CardinalBacker

I read the article... the city promised the hotels that FEMA would step in. The contracted rate is $200/night per room. I don't know if they still have 5000 rooms rented.... but 5000 rooms at $200/night is a smooth milly per day for four months now.

When they started this program, I wondered who was going to pick up the tab for repairs when they finally get tossed out. My guess is that anyplace that has been housing homeless for four months will need a remodel, if not demolished. Typically the room's occupant would be responsible for damages, but they're broke. Would it fall back to the city, or would the hotel/motel insurance be on the hook?

I get grumpy every time somebody points out that same-race murder rates are pretty similar. It's not wrong, it's just not relevant. But you're right. I'll edit that out.

13% of the US population is black, but 50% of all murder victims are black.... And you're literally arguing that it's okay because other black people are killing them. (insult removed)

I liked him a long better before he became the unofficial ambassador to the Ukraine.

Thanks for all that you're accomplishing, BLM. [Hidden Content]

Sleeping in. Fishing. Golfing. Hanging at the beach. Mowing the yard. Washing the truck. Going to the lake. Flirting with the volleyball coach. Telling stories about how they'd be playing the bigs if their high school coach hadn't screwed 'em. Same as every other summer.

Endless Summer, baby.... Nobody thinks online is an acceptable replacement for in-classroom instruction. We'll just kick the whole thing back off when the teachers feel it's completely safe and THEY are ready to get back to work. The major push to avoid returning to schools is coming from the schools themselves. I think that those objections clear right up when you shut off their paychecks. Don't take my word for it... we all have teacher friends on Facebook. Go check 'em out. It's not too dangerous to go to Austin, Fredricksburg, the lake, the beach, Colorado, etc.... it's just not safe to go back to class.

He has a point. If I want to start looking at my genealogy, I can hit up ancestry.com or familysearch.org and go as far back as I care to go. There’s a history and an accountability associated with that. Those chains of succession were smashed for so many black families during the time of slavery. Instead of birth and death records, the slaves would be cataloged like the livestock instead of included in census records. It’s hard to complain that there’s not a great big sense of ancestry if slavery was part of the reason that sense doesn’t exist like it does in white families. If you believe that the criminal justice system is racist, the the fact that so many young black fathers are racially incarcerated and keeping them from being the fathers that they could be. Lastly, the black guys here posting ARE family guys. Most of them are here because they’ve been actively working with their own kids... but we’re griping at them about the problem of single parenting in their community. How do you explain to a young man w/o a dad in his life that the best day of your own life was when your kids were born? There aren’t any easy answers.

From my perspective, it seems like we (white people) carry a lot of blame from the black community. To me, it seems like too much blame. But I use the word "seem" because all I have to base it on is the opinions that I'm presented with. I don't see how we get things figured out if person "A" believes that most of those problems are self-inflicted, and person "B" believes that most are the result of racism. You have person "B" trying to push ideas forward involving privilege, systemic racism, oppression, etc.... basically assigning blame to others and person "A" saying... "wait....here's an instance where that's just not correct." My biggest gripe is that (in my opinion), all of this unrest is over the 5-6 percent that I believe is caused by racism, while we ignore the 94-95 percent that would be self-inflicted. It's really hard to convince someone like me that sees things as "black and white" to ignore the obvious and try to understand and focus on what I don't see.

Seriously... Lets do an Informal poll.... I'd just like to know how other people feel. I respectfully ask that anyone with enough balls to answer not have their answer criticized or questioned. There can be no singling out of posters for their opinions. As far as the current condition of black community, I believe that racism has had an effect. But what percentage of the circumstances in the black community as a whole do you believe are caused by racism? I'm not even kidding... If you'll answer this question, I won't even criticize or question your answer, and I beg others not to do so, either. I'm not a big excuses guy... I believe in personal responsibility and accountability for one's own actions. That's just how I live my life. Based on that I've got the opinion that overall, racism accounts for somewhere in the mid single digits.... So put me down for something like 5-6 percent racism, and 94-95 percent bad choices.

Systemic racism is not the major problem facing the black community today.... not even in the top 25, probably Slavery existed. So did the Ice Age.... and it has nothing to do with why my beer in my refrigerator says cold. Most black communities are former white communities that were destroyed after the whites left... go figure. Before you start crying about Tulsa, do a little reading. the death toll on day one was 10 white, 2 black. If you ask me, I'll quote you and say that those blacks "started a confrontation and found out they picked the wrong white boys." At the end of the firefight, 12 people were killed: 10 white and 2 black.[21] As news of these deaths spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded.[2] White rioters rampaged through the black neighborhood that night and morning killing men and burning and looting stores and homes, and only around noon the next day did Oklahoma National Guard troops manage to get control of the situation by declaring martial law. About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $32.25 million in 2019). Their property was never recovered nor were they compensated for it. (32.25 million in damages in today's numbers... by comparison, the damages caused by BLM in Minneapolis alone this year are over $550 million. So cry me river about ol' Tulsa). MLK, JFK, RFK..... all killed in the 60s. All Civil Rights Leaders? Nope... but let's cry over black ones. They're special. Yup... Whites just dropped off pallets of coke in black communities and they had no idea what to do with it. Those poor blacks were forced to sell it on the corners in a vain attempt to rid their neighborhoods of the poison. Still ongoing, btw. That's the bull that I'm talking about. Black people destroy their communities with drugs use and sales, and STILL try to blame white people Every black kid out there can sing song after song by "artists" who glorify drug abuse, but it's still the fault of racism. Like I said.... it's not racism that holds the black communities back... it's a victim mentality that ooze from every direction in the black community.

