate in highly disadvantaged Black areas was 22 per 1,000 residents, not much different from the 20 per 1,000 rate in similar white communities.

There are still many people who mistakenly believe there is something about Black neighborhoods that make them more violent and prone to crime, said Lauren Krivo, co-author of the study and associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University.

Our research shows that neighborhoods with the most crime tend to be those with the highest rates of poverty and other types of disadvantage -- regardless of whether they are predominantly Black or white.

In this study, overall rates of violence were nearly three times as high in Black neighborhoods as in white neighborhoods. But that's because Black neighborhoods are much more likely than white ones to be highly disadvantaged, she said.

Krivo conducted the study with Ruth Peterson, a professor of sociology at Ohio State. Their study was published in the current issue of the journal Social Forces.

https://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/badcomm.htm
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I can vouch for that in personal experience. I've been jumped in the New Rome and South Parsons area, which are mostly poor and white. It's no safer there than east main street or in the bottoms (mostly black).
 
cawacko said:
No, I'm saying when you raise the rate higher there will generally be less jobs at those rates which creates the higher barrier to entry. The number of people you can higher, and would take on a risk on hiring, at $7 is much more than at $15/hr. So the people that don't get hired are those "at risk"
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Can you prove this?
It hasn't happened that way in the past.
 
cawacko said:
It's not a lie though. There are not a lot of poor white people that live in big cities. They tend to live in suburban and rural areas. So crime in big cities is largely committed by blacks and Hispanics. That's just fact.
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Yea well the crime rate in the trailer parks and section 8 housing in the rural areas I grew up in were just as bad on a per capita basis and it's virtually all white. Christie's right. Crime rates are more closely associated with poverty than ethnicity.
 
cawacko said:
The highest unemployment rates belong to young minority males, those we often deem "at risk". The higher the minimum wage the larger the delta is for those young men's skill and the value of their work. So basically a higher rate becomes a barrier to entry.

For many in that "at risk" category they often see more people going to work in the streets each day than a nine to five job. So holding down a job and learning responsibility is an important part of their development. But again, at higher rates they don't get that opportunity.
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Except you have no data to prove that. There's lots of data to show that adjusting the minimum wage for inflation would act as an economic stimulus and unlike supply side voodoo there's actually evidence to support that.
 
christiefan915 said:
Blacks also.

"Trump went on to tweet that the “overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and [H]ispanics” and invited his Twitter followers to discuss the “tough subject.”
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so why didn't you discuss the tough subject instead of denying the truth?......most of the violent crime in our major cities IS committed by blacks and Hispanics........
 
Rana said:
You get real, there are urban renewal projects that work, your bias just doesn't allow you to see that it does and has happened.
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About time you saw anaata for what he really is.
Still supporting O'Malley huh anaata?
 
christiefan915 said:
I don't understand. Minimum means smallest possible. Are you saying young black men can't even qualify for the minimum as burger flippers or car washers? Are they supposed to work for less than minimum?
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No, he's saying an increase in the minimum wage would put more young black men out of work. There's little evidence to support his assertion and lots of evidence to the contrary. That increasing the minimum wage would act as an economic stimulus and would create more jobs by putting more money in circulation.
 
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