This post is full of stupidity, where to start:
zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-09-11 09:27 PM
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13. "in the hood"?
what do you mean by that?
are saying "in the ghetto"? Because "hood" is slang for "ghetto".
leaving aside the racial implications, your long winded answer that essentially boils down to "they have no cars" is utterly ridiculous and way too simplistic.
there are many reasons riots start and end in cities.
to name a few:
poverty
discrimination
lousy schools
high unemployment
lack of housing
crap healthcare
overcrowding
weather
police brutality
the reason they don't usually spread to your nice little suburb is that, like an incendiary fire, a riot burns itself out(coupled with a law enforcement crackdown) and usually last a few days.
why get in a car and go to your country club when they can just torch something nearby?
why loot a store in Beverly Hills, when there is a Circuit City not to far down the street?
and man is a species that likes familiarity. so sticking close to home isn't shocking.
well, maybe it is to you. but as a student of history, I am not surprised.
I'm a honky, actually that's what the blacks in my neighborhood called people like me, I lived in a crime infested cess pool, enough was enough, so my Parents up and moved, so I'm more than qualified to answer your post.
poverty yeah? so what? we were poor, the whites in my neighborhood were poor, and we had hard working blacks and hispanics who were poor, we didn't resort to violence, but overwhelmingly the violence in our neighborhood were perpetrated by blacks, not white, not asians, not hispanics.
discrimination yeah? how long has that card been played now? how does the left explain successful blacks who've come here from africa? hispanics? asians? etc.
lousy schools it's not lousy schools, if anything, around here? money is taken from taxpayers in other counties and shoved into the "poor schools" but why are the schools lousy? it wouldn't have anything to do with Parents who don't give a crap?
high unemployment why is unemployment high? in the words of Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia
“Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer,†Mr. Nutter, the city’s third black mayor, said in an angry lecture aimed at black teens. “Pull your pants up and buy a belt ‘cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.â€
“If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ‘cause you look like you’re crazy,†the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.â€
lack of housing you have no idea how quite a few "poor people" cause destruction to homes they live in, I've seen it, and they don't care, they don't own it, why should they care?
crap healthcare and why is that? maybe because taxpayers have been driven out of those neighborhoods?
overcrowding there was overcrowding in the tenements in the 30's and 40's, you ever see the stuff going on then that's going on now?
weather
police brutality perceived brutality, chances are a kid has a better chance of being harmed in their own neighborhood by their own kind then they would ever get hurt by a cop, and until that fact is recognized it'll just be the same old same old.