Posted on 08/14/2020 6:17:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Black Privilege
They don't need the employment opportunities if we provide $50,000 per year in benefits for not working.
Funny thing is compared to your average Soviet apartment, Cabrini Green was paradise.
I think we can find guidance as to that questions answer in the words of uber-leftist and former Mother Jones editor Deirdre English, as reported in Almost Home, a book about communities by David L. Kirp.
Long backstory, but the words are these: "Experience the guilt, but still fight for your price."
These were the words of Ms. English, directed to her fellow Oakland CA homeowners as the collaborated to chisel more money from the insurance companies in the aftermath of the Oakland Hills Firestorm back in 1991.
The story can be found in several places on line, but essentially the homeowners knew they were in the wrong, but used political and organizational savvy to get rebuilding settlements far in excess of what they were owed under the terms of their homeowners policies. The "guilt" of which Ms. English spoke was for lying about what possessions they lost in the fire.
In other words, when its their own stuff, lefties can be pretty ruthless.
No matter what an article is about or its point, I won’t read it if it starts off with “It begins.” It’s trying to sound ominous and overly dramatic, like some sophomoric horror movie trailer.
The irony is that the Burn Loot Murder crowd is mostly young urban white professionals and trust fund babies. Any blacks in the mob are just expendable foot soldiers
Actually the full quote is, “And so it begins” from Babylon 5.
People who had been burned out of their homes painted ceramic tiles to memorialize what they had lost: Grandma's fine china and the grand piano that went up in flames, the tabby cat that had gone missing, "the squirrels who used our telephone lines as a highway." A ten-year-old's tile contained just a single word: "Why?" The tiles, two thousand in all, were joined together in a mosaic 9 feet high and 104 feet long, a memorial, displayed at the BART station on College Avenue, whose message carries an emotional punch akin to the AIDS quilt.Many of these new refugees saw their loss in almost mystical terms. Barely three weeks after the fire, Deirdre English, a onetime editor of Mother Jones, published an essay in a local weekly, the East Bay Express , describing how I she had "floated above the smoldering ruins in a state of effortless Zen detachment." The firestorm had swooped down upon her house, obliging her to flee for her life, abandoning every material possession as well as the manuscript of a book in progress.
At first, she recalled, those material losses felt liberating, part of a new awareness that "attachment to things is a futile denial of death." But Zen masters live hardscrabble lives, and the East Bay hills weren't filled with the sound of one hand clapping. Very quickly, Deirdre Eng- lish sensed in herself the temptation to "start denying death all over again from the starting line: by madly consuming." In this she was not alone.
There are very few blacks in Seattle. They represent around 3% of the population. These are white anarchists.
...to this in only 20 years
LOL...I’m with you. “It begins” is such a ridiculous, worn-out, and overused cliché. But sometimes I just hold my nose and read the article.
There was a BLM rally in my town a couple of weeks ago. I drove by. Looked like they brought their own black lives to matter. No one that I recognized from the area.
There may be some method to this madness If property values can be depressed, people may decide to get out of town. Many may end up upside down on their mortgages, as in the sub-prime crisis. A couple of houses full of anarchists in a neighborhood might be enough to discourage more neighbors. De-gentrification would ensue.
I have a 94 yearold flaming lib Trump hater for a father in law. I will now tell him we need to start looking for a nursing home for him so BLM can have someone else take posession. If that doesn’t change his mind, nothing will.
Seattle "gentrified neighborhood" 2022 after Antifa & BLM
Cuckservatives may bleat “I don’t see color” but color sees you.
...one for the history books, if the technology remains in 2022 to print them.
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Even if it does, who will be allowed to read them? Or capable, for that matter?
The progs are already demanding that no history be taught because racist.
Funny thing is compared to your average Soviet apartment, Cabrini Green was paradise.
Before the fall of the Soviet Union I remember reading an article about how hard it was to find any paint if someone wanted to brighten the place up. Even in Moscow, getting a couple of liters of paint was quite the achievement. You had to likely get it from a worker who stole it from a project. Color—you had to take what you could get and you’d be lucky if you could paint a whole wall.
Just let me do a little work on the gas shutoff valve before you move in.
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