Lesser Steve Has A "Friend" In Baltimore

[txradioguy]

stevenleser (22,842 posts)

Statement from a friend who grew up in Baltimore
 
"Look. I'm a Baltimore kid. Nobody wants violence, but people have been pushed to the limit and massive peaceful protests have resulted in no material legislation and no national agenda. What the hell do people expect to happen? -chet..."

 The other side of that, a profoundly sad side, is that Chet talks about how parts of Baltimore that were destroyed 40-50 years ago in riots that happened still aren't rebuilt.

(Picture removed by me)
 That's Chet on the left with Charlie

https://www.facebook.com/chet.whye?fref=ts

stevenleser (22,842 posts)

1. My responses to Chet's posts
 
Shared this story on one of my favorite forums. I also remember how you mentioned that parts of Baltimore that were destroyed in riots in the 1960s and 1970s are still not rebuilt. Seems to me that if money were invested in the community to not only rebuild those neighborhoods but in other jobs and better training and screening for law enforcement and the other programs as you alluded to via good local and national legislation and a national agenda to create opportunities, we could solve all of this in one stroke. Without that, with how bad things are, I can totally understand the desire and perhaps need to act out and riot.
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Way too many people of color being beaten and killed by the police. Thank providence for smart phones and their cameras.

In a way you're right Lesser Steve...but the color that gets beaten and killed by the police more than anyone is white.

stevenleser (22,842 posts)

4. More from Chet...
 
Listen. Many of the young picking up a rock do not have a chance in hell of picking up a job this summer. Yet we willfully spend the money to over-police them, to prosecute them, to incarcerate them and to payout settlements for police abuse. Many, many protests in the past year, but if 'nothing' continues to happen, Baltimore is the first explosion of the next level of response. That's not an endorsement - that's a fact. -chet...

A low post count freeper troll tries to inject some common sense into the conversation witht he usual results.

NobodyHere (457 posts)

5. Maybe if Baltimore didn't burn down it's businesses
 
There might be more job opportunities.

Look guy if you're gonna mole at DU...you can't use logic and facts in your posts.  DUmmies hate that stuff.

heaven05 (9,139 posts)

19. oh please
 
enough!!!!!! With that tripe.....no jobs in the first place and police abuse is the reason........black people by and large don't own businesses in black communities....and those who do own the businesses in the black communities...by and large.....employ their family members.....period. One dimensional, blame the victim tripe.

Told ya!

Next one has the head scratcher comment of the entire thread IMO

libdem4life (5,386 posts)

11. Or, if a kid hadn't been hassled, ticketed, fined, incarcerated for "meeting the eyes" a policeman
 
they might qualify for a job. Once you get a "record"...and seems the police are willing to render that possibility while the kids are still in high school, then what?

Baltimore hasn't "burned down its businesses" for 30 years. I had credit problems, and with a strong professional history, degree, licenses, I still can't find a job. You might check for one-liner judgements that make no sense.

Here's another idea...ask Obama not to send more jobs overseas and get the Republicans to get off their lily whites and pass some legislation that actually supports poor and lower-middle class, while cutting food stamps, SS for the elderly, probably public assistance, too.

Busted for "meeting the eyes" of a cop...ie looking him in the eye when they are addressing you gets you arrested?   That's a new one on me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026581714

[Carl]

Useless animals.

[Big Dog]

Lil Stevie

 
Nobody wants violence, but people have been pushed to the limit

Big Dog's Rule of Big 'Buts' applies. Everything to the left of the Big But is a lie.

and massive peaceful protests have resulted in no material legislation and no national agenda.

A socialist wanting a national agenda. Hmmm... where have we seen that before?

What the hell do people expect to happen?

Followed by...

[franksolich]

Question.

About Baltimore not having been rebuilt after riots of circa 50 years ago.

Does anybody know when the last time was, that Baltimore ever had an (R) mayor, or an (R) city council, running the place?

[txradioguy]

Question.

About Baltimore not having been rebuilt after riots of circa 50 years ago.

Does anybody know when the last time was, that Baltimore ever had an (R) mayor, or an (R) city council, running the place?

Last Republican Mayor - Theodore R. McKeldin: 1963-1967

Only info I could find on Republican city council members was a refernce that said 6 Black Republicans were elected to the city council after 1890.

[landofconfusion80]

Question.

About Baltimore not having been rebuilt after riots of circa 50 years ago.

Does anybody know when the last time was, that Baltimore ever had an (R) mayor, or an (R) city council, running the place?

Interesting, there was a Republican in '43 that was then followed by three consecutive Democrats.  The same Republican got voted in again in '63-67.  Been solid blue ever since.

[SVPete]

... Chet talks about how parts of Baltimore that were destroyed 40-50 years ago in riots that happened still aren't rebuilt.

So, if rioting accomplished less than nothing "40-50 years ago", what kind of believes creating more wasteland in majority black neighborhoods will result in anything different. There are four simple steps to changing things:

1.) Get an education, in something useful;

2.) Ignore the fools and thugs who condemn you for "acting white";

3.) Get a burger-flipper job to demonstrate willingness to work;

4.) Keep ignoring the fools and thugs who condemn you for "acting white";

5.) Move away from the loser fools and thugs who condemn you for "acting white" and into your chosen career-path;

6.) Laugh at the loser fools and thugs who condemned you for "acting white".

[HawkHogan]

Dummies watched House of Cards and want the federal government to create jobs out of thin air. 

[FiddyBeowulf]

Busted for "meeting the eyes" of a cop...ie looking him in the eye when they are addressing you gets you arrested?   That's a new one on me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026581714

Probably got it from a movie where the phrase "...are you eyeballin' me boy?" was used.

[FiddyBeowulf]

libdem4life (5,386 posts)

11. Or, if a kid hadn't been hassled, ticketed, fined, incarcerated for "meeting the eyes" a policeman
 
they might qualify for a job. Once you get a "record"...and seems the police are willing to render that possibility while the kids are still in high school, then what?

Go to work for the Koch brothers.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-27/why-the-kochs-won-t-ask-about-criminal-history-on-job-applications-anymore     

[Chris_]

New minimum wage at looted Baltimore businesses:  $0/hour. 

[txradioguy]

New minimum wage at looted Baltimore businesses:  $0/hour.

I'm gonna have to borrow that one.

[HawkHogan]

New minimum wage at looted Baltimore businesses:  $0/hour.

Haha.  That's awesome. 

There's no way that athletic store reopens.  That owner is disgusted with these cretins. 

[thundley4]

The other side of that, a profoundly sad side, is that Chet talks about how parts of Baltimore that were destroyed 40-50 years ago in riots that happened still aren't rebuilt.

Once bitten, twice shy. People with money don't want to throw it in the toilet and flush it down the drain.  There are places in many large cities that suffered race riots and businesses left and never returned.

[GOBUCKS]

Once bitten, twice shy. People with money don't want to throw it in the toilet and flush it down the drain.

Unless they are congressmen and senators, wasting billions every year on blue hellhole cities.

[98ZJUSMC]

parts of Baltimore that were destroyed 40-50 years ago in riots that happened still aren't rebuilt.

No.....really?

[HawkHogan]

No.....really?

"Why won't you build more stores in our neighborhoods so we can loot them whenever we get mad."

[delilahmused]

It's ****ing sick what decades of democrat rule has done to minorities in the inner cities. Back on the plantation by white, racist leftists.

Cindie

[thundley4]

It's ****ing sick what decades of democrat rule has done to minorities in the inner cities. Back on the plantation by white, racist leftists.

Cindie

For a long time it was white democrats running the plantations in cities, now they have black overseers do the work for them.