Jesse Jackson…just when you think he’s vanished for good he comes back down to our planet to say something stupid. This time he’s going on about how the Cavilers owner is a racist. Why is every comment that has to do with a white man to a black man have to be racist to this guy? Look, if this guy thinks saying dumb comments (I HIGHLY doubt race has anything to do with Cleveland’s anger. That the only man who had a shot at winning a championship just left, let alone it was his hometown, and he did it in the most EMBARASSING fashion possible) has to do with racism just because there multi racial than everyone should be in jail I suppose. It happens every day. Even as you look at the quotes from the Cav's owner I only see some comments made out of the stress of the moment but, I don’t see any racism at all.
A one hour special to go 20 minutes in just to tell you, “Hey, I love you guys, but I wanna win a title. Could he have had a press conference and held up that Heat jersey next to Pat Riley like EVERY SENSIBLE PLAYER DOES?! No! So don’t go off saying race has anything to do with it. The funny part about this is that Mel Gibson tells his girlfriend to get raped by a pack of (Well you fill in the blanks) and where’s Jesse?!
NO WHERE
He went back up in his little spaceship back to his home planet where in the most unsuspecting moment he will be zapped back down to Earth to say yet another dumb comment.
You know if every time someone from a different race in the business world said ANYTHING negative about someone of another race we should all be segregated. Let the Chinese only do business with the Chinese, black only with black, white with white, and Mexicans with only Mexicans. Which, if he’s so for the cause, is the exact opposite of what he preaches to want.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Behind the Fence
At this time last summer my family moved across our town to an apartment complex. There are three complexes around where I live to the right and behind one. Months have passed and more recently I have noticed the complexes that surround us are more dangerous than the one I reside in. I have tried to figure out how one complex that is only separated by a wooden, broken down fence can be worse than another and after long thought and looking at the complex's every day for awhile I have come down to one conclusion…Rent.
The people are the same. We have a heavy black population to the complex behind the complex I live in and the complex to my right. We have Mexicans (me included). We have whites. We are our own little melting pot on this block. So how can one complex be better than another in the ways of crime?
A few months back a man was murdered behind that old fence my parent’s park their car in front of everyday. Two weeks ago a group of kids started throwing rocks at my own mother and her car when she came home from work.
Around my complex we see plenty of dumb decisions, but never to the capacity of my right or behind. Why? They are all owned by the same people. The complex is run by two older women. The only logical explanation I could come up with is rent. The rent at each of these complexes is cheaper than our complex. A desperate family or a neglected family is definitely more likely to be involved in criminal activity than a financially safe one (usually) and color of the skin is not restricted. Black, Tan, White; it doesn't matter here. The poorer you are the more desperate you get, the richer you are the more likely you’re a target. Why do a lot of poor people end up in jail? A lot of people ask because a rich man stealing has nothing to gain. He’s already rich, why steal?
Rules, laws; all of them are meant to protect the wealthy. A poor man isn't likely to steal from another poor man or even poorer man. If there’s a whole group of poor houses and there’s a three story house on that same block, who's more likely to get robbed? You'd probably get a fatter paycheck from the rich man, wouldn't you agree? So I believe whole heartily that the only reason our attitude and our activities and practices are different from each complex is simply because rent is cheaper than the other.
Each being poorer than the next, each more desperate and in need of survival, and that’s what it all comes down to. It's not a certain race. It's not a certain people. It's economic status. And, yes, it does have to do with the environment. I believe heavily in the environment a child or person is raised. I'm not rich. I've flirted with poverty all my life. I am in poverty with my family. But I have never robbed or stolen. Why? Because my Parents and my other Family members guided me that it was wrong. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in every household. People will do anything to survive. It can be anyone so, before you believe or hear the next time some misinformed moron say that Black men or immigrants are more likely to steal than a white man, just remember in each of my complexes I live.
In there’s many white men as poor as dirt like a Mexican or Black and don’t ever be told that he is less likely to steal in his economic state than they are.
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The people are the same. We have a heavy black population to the complex behind the complex I live in and the complex to my right. We have Mexicans (me included). We have whites. We are our own little melting pot on this block. So how can one complex be better than another in the ways of crime?
A few months back a man was murdered behind that old fence my parent’s park their car in front of everyday. Two weeks ago a group of kids started throwing rocks at my own mother and her car when she came home from work.
Around my complex we see plenty of dumb decisions, but never to the capacity of my right or behind. Why? They are all owned by the same people. The complex is run by two older women. The only logical explanation I could come up with is rent. The rent at each of these complexes is cheaper than our complex. A desperate family or a neglected family is definitely more likely to be involved in criminal activity than a financially safe one (usually) and color of the skin is not restricted. Black, Tan, White; it doesn't matter here. The poorer you are the more desperate you get, the richer you are the more likely you’re a target. Why do a lot of poor people end up in jail? A lot of people ask because a rich man stealing has nothing to gain. He’s already rich, why steal?
Rules, laws; all of them are meant to protect the wealthy. A poor man isn't likely to steal from another poor man or even poorer man. If there’s a whole group of poor houses and there’s a three story house on that same block, who's more likely to get robbed? You'd probably get a fatter paycheck from the rich man, wouldn't you agree? So I believe whole heartily that the only reason our attitude and our activities and practices are different from each complex is simply because rent is cheaper than the other.
Each being poorer than the next, each more desperate and in need of survival, and that’s what it all comes down to. It's not a certain race. It's not a certain people. It's economic status. And, yes, it does have to do with the environment. I believe heavily in the environment a child or person is raised. I'm not rich. I've flirted with poverty all my life. I am in poverty with my family. But I have never robbed or stolen. Why? Because my Parents and my other Family members guided me that it was wrong. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in every household. People will do anything to survive. It can be anyone so, before you believe or hear the next time some misinformed moron say that Black men or immigrants are more likely to steal than a white man, just remember in each of my complexes I live.
In there’s many white men as poor as dirt like a Mexican or Black and don’t ever be told that he is less likely to steal in his economic state than they are.
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