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Ald. Davis: Blacks use illegal drug trade for economic needs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | August 9, 2013 | Don Walker

Posted on 08/10/2013 9:43:30 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi

In a statement expressing his frustration with how growth in the local economy bypasses black males in the city, Ald. Joe Davis said Friday that the illegal drug trade is the "common way" for many African-Americans to provide for their basic financial needs.

Davis, who is African-American, entitled his statement: "Divide and conquer politics stagnates Milwaukee's economy, shuts out black males." {snip}

Davis said the city's rate of economic growth involving the private sector was "pathetic." He added that that poor performance was directly related to the city's crime rate.

"We accept group homes, day cares, gas stations and corner grocery stores as a pro business growth strategy while other local economies are looking at us in the rear view mirror. I shake my head as the City of Kenosha has landed Amazon's distribution center while City of Milwaukee officials are sitting on the sidelines crying, 'What about me?' "

Davis conceded people would be offended by his statement. He continued: "The illegal drug trade is the common way in the City of Milwaukee's African American community of providing the basic financial needs of many residents, and its mere presence is creating instability that is directly related to our violent crime statistics. We fight over minuscule issues that could unite us, but we are stuck in the past of 'Divide and Conquer.' Now we want to spend $500,000 on police overtime, but fight not to invest the same amount in African American men and boys who will be the target of strict law enforcement because of our dismal local economy in their community."

Estimates vary, but academic and labor experts say the unemployment rate in the African-American community is at least 40% or perhaps higher.

(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: joedavis; kenosha; milwaukee; wisconsin
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To: Frank_2001

If Old Milwaukee is any indication, they never did. The world does not need more American beer.


22 posted on 08/11/2013 12:06:43 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
What's wrong with their EBT?
23 posted on 08/11/2013 12:10:38 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Phony President)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
The alderman is right, becoming a drug pusher in the black ghetto of Milwaukee is a perfectly rational economic reaction to that society. It is no less a rational than a bunch of very wealthy contributors to Brack Obama starting up a solar energy company. Both are responding to an artificial market created by the government and in each market the government engages in price support.

It is also perfectly logical for Amazon to locate its distribution center in Kenosha which is relatively safe from the wreckage caused by the government's drug policies.

You see, the system works for everyone. The young black entrepreneur finds a way to compensate for his lack of education and attain quick riches. The alderman gets to profit from African-American victimology. White politicians get to proclaim their righteousness and opposition to drugs. Big business gets to operate relatively free of the cancers which are destroying our society. The drug abusers in the suburbs get to acquire their drugs while the obvious damage of the drug culture seems to be limited to inner city.

It's a win-win all around.


24 posted on 08/11/2013 12:48:36 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

IRS doesn’t seem to care, as long as the cash tax evader / money launderers are black skinnned. Thanks Barry.


25 posted on 08/11/2013 12:49:41 AM PDT by goron (If this be treason, make the most of it! - Patrick Henry)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Drugs create poverty and Government Dependency. Welfare money and other government handouts finance the drug trade. Direct Government payouts to the Black Overseers keep the slaves on the Democrat Plantation, and in this circle of misery.

OOPS..
This is too politically incorrect to mention, isn’t it.


26 posted on 08/11/2013 1:17:36 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: Jeff Chandler

They can get up off their keester and go somewhere else if they don’t like the opportunity there. However, when/if they do that, they will find they have brought the cause of the effect with them.


27 posted on 08/11/2013 3:18:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

“Ald. Joe Davis said Friday that the illegal drug trade is the “common way” for many African-Americans to provide for their basic financial needs. “

Yep—that latest pair of sneaks, 60” screen. Escalade, etc. are on everybodys’ “basic needs” list.


28 posted on 08/11/2013 3:24:29 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Oh ok!...............a legal defence to get out of jail free


29 posted on 08/11/2013 3:43:20 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I thought deductions from American-Americans’ paychecks were providing for the economic needs of Milwaukee’s blacks...


30 posted on 08/11/2013 4:08:41 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BenLurkin

“At the very time when the last ugly vestiges of segregation were being cleared away for black men to join the workforce, women shouldered their way in ahead of them.”

I believe the problem was that blacks were moving into northern cities to take jobs that were on their way out of the country; when they first came up from the South in numbers into the northeast they were working. Over time as the jobs left they stayed on with no work, and never adapted to a non-manufacturing economy (they still haven’t for the most part).


31 posted on 08/11/2013 4:10:42 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
"basic financial needs."????

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty

I grew up without about 90% of this stuff. Somehow, I managed to pay attention in school long enough to learn the basics of the English language and arithmetic.

The kind of poverty that there is in American society today isn't a poverty that can be fixed with money.

32 posted on 08/11/2013 4:31:49 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Shadowstrike

Well DUH!

Just who’s fault do you think it was?

It wasn’t the man’s idea to get rid of the dinosaur.

Dinosaur was just doing what dinosaurs do.

Tracked a little mud across the woman’s clean floor and rearranged a little furniture with his tail. Nothing to get your panties in a wad over.

But no. Woman has to get herself all in a tizzy, told the man to get rid of that dinosaur or she would.

What’s a man to do but say Yes Dear.


33 posted on 08/11/2013 4:44:47 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks NotYourAverageDhimmi. Without any hint of recognition of the irony, the racist demagogue:
entitled his statement: "Divide and conquer politics stagnates Milwaukee's economy, shuts out black males."

34 posted on 08/11/2013 5:33:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Black people like this Alderman don’t see how they are the divisive party and they are in denial about the role they play in their own demise. Remember, it’s always whitey’s fault.


35 posted on 08/11/2013 6:06:18 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Joe Davis said Friday that the illegal drug trade is the "common way" for many African-Americans to provide for their basic financial needs.

I agree with joe, is he now my new black friend?

36 posted on 08/11/2013 6:06:45 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
“Ald. Davis: Blacks use illegal drug trade for economic needs” Oh than in that case it's okay. Now I understand. Blacks can choose crime as a career because they live in Shiite neighborhoods made that way because they choose crime as a career. Why didn't I think of that?
37 posted on 08/11/2013 6:06:48 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Sooth2222

Urban American blacks have a higher standard of living than the overwhelming majority of people on this planet. To listen to them, though, they are not only the absolute poorest people on the planet, but it’s all because of white people holding them down.

If poverty causes crime, then why isn’t there way more crime in über-poor areas of Southeast Asia?

If the difference in wealth between you and those in the society around you causes crime (the jealousy effect), then why aren’t members of America’s middle class regularly mugging and burglarizing the upper class?


38 posted on 08/11/2013 6:12:36 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
I get it. Keep drugs illegal, but let blacks sell them because they have to earn a living somehow. Using drugs in the black community is OK because it helps make living in the inner city tolerable.

Is it true illegal drugs are the path to financial success in the black community?

Who said capitalism is dead?

39 posted on 08/11/2013 6:36:36 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
I think I have discovered the core of the problem; running out of Whites to steal from; when the ratio of White to Black drops below 2 to 1, poverty and a lack of job opportunities results

“According to the 2010 Census, 44.8% of the population was White (37.0% non-Hispanic white), 40.0% was Black or African American, 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.5% Asian, 3.4% from two or more races. 17.3% of Milwaukee's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race).[49]”

40 posted on 08/11/2013 7:02:04 AM PDT by BilLies (I despise The Progressive Liberal American Press, its corporations, management, reporters, readers.)
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