Whether menthol or Orenthal, I am killing y’all/smoke in the mirrors like somebody left the shower on … the top three reasons you are not free/you want to shop, eat, and live next to the Mach 3/white flight, black flight, nobody left/but the poor people, city go tax ‘em to death
I was glad to hear the reporting and analysis of the Brian Flores lawsuit from the good brother @ProfBlackistone on @MorningEdition today. Looking forward to hearing more from him on this situation as it unfolds.
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@FendiMandela@skippcoon I def can believe that. What I mentioned offhand to @skippcoon years ago still rings true. People don’t want parity. They just don’t want to be on the wrong side of disparity. To live in relative luxury means a lot of folks have to live in abject poverty.
@stroopwfafel But that’s not really true. It has never been proven that police prevent crime. That’s not their job. They respond to it. Healthy communities stop crime, and police are not a significant factor in creating healthy communities.
Here is something I don’t understand: how does the recent spike in violent crime undermine calls to defund or abolish police?
Clearly, the police cannot solve the problem or they would have done so already. Am I wrong?
Also, I am very tired of people (some in, mostly around) Jackson decrying the murder rate. You don’t care if we have jobs, water, fully funded schools, a viable public transit system, living wages, access to health care, etc. Why do you care about this?