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Black poverty differs from white poverty
Washington Post ^ | 12 August 2015 | Emily Badger

Posted on 08/14/2015 9:44:47 AM PDT by Army Air Corps

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To: Army Air Corps
Poverty is the opposite of wealth.

"Wealth" is nothing more than money that you didn't spend on Escalades, bling and hoes and invested in something instead.

People who spend every cent they can get their hands on the minute they get their hands on it will never have "wealth" no matter how much of other people's stuff you give them.

21 posted on 08/14/2015 9:54:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (To defeat the democRATs, we must first defeat the Republicans.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
If life is so horrible in America, why don’t they just go back to their homeland?

LOL! They could go to Liberia and live among Liberians who curse their ancestors for leaving America.

22 posted on 08/14/2015 9:55:15 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: demshateGod
The “housers” as Jane Jacods calls them, did this on purpose because they were eugenicists and racist.

The "housers" also wanted large, dependent & committed voting blocks to secure districts and then entire cities...

23 posted on 08/14/2015 9:56:26 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: DaveyB

So very true.

What will lift generation after generation out of poverty is a good moral compass. If your moral compass says that it is ok to go out and get drunk/high or to flop on your back and spread for any set of pants that happens to be around, you are going to expose your life to the consequences of those actions. Yes, you are free to make that choice but you are NOT free from the consequences of your choices. Good morals deals with making the right choices.

The next requirement is the discipline to see a job well done (a category I call motivation). The third leg of this stool is the development of useful and marketable skills.

If these, the Dems only want to address education / skills and as anyone know, a one legged stool is unstable. It takes a balance of all three (morals, motivation and skills) in order to be successful.


24 posted on 08/14/2015 9:57:18 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: MeganC

And your post has been empirically documented over and over again.

And Liberals keep on demanding more Section 8 housing so they can spread the destruction. Let me put it this way, if I have a whole gallon of fresh water and I add one small ounce of a clear pathogen, what happens to that fresh gallon of water. Would YOU drink that water? Of course not. And that’s what happens when you export a culture that is, by and large corrupted by violent and bad behavior, it infects and ultimately destroys the host.

Repeated over and over again.


25 posted on 08/14/2015 9:57:36 AM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: Gaffer
I can bet you she hasn’t been up in the western valleys of West Virginia or Appalachia, or North Georgia, Southern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or anywhere outside of DC or thereabouts. She has no idea how poor white people live.

I have called this Urban Provincialism: a situation in which one's worldview is confined to and informed by strictly urban experiences. As you said, she hasn't seen the full spectrum of white poverty, and, thus, she hasn't a flippin' clue.
26 posted on 08/14/2015 9:57:47 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 4rcane

“Its probably why obama is so obsessed with moving blacks to white neighborhood because they figured this would make black richer”

No, it is political social engineering. A lot of suburban political districts are 52% Republican. A lot of urban political districts are 90% Democrat. Move those reliable Democrat voters into the suberbs, and you change the voting patterns. It is another way to insure Democrat majorities.

Of course, it might move more people into conservative politics (liberals being mugged).


27 posted on 08/14/2015 9:59:48 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Army Air Corps

This is pure garbage.


28 posted on 08/14/2015 9:59:51 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: pgkdan

“She has a point. Everyone knows that poor white folks all live in $200K houses in the suburbs.

Eastern MA here and there haven’t been $200K houses available in the suburbs for years.

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29 posted on 08/14/2015 10:00:00 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Army Air Corps

I’d bet she’s the DC equivalent of a Brooklyn Hipster.


30 posted on 08/14/2015 10:00:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Army Air Corps

Cry me a river...

The demand that all development projects have 10% of the homes sold at a very reduced rate to low income people already has proven to be a disaster. Homes that sit side by side are taxed at highly different amounts. Creates anger in the neighborhood. Also, low income home owners are more likely to not keep up maintenance, causing devaluing of other homes.


31 posted on 08/14/2015 10:01:36 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: RegulatorCountry

***A lot of poor whites are rural.***

I resembled that remark sixty four years ago on the High Plains. Poverty all around, yet no one felt they were poor.


32 posted on 08/14/2015 10:01:59 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Let Baal plead for Baal because one has destroyed his altar!)
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To: Army Air Corps

Don’t take poverty away from poor people.
Good lord, man, it’s the only thing they have.

— Dave Garner


33 posted on 08/14/2015 10:02:58 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: A CA Guy
Interesting, and what correlation is there to the populations regarding trying to work and the amount of poverty and crime there is in these various neighborhoods?

Note that the authoress addresses none of these issues. Her sole argument is that shuffling poor people around will somehow defeat poverty.
34 posted on 08/14/2015 10:03:22 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
this reminds of the fathatemongers.....not only are you a horrible person because you're fat, but you're doubly horrible because you have in your gut....

so blacks that are poor are worse off than whites that are poor?....

what Bull......whites who are poor are ignored....poor white men are doubly ignored....

the worse poverty in America is in the rural areas.....no midnight basketball or free day camps for the kids, nor free after school programs nor free health clinics....

35 posted on 08/14/2015 10:04:15 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Army Air Corps

Women and minorities hit hardest.

Short people are the last ones to know it’s raining.

I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewisnski.

More women are abused by their husbands during the Super Bowl than at any other time.


36 posted on 08/14/2015 10:04:23 AM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: MeganC

Reminds me of a joke:

Comedian: The economy is really, really bad!
Audience: How bad is it?
Comedian: The economy is so bad I saw a white guy holding up a liquor store!........................


37 posted on 08/14/2015 10:04:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Vigilanteman

Poor blacks sell crack.

I think your hill billies moved on to selling meth more than moonshine.


38 posted on 08/14/2015 10:04:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Army Air Corps

A poor black family, in short, is much more likely than a poor white one to live in a neighborhood where many other families are poor, too, creating what sociologists call the “double burden” of poverty. The difference is stark in most major metropolitan areas, according to recent data analyzed by Rutgers University’s Paul Jargowsky in a new report for the Century Foundation.

...

Look at any demographic map and you’ll see that blacks like to live with blacks, Hispanics like to live with Hispanics, Asians like to live with Asians, and whites like to live with whites.


39 posted on 08/14/2015 10:04:43 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Mears

Not where I live in Virginia Beach either but there’s plenty of places in this country where $200K will buy a nice place.


40 posted on 08/14/2015 10:05:33 AM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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