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Edwards: Soon all young black men will be dead or incarcerated

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Posted by gorb 2007-09-29 05:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 So all young blacks are engaged in violent crime --either as perps or victims. What an incredibly racist thing to say, and evidently think. Move over Kucinich, Pretty Boy wants your seat on the nutjob express.

Posted by regular joe 2007-09-29 07:39|| 2007-09-29 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 John better STFU and let ~~President~~ Elizabeth Edwards do the speaking. He's just another semi-pretty face ~~with great hair~~ and empty suit. She's got the cojones. Does he propose that we not incarcerate black criminals? What a tool....smell the desperation

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-29 07:53|| 2007-09-29 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I smell fear and desperation.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-29 08:20|| 2007-09-29 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I smell the latent racism of the party of Robert KKK Byrd.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-29 08:31|| 2007-09-29 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 First, let me put out there that I think Edwards is a nutcase.

But I don't disagree with him that too many black men end up in prison or dead. What he doesn't say is telling, though. He is pandering to the black community by just throwing out this statement without addressing the reasons why. Where are the "root causes"? Democrats usually love talking about that stuff. And what does he propose to turn it around-some kind of buy out?

Bill Cosby has a better take on it than Edwards. From encyclopedia.com:

"Cosby said during his speech: 'People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.... The lower-economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids--$500 sneakers, for what? And won't spend $200 for Hooked On Phonics."

Cosby also said: "I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't, Where you is' ... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

Cosby also addressed crime in the Black community: "These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake, and then we run out and we are outraged. 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What in the hell was he doing with that pound cake in his hand?' "

Posted by Jules 2007-09-29 08:35|| 2007-09-29 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Because they don't take proper care of their hair?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-29 08:57|| 2007-09-29 08:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Jeez, Pretty Boy. Think of what that would do to the NBA! It would be decimated!! DECIMATED, I TELLS YA!!!

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-29 09:08|| 2007-09-29 09:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Edwards is simply voicing his subconscious desire to see Obama in prison or dead.

Posted by Hillary 2007-09-29 09:22|| 2007-09-29 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Things are really starting to get weird in D.C.
I can hardly wait for the election, I don't think it is going to be as close as they think. Dont have any facts to support that, just a growing sense of people realizing that the left is insane/suicidal.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-09-29 11:26|| 2007-09-29 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10 The only way to meet inanity is with more inanity.

That is, Edwards should be publicly asked: "And why do you WANT to imprison or kill all young black men?"

Imagine his hysterical response.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-29 13:36|| 2007-09-29 13:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Edwards typifies the latent racism embedded in a majority of modern liberal thinking. This is classic "We must lift up our little brown brothers" hogwash. Even as incipient American racism declines, the black community's lack of more rapid improvement can be traced to glorification of the thug life, gangsta rap, pimping, misogyny and a willingness to follow race-baiting poverty pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Once AIDS and crack are added into the equation, it remains a wonder that there has been any improvement at all.

Much like how Islamic clerics view prosperity as inimical to jihad, so do the Sharptons and Jacksons see it as a threat to the only lever they have; Namely, "White society keeping the black man down". People like Bill Cosby are doing their best to explode this tired old canard but it is so entrenched by victim mentality and the blame game that many more generations will pass before any end to this self-imposed poverty can happen.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-29 13:38|| 2007-09-29 13:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Edwards saw that flip-flopping was very damaging to Kerry, so he formulated a strategy based on not taking any positions whatsoever. This strategy calls for him to describe obvious problems, point out that something different will have to be done to solve the problem, assert that he will do things differently, avoid describing a solution in more than the vaguest terms, assert that he is winning, and thank everyone for their continued support.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-09-29 14:11|| 2007-09-29 14:11|| Front Page Top

#13 There's an old saying; 'God helps those who help themselves.'
Men also give help to those who help themselves, and avoid wasting time and effort on people who don't care. When I think that 92 percent of African-Americans vote democrat each election, then I doubt that they care. In fact, I wonder if anybody living within major city limits cares any more. They give massive political support to corrupt regimes, and struggle under the weight of such corruption. I know many white city dwellers who have lost hope, and yet they consider the Republican party their enemy. I hope to live long enough to see the evolution of city politics into truth and efficiency. For decades, you couldn't go into some cities at night for fear of your life. Always, I knew this was a measure of our culture and of our morality. It doesn't have to be this way, but they just don't care.

