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Originally Posted by WaKtickets
I'd start by making sure all guns have access to education, then maybe the guns will stop being so violent. OR you could idk, prosecute criminals, enforce laws already on the books, invest money into youth programs to try to get the next generation out of the gang lifestyles that are so popular today.
Fwiw, I was on the boards of a local community organization, the Chair of a non-profit mental health clinic and on the board of a very fine community center that ran all sorts of after school and educational programs. I'm sure that these made some difference but the problem is huge, too huge for the resources being spent on it and some of it is misguided for a variety of reasons.
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Either you were a lot less racist back then, or they all also thought you were racist. IDK which. Given your ability to relay a simple anecdote, I don't believe you, basically. I mean, FFS, you told a story ITT about black community leaders NOT endorsing Stop and Frisk in a MUCH HIGHER CRIME ERA, and somehow thought that they meant they would support it now.
But you didn't answer my question. It's like half a dozen people just on this page of this thread, openly calling you a racist to your face. Right to your face! No hedging, no nothing, just a bunch of dudes making fun of how racist ole' Howard Beale is.
Why do you think so many people think you're a racist?
I said that the topic of Stop and Frisk never came up so there was no question of the community leaders endorsing it or not. I know that I never thought of it and nobody else ever brought it up. But somehow you read into that that the Black community leaders did not endorse what was never offered up. How can you explain such a lack of comprehension? To me it's clear that you see through an irreplaceable, impenetrable biased lens. You do not read to understand, you don't think, you don't mull things over, you simply react in a very boring and predictable way. Why not change it up a little? Find some new phraseology, do something so that, when I read your replies I don't think that you shouldn't have bothered since I could write them for you.
As for your insistence on an answer to your second point I think that I'm being called a racist on this board by a number of ppl right to my face bec they think that I'm a racist. It doesn't bother me in the least since they are reflective of a bias in the typical 2p2 politics poster. If you brought the conversation to a broader audience you would find different results and I would then be able to ask you why you thought so many ppl were calling you an imbecile.
ETA: I was INVITED to the meetings that I mentioned, invited for a reason. I was invited along (and wish I hadn't gone) to go w/ a delegation from
The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition to lobby in Albany for a reason. I was asked to be on the boards of the groups I mentioned for a reason. I was asked to be on the board of the local Urban League (had to decline bec I was overwhelmed) for a reason. I had local politicians calling me for help for a reason. I was featured in an article in NY Magazine for a reason, as well as being in the NYT and the Daily News. I have an Award for National Excellence for a reason.
I mentioned 'actual Black person' and I have many in mind but the most 'interesting' one might be the guy in his 20's who looked like one of those huge Black men you see in prison movies, the type that would make you just kill yourself and get it over with if you were put in a cell w/ him. I used to hand out w/ him regularly, shot the breeze, etc. Then one day he was on the cover of the NY Post bec he'd killed 3 ppl in a shoe store robbery. I hung out w/ him for years, alone. He knew I had money on me. He was never anything but friendly w/ me. Why didn't he rob me? It would've been a lot easier. I put it down to the fact that he knew and liked me. I wish that I could take you back in time to that guy so you could tell him that I am a racist. Frankly I think you'd **** your pants first.
Last edited by Howard Beale; 07-10-2014 at 01:32 AM.