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Shivering Jemmy

(900 posts)
4. The author observes something
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 08:46 AM
Mar 2013

That I've seen. Recent immigrants to America don't often recognize that racism has taken a long term toll on inner city communities...so they blame the residents for their poverty.

100% support and solidarity for Mayor Nutter, one of the great people in the nation graham4anything Mar 2013 #1
Yet the same Nutter is trying to break the city unions BumRushDaShow Mar 2013 #10
Teachers too proud2BlibKansan Mar 2013 #18
I am a white woman. I work in predominantly black neighborhoods, often being the only white person Squinch Mar 2013 #2
Robert Huber is not a woman. He is the writer. cali Mar 2013 #3
Wow, thanks. I don't know why I thought it was a woman, even after reading the whole thing. Squinch Mar 2013 #5
I would have liked Mr. Huber to interview some of the long-time Black homeowners south of Girard. msanthrope Mar 2013 #9
I'll defer to your knowledge, as a resident of the community being discussed, BUT Squinch Mar 2013 #12
I respectfully disagree with you on a particular point--not one of those interviewed would have msanthrope Mar 2013 #19
OK. I am probably missing some nuances that are clear to people in the local area. Squinch Mar 2013 #21
Very cogent points about the "seemingly permanent black underclass"...... socialist_n_TN Mar 2013 #14
The author observes something Shivering Jemmy Mar 2013 #4
Ahem--this is where I live. The exact neighborhood. And I know every, single person he talked to. msanthrope Mar 2013 #6
Thank you - Halloween ever since I can remember . . . hatrack Mar 2013 #7
Exactly....no teen dresses up, and they are all a bit snotty...so my husband and I msanthrope Mar 2013 #8
Yup. Most as they get older don't dress up, but still want free candy. graham4anything Mar 2013 #11
My wife and I tell the teen trick-or-treaters, MineralMan Mar 2013 #15
Last year, one paused long enough from her smartphone to snap my picture, in full costume, msanthrope Mar 2013 #16
We love it. This past year we had almost 200 MineralMan Mar 2013 #17
I get at least 300. I've got a reputation. I know how to make a toe-pincher msanthrope Mar 2013 #20
Every so often when the local media is bored BumRushDaShow Mar 2013 #13
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