I believe you are correct, sir. Biden by a lot.

Politics is just like pro wrestling... they all get up and talk big for their fans, then have a fake fight and they all ride home together in the same car.

Lol... 5'8" George Zimmerman was attacked by 6'2" 17 year old Trayvon Martin. I highly doubt that an armed guy would bother bare-handedly attacking a guy that towered over him. [Hidden Content] But like I said... why let the fAcTs get in the way of a good fairy tale, SETX.

If I'm bouncing somebody's skull off of the concrete and they kill me, it's not murder. [Hidden Content] I doesn't matter how cute my 7th grade class photo was. The fact that so many people believe those false narratives is what has us in the mess that we're in today.

I saw a Tiktok the other day and the cameraman sounded to be black, and he was filming a younger black man who was helping a black kid about 7 weld on a log trailer. Both had on welding hoods. The camera guy was saying “Look at that... I raised a good daddy right there.” Or something along those lines. That kid is so fortunate to have those kind of men in his life. I liked and followed, lol. [Hidden Content] I went back and found it.

True, true, true..... and slavery had an affect on that. The number of young black dads in prison even more so. I don’t think that dismantling the justice system is the answer, though, and as a white dude I don’t know what I can do to help. I don’t have a voice in the community that needs the message.

It’s totally true. He hasn’t said so explicitly, but I’d bet a small sum that Santa had a legit father figure. It’s been proven over and over that a kid’s best chance of being raised above the poverty level and all of the problems faced by people living in low socioeconomic situations is to be from a nuclear family. From the BLM mission statement. [Hidden Content] ”We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” I guess that’s what young black kids need.... less father figures and more “it takes a village.”

When my boys were 15 you couldn’t get them to sit down and do their driver’s ed courses, and they had a license waiting as a reward. There’s no chance they’d do anything school-related without somebody standing over the top of them. Most households don’t have the luxury of doing that. I say just hit the pause button. Hold off on reopening schools until we’re all comfortable. But halt teacher and administration pay until they reopen. Kids don’t advance in grades, either. If they don’t graduate high school until they’re 22 or 23, so be it. So much for that five grand raise we gave em all last year. Now they won’t even show up and do their jobs anymore. Ive been saying for years that teachers collectively overestimate the value of their profession, and the pandemic is just proving my point. If you can leave your job undone for five months and be asking for that leave to be extended for an indefinite period, and nobody cares except for the loss of babysitting.... well, there you go.

No... I’ve noticed it for years. I’ve just never asked. Curious, though... why would you idolize a pimp who openly defrauded the welfare system by pulling up in a limo to get his food stamps? Among many, many other things that would show a pretty complete lack of good character. Doesn’t seem like something a guy with your background would typically support.

What you’re saying makes sense, but those aren’t the rules any more. If somebody holds a “free speech” rally and some white supremacist jack@ss shows up, it’s a freaking klan rally. Everybody who showed up should lose their job, according to the left. EVERYBODY is grouped with the lowest common denominator. If somebody like David Duke comes out in support of a Republican, we’re all a bunch of racists. So if you’ve ever supported BLM (or even a democratic candidate for city council), you’re nothing but a rioting, looting, punching old people on the street for no reason, burning up cop cars piece of crap. Anytime some whack job comes out and says something ridiculous from a liberal viewpoint, guess what? He was speaking for you. Period. Y’all made the rules... now we’re all gonna play by them.

It’s the same thing. You don’t get to pick and choose. You either support BLM , their ideals, their violence and looting, or you don’t. It might have meant something good at one point, but now it’s been hijacked by the far left and must be denounced as the hate movement that it is. Kinda like that ol’ rebel flag.

I used to wake up to them every morning. I quit that years ago. Just too much negativity.

Nobody is comparing the two... I’m sorry that you’re having so much trouble understanding basic comparisons. REL died in 1870 and was widely hailed as a hero at the time of his passing by most people, believe it or not. At the turn of the century (1900-1920) they were throwing up monuments and naming schools after him. Move forward a hundred years (2020) and he is a traitor who is to be scorned and universally despised based on “new” ways of thinking. On the other hand, you have MLK who died in 1968 and was widely hailed as hero at the time of his passing. At the turn of the century (2000-2020) they were throwing up monuments and naming schools after him. Imagine that a hundred years from now (2100-2120) and he is considered a traitor who is to be scorned and universally despised based on “new” ways of thinking? Because that’s what the left is doing today.... who says that it won’t happen again? That’s a pretty good comparison if you ask me.