1000 "teens" ransack mall in Kentucky

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

BTW drugs finds it way to wherever there is a demand.

There was a time when there wasn't a drug problem at all.

There was a time when there wasn't a planned parenthood located inside black communities at all.

Liquor stores and predatory lending places that target the poor in urban areas that happen to be, most of time, black people...

If we wouldn't patronize them, they would go out of business, but the cycle was initiated on the poor, maybe to keep them quiet and happy and comfortable in their poverty? Maybe there is something even more nefarious at work?

Wondering isn't directly blaming anyway and I started that part of my post acknowledging my thoughts out loud.

[Truthseeker]

It's not just poor who do drugs, drink and have abortions. It touches all of society, there is no conspiracy.

[Pliny]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

There was a time when there wasn't a drug problem at all.

There was a time when there wasn't a planned parenthood located inside black communities at all.

Liquor stores and predatory lending places that target the poor in urban areas that happen to be, most of time, black people...

If we wouldn't patronize them, they would go out of business, but the cycle was initiated on the poor, maybe to keep them quiet and happy and comfortable in their poverty? Maybe there is something even more nefarious at work?

Wondering isn't directly blaming anyway and I started that part of my post acknowledging my thoughts out loud.

IMO the biggest issue in the Black community is the breakup of the home. It seems to me that the "Great Society" did much to precipitate this. BTW it is not unique to any race. It seems to me that the black community was targeted and welfare help demanded that the father be absent from the home - if I understand it correctly. Planned Parenthood did in fact target the black community and was instigated by a racist. I believe - I cannot prove it - that the drugs first entered the black community through government agencies like the CIA many many years ago. No doubt it goes back to Woodrow Wilson who was a racist. IMO it is like the "healthcare" given to African American men who were given placebo's so disease could be tracked in the human body. Some of this is conspiracy and some of it is truth. It is just an opinion...

I do wonder what your thoughts are on this though.

[Pliny]

Planned Parenthood founder

Margaret Sanger:
Margaret Sanger has been lauded by some as a woman of valor, but a closer look reveals that Planned Parenthood’s audacious founder had some unsavory things to say about matters of race, birth control, and abortion. An outspoken eugenicist herself, Sanger consistently promoted racist ideals with a contemptuous attitude.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/1...rgaret-sanger/



During her lifetime, Margaret Sanger publicly urged the elimination of "human weeds," the "cessation of charity," and the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." She championed the "science" of eugenics, ridiculed God and marriage, and founded Planned Parenthood, which has grown to become the largest abortion-provider in America.
http://www.abort73.com/abortion/plan..._racist_roots/

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I don't think I am blaming someone else as much as I am trying to shed light on the fact that the current situation is dire and will not change without a multi-pronged response.

I appreciate all you have had to say in this thread. But I still must wonder, who is organizing these kids. Van Jones? Whoever it is should be tried for child endangerment if any of these kids are under 18.

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Pliny

Planned Parenthood founder

Margaret Sanger:
Margaret Sanger has been lauded by some as a woman of valor, but a closer look reveals that Planned Parenthood’s audacious founder had some unsavory things to say about matters of race, birth control, and abortion. An outspoken eugenicist herself, Sanger consistently promoted racist ideals with a contemptuous attitude.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/1...rgaret-sanger/



During her lifetime, Margaret Sanger publicly urged the elimination of "human weeds," the "cessation of charity," and the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." She championed the "science" of eugenics, ridiculed God and marriage, and founded Planned Parenthood, which has grown to become the largest abortion-provider in America.
http://www.abort73.com/abortion/plan..._racist_roots/

She spoke at KKK conventions on more than one occasion.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Originalist

I appreciate all you have had to say in this thread. But I still must wonder, who is organizing these kids. Van Jones? Whoever it is should be tried for child endangerment if any of these kids are under 18.

Police were saying this wasn't organized.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

JD - any thoughts on how illegal immigration has hurt the African-American community?

The immediate, obvious effect of illegal immigration that sticks out is with the low wage, skilled and unskilled laborer market. However, the bruise there is big in that it doesn't just effect blacks in America, but every employee and business owner in that area of employment in the country.

Capitalism is good but raw capitalism unchecked by government regulation is not healthy for the country.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Originalist

I appreciate all you have had to say in this thread. But I still must wonder, who is organizing these kids. Van Jones? Whoever it is should be tried for child endangerment if any of these kids are under 18.

I don't know who Van Jones is. Should I know who this is?

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Pliny

IMO the biggest issue in the Black community is the breakup of the home. It seems to me that the "Great Society" did much to precipitate this. BTW it is not unique to any race. It seems to me that the black community was targeted and welfare help demanded that the father be absent from the home - if I understand it correctly. Planned Parenthood did in fact target the black community and was instigated by a racist. I believe - I cannot prove it - that the drugs first entered the black community through government agencies like the CIA many many years ago. No doubt it goes back to Woodrow Wilson who was a racist. IMO it is like the "healthcare" given to African American men who were given placebo's so disease could be tracked in the human body. Some of this is conspiracy and some of it is truth. It is just an opinion...

I do wonder what your thoughts are on this though.

The break up of the home has been a problem in the black community for some black families, in reality, since slavery times. If there is one vestige still left over from that gruesome part of our American history, it would be the destruction of the family unit.

In my family history and in many other family histories of blacks I have spoken with, NOT FOR ALL, but for many, a clear ancestral family tree doesn't exist before the early 1900's. My Grandpa's family line is clear, but my Grandma's family line is not "traditional" once we go back beyond her.

I think there are other factors that exacerbate the tenuous situation in 21st century America, but the broken home phenomenon is not new for our community. It has spread like a malignant cancer, but it isn't new.