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How Fast Food Chains Supersized Inequality
The New Republic ^ | August 2, 2017 | Max Holleran

Posted on 08/03/2017 4:33:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fast food in general is not cheaper than cooking healthy, economical foods at home. And if only indulged in occasionally, they are not especially bad for you or fattening.

The issue is one of initiative and industriousness. But also one of intelligence and having your life enough in order to be orderly about your food.


41 posted on 08/03/2017 5:25:23 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have them call Moochelle Obummer. She’ll grt them out of their food deserts and over to her mansion and serve them wonderful arugula surprises.


42 posted on 08/03/2017 5:34:52 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The thing is Mississippi got just as much damage from Katrina. People totally forgot about it.

When you mention Katrina, it is always just NOLA, and the 9th ward (if I remember correctly).


43 posted on 08/03/2017 5:37:09 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No access to supermarket...??

Yeh - couple years ago in Newark opened brand new
supermarket. All sort of speeches about giving poor
access to good fresh food

Closed 2 years later - nobody in neighborhood bothered
to shop there......


44 posted on 08/03/2017 5:38:51 PM PDT by njslim
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To: BenLurkin

You might be including the meth class there...

I see from the article that under EVIL Nixon, the SBA tried to give a whopping 40% of small biz loans to minority businesses, and not even enough applied to fill that quota. Quite a leg up, I’d say.


45 posted on 08/03/2017 5:43:06 PM PDT by GnuThere
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46 posted on 08/03/2017 5:49:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

If the poor would only watch the Food Network, they would learn that arugula is “peppery and delish.”
They should appreciate it or else.
/s


47 posted on 08/03/2017 5:49:55 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: BlackAdderess

They blame everyone for their BS. Take the damn EBT card plus section 8 housing and all freebies away. We call it WORKING FOR A LIVING. It was even a SONG.


48 posted on 08/03/2017 6:29:11 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quite so. I went to college at Tulane in New Orleans and recognized an air of defeat and resignation in the Black people in New Orleans. In time, I realized that for me, New Orleans was temporary and exciting, but for them, New Orleans was a trap that they could not escape. The city offered but a dismal education and few opportunities for its massive Black underclass, while distance from other cities effectively stranded them.


49 posted on 08/03/2017 6:45:38 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they think the SBA was bad for minority health, it will pale in comparison to the harm of the ACA.

Live by the government, die by the government.


50 posted on 08/03/2017 6:59:57 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“no access to neighborhood supermarkets. For those without much money or options, fast food can be a blessing”

I wondered why they couldn’t make a nice, hot, nutritious, cheap meal of beans and cornbread, like I was raised on and still eat.

But apparently they only have “access” to the fast food joint. Whatever that means.


51 posted on 08/03/2017 7:02:48 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: Heart of Georgia

My late father’s “school lunch” on those rare days he was able to attend was a piece of cornbread with a bit of lard on top.


52 posted on 08/03/2017 7:10:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.

You ate what?

We ate sand.

You ate SAND?

That's right!
53 posted on 08/03/2017 7:16:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That must have been the standard, because it’s pretty much the way my dad described the lunch he carried to school. My grandfather had too many mouths to feed on a coal miner’s wage, but he managed to get most of them to adulthood.


54 posted on 08/03/2017 7:32:29 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have been many places and seen many things but what I have never been witness to is a person forcibly shoving Big Mac’s down someone else’s gullet. That, L and G, is a individual sport activity and subject to free will as any other bad habit.

The CIA introduced crack into the black community and Ray Kroc introduced Big Mac to the same. It’s a flipping conspiracy...


55 posted on 08/03/2017 7:52:20 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
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To: CodeToad

“No one forces blacks to eat fast food. Since most are considered “poor” they should be cooking at home instead.”

Cheap tasty food is racist. Expensive food is racist. Self control is racist. Everything white people do or dont do to help blacks is racist.


56 posted on 08/03/2017 8:10:38 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The rise in obesity in the U.S. is an epidemic and much of the root causes lie in poverty

We are the first society in the history of the planet whose poor people have to worry about obesity instead of starvation.

57 posted on 08/03/2017 8:15:09 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Olog-hai

He is not a professor at NYU. He got a master’s degree from there in urban sociology. He was a research assistant. He’s working toward his doctorate. Apparently he’s having difficulty writing his dissertation. If this article is a representative sample of his work, he’s going to have trouble getting that dissertation written.

He speaks of the Super Dome and black bodies fleeing New Orleans when, in fact, that was the problem. Those bodies never fled. They stayed and didn’t evacuate when told of the threat.

And then there was the snarky comment about conservatives. This kid has much to learn.


58 posted on 08/03/2017 8:34:31 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: PGR88
McDonald’s went from one minority franchise in 1969 to 10,142 in 1984 (mostly African American).

And almost completely at the expense of non- coloured applicants and franchisee's who were better funded and qualified, and there were a lot of Hispanics who benefited as well from theses, simply stated, reverse discriminations which went totally against long established policies.

59 posted on 08/03/2017 8:35:51 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: BenLurkin

If you’re going to loot beer, at least get something good! Looter guy had a load of Heinekens.


60 posted on 08/03/2017 9:05:33 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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