Huffington Post: Killer Mike Is More Politically Dangerous Than Kanye

[RamsayBolton]

You're minimizing the situation by making a joke but illegal immigration is a huge issue regarding the future of black Americans

As opposed to white supremacist republicans?

 

[Wargames]

You're minimizing the situation by making a joke but illegal immigration is a huge issue regarding the future of black Americans

Bro I’ve had this debate before. I get the argument we are competing with them and their anchor babies for resources. The issue is none of this will end illegal immigration. You want to end it, heavily fine and imprison employers who hire them. Giving the a cot in a dorm and a warm meal is not why those fukkers travel hundreds of miles to America. Charity is not the cause of the immigration crisis. Also maybe figuring a way to tax them so that revenue is spent here instead of their home country would be pretty damn good too.

Meanwhile your politically supporting the descendants of the KKK that will imprison you and Juan and gladly watch you both suffer.

 

[O.Red]

As opposed to white supremacist republicans?

This is the exact same shyt I was talking about earlier in the thread I'm not minimizing Republicans but on the same token I'm gonna push back on minimizing illegal immigration with shaming tactics like the shyt ain't a major issue

 

[Robbie3000]

As opposed to white supremacist republicans?

You’re forgetting how well we had it when whites outnumbered us 90% to 10%.

The good old days of Jim Crow where we had no political power, but a monopoly on jobs washing white people’s toilets and picking their fruits.

 

[O.Red]

Bro I’ve had this debate before. I get the argument we are competing with them and their anchor babies for resources. The issue is none of this will end illegal immigration. You want to end it, heavily fine and imprison employers who hire them. Giving the a cot in a dorm and a warm meal is not why those fukkers travel hundreds of miles to America. Charity is not the cause of the immigration crisis. Also maybe figuring a way to tax them so that revenue is spent here instead of their home country would be pretty damn good too.

Meanwhile your politically supporting the descendants of the KKK that will imprison you and Juan and gladly watch you both suffer.

Who did I politically support in this thread? What reason was there to jump to that conclusion?

Again with this halo effect on democrats like they also don't have KKK descendants

And your post is a contradiction because you acknowledge the frequent hiring of them then try to boogeyman with that "imprison you" shyt when Republicans are HIRING the Juans


Again the minimizing of real issues and shaming tactics is what has nikkas saying fukk y'all then

 

[O.Red]

You’re forgetting how well we had it when whites outnumbered us 90% to 10%.

The good old days of Jim Crow where we had no political power, but a monopoly on jobs washing white people’s toilets and picking their fruits.

Rhetoric like this is outdated, borderline elitist,and indicative of attitudes from people that don't actually see the shyt theyre talking about

Thinking all these immigrants do is pick fruit and scrub toilets is some 2005 shyt to say

You need some construction, plumbing, or electrical work done in Texas 15 times out of 10 a Juan is showing up. Those toilet scrubbers have cleaning companies now.

Again it's easy to make jokes about it when you're not seeing it in a capacity to consider it serious. It's also easy to act like black people are at a point when we're above certain work when we're not much better off financially than we were 60 years ago

We're arguably doing worse

 

[Eternally Jaded]

A gay nikka defending Stacey Abrams. Shocking.

I don't rock with em either but is he lying? Truth is truth.

 

[Darkling]

Can someone ask ored how an undocumented person can have a company
or be an electrician
who would have juan with no license rewire their house?
lol

I have him on ignore
thank you

 

[Robbie3000]

Rhetoric like this is outdated, borderline elitist,and indicative of attitudes from people that don't actually see the shyt theyre talking about

Thinking all these immigrants do is pick fruit and scrub toilets is some 2005 shyt to say

You need some construction, plumbing, or electrical work done in Texas 15 times out of 10 a Juan is showing up. Those toilet scrubbers have cleaning companies now.

Again it's easy to make jokes about it when you're not seeing it in a capacity to consider it serious. It's also easy to act like black people are at a point when we're above certain work when we're not much better off financially than we were 60 years ago

We're arguably doing worse

Who is stopping black people in Texas from doing construction, plumbing, electrical work or creating cleaning companies? My homegirl quit her six figure corporate job in Atlanta to open a cleaning businesses and she’s doing well.

