one of the things that has been bothering me is that since the 70's at least, black folks in the city have been allowed to say things like "kill all cr*ckers", etc. I'm not personally threatened by this in any way, but it's very revealing.
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in general, if someone if threatening to kill all of a certain group of people publicly, this is a serious matter. But the tolerance towards this rhetoric has but a single reason: people not taking blacks seriously at all.
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so at the same time that progressives and neoliberals are "empowering" and "supporting" the "black community", it is done in a massively patronizing and belittling way. The side effect is that it scares most people from the country.
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I recall reading about the young man from philadelphia, from a working class family, seeing his neighborhood get overrun by inner city black folks - really the work of the young men - and the city basically turning a blind eye. Those young men won that neighborhood...
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... through violent means, for sure. And in the end drove off the talents that made that neighborhood as nice as it was; so in the end they got little for their trouble, the former residents were forced out, and the politicians? They got votes, I suppose.
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