Posted by wxjames 2007-09-29 20:09|| 2007-09-29 20:09|| Front Page Top

#14 True, the dems have elevated pandering to an art form, but the interesting aspect is, what would have happened if a Republican candidate had said the same thing?

I guaran-f*ckin-tee you he would have been hung out to dry, portrayed as worse than Hitler on PBS, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS.

Their reaction to this one? Not a damn word.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-09-29 20:16|| 2007-09-29 20:16|| Front Page Top

#15 I've been seeing some hysterical headlines in the local paper (tried to find links to these and drew a blank). One of these was a report of some study claiming that "Racism a factor in African American infant mortality." Well, no. Teenagers having babies, fatherlessness and other related disasters are not exactly functions of deliberate racism. They are, rather, the effect of asinine public policy that eliminated fathers from families that qualified for public assistance; the promotion of the sexual revolution, and easy divorce.

Comments #11 and #13 above trigger the following rant, some of which I've ranted before here:
Fifty-odd years ago, the jobs moved out of the inner city along the interstates. Families without cars couldn't follow the jobs. There was serious racism at that time, preventing minority families from moving out into the suburbs to follow the jobs. There was systematic racism in the management of the schools as well. When a minority student moved into a school, the Chicago school district let that school go to hell. My mother, a first grade teacher in 1958 in the school that served the brand-new Cabrini Green project, had 50 first graders. The supply room told her she could have all the construction paper she wanted, but the school hadn't seen scissors and paste in two years.

The blockbusters conspired with city government so that, when a black family moved into a Chicago neighborhood, the aldercreatures and their henchmen conspired to stop city services such as garbage pickup. Then the blockbusters called local families and said, "You better get out; the niggers are coming." The blockbusters bought the houses cheap and sold them to black families at breathtaking profits. But the city didn't start the garbage pickup up properly, and city services to those areas were spotty at best. The Chicago Housing Authority wouldn't send maintenance men into the projects, ever. And then they wrung their hands about crime in these neighborhoods.

Thus the Chicago Democratic Machine, at work.

Black faces in city government didn't change anything. African American politicians in Chicago are just as crooked as their white colleagues. Like Jackson and Sharpton, they have a vested interest in victim politics. Mike Royko declared that the motto of Chicago is "Ubi est mea?", meaning "Where's mine?" Chicago's kleptocracy is color blind, except when they want to pander for some votes.

wxjames's quotation comes from Aesop: "The gods help those who help themselves." This comes from the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner. The wagon went off the road, and the wagoner stood weeping and wailing at the side of the road, calling on Hercules to come down from Olympus and help him. Hercules did appear, and said, "Put your shoulder to the wheel, man." The wagoner did so, and found that he could have saved himself the weeping and wailing and gotten out of the ditch immediately.

I can see the difference between the "shoulder to the wheel" and "victim" mentalities right in my neighborhood. I am looking out my window at the homes of three African American neighbors. Two of these families are busting their tails to make sure their kids get a good education, and are trying to provide stable homes. It's especially hard for one of these families because of health problems; but they are working really hard at it. Our family has discreetly helped out.

The mother in the third family has children by four different people, her 20 year old deals drugs in the driveway, her 17 year old son has fathered two children, and her daughter was caught shoplifting. This woman is doing the Klan's job for it: she says, "My kids are niggers. What do you expect?"

The worst racists in this country are those who refuse to challenge people to take responsibility for their own choices. They have created a Welfare system in which people are penalized for taking initiative. They champion the sexual revolution, with all of its emphasis of pleasure and denial of responsibility. Responsible manhood and fatherhood denigrated and ridiculed in the public media. Many teens, black and white, have no comprehension of dating that doesn't include casual sex.

No, it's not racism causing these problems. It's the entire liberal mindset.

End rant. My turn to breathe into a paper bag.

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