But you’re a lost cause if you are pining for the days of Jim Crow. It’s obvious as long as whites are in total control of the economy, you don’t have any issues. But it’s an affront to you to see some brown people earn a living doing jobs which Americans obviously are not pursuing.

Don’t you feel stupid spouting off white right wing talking points like a trained parrot?

 

[O.Red]

Who is stopping black people in Texas from doing construction, plumbing, electrical work or creating cleaning companies? My homegirl quit her six figure corporate job in Atlanta to open a cleaning businesses and she’s doing well.

But you’re a lost cause if you are pining for the days of Jim Crow. It’s obvious as long as whites are in total control of the economy, you don’t have any issues. But it’s an affront to you to see some brown people earn a living doing jobs which Americans obviously are not pursuing.

Don’t you feel stupid spouting off white right wing talking points like a trained parrot?

shaming tactics

 

[Robbie3000]

shaming tactics

You should feel shame for pining for the days of Jim Crow. But “free thinking” c00ns are impervious to shame. That’s why they are are “free thinking” c00ns.

 

[voltronblack]

It's also easy to act like black people are at a point when we're above certain work when we're not much better off financially than we were 60 years ago

We're arguably doing worse

Your right

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/26/report-no-progress-for-african-americans-on-homeownership-unemployment-and-incarceration-in-50-years/

Fifty years after the historic Kerner Commission identified “white racism” as the key cause of “pervasive discrimination in employment, education and housing,” there has been no progress in how African Americans fare in comparison to whites when it comes to homeownership, unemployment and incarceration, according to a report released Monday by the Economic Policy Institute.
In some cases, African Americans are worse off today than they were before the civil rights movement culminated in laws barring housing and voter discrimination, as well as racial segregation.

• 7.5 percent of African Americans were unemployed in 2017, compared with 6.7 percent in 1968 — still roughly twice the white unemployment rate.

• The rate of homeownership, one of the most important ways for working- and middle-class families to build wealth, has remained virtually unchanged for African Americans in the past 50 years. Black homeownership remains just over 40 percent, trailing 30 points behind the rate for whites, who have seen modest gains during that time.

• The share of incarcerated African Americans has nearly tripled between 1968 and 2016 — one of the largest and most depressing developments in the past 50 years, especially for black men, researchers said. African Americans are 6.4 times as likely than whites to be jailed or imprisoned, compared with 5.4 times as likely in 1968.

“We have not seen progress because we still have not addressed the issue of racial inequality in this country,” said John Schmitt, an economist and vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, citing the racial wealth gap and continuing racial discrimination in the labor and housing markets. “One of the key issues is the disadvantages so many African Americans face, right from the very beginning as children.”

The wealth gap between white and black Americans has more than tripled in the past 50 years, according to Federal Reserve data. The typical black family had zero wealth in 1968. Today the median net worth of white families — $171,000 — is 10 times that of black families.

The wealth black families have accumulated is negligible when it comes to the amount of money needed to meet basic needs during retirement, pay for children’s college education, put a down payment on a house, or cope with a job loss or medical crisis, Schmitt said.

The lack of economic progress is especially startling, given that black educational attainment has improved significantly in the past five decades, Schmitt said. African Americans are almost as likely as whites to have completed high school. In 1968, 54 percent of blacks graduated from high school, compared with 75 percent of whites. Today, more than 90 percent of African Americans have a high school diploma, 3.3 percentage points shy of the high school completion rate for whites.

The share of young African Americans with a college degree has more than doubled, to 23 percent, since 1968, although blacks are still half as likely as whites to have completed college.

Yet the hourly wage of a typical black worker grew by just 0.6 percent a year since 1968. African Americans make 82.5 cents of every dollar earned by the typical white worker, the report said. And the typical black household earns 61.6 percent of the annual income of white households, with black college graduates continuing to make less than white college graduates.

Despite the poverty rate dropping from more than a third of black households in 1968 to about a fifth of black households, African Americans are 2½ times as likely to be in poverty than whites.

“We would have expected to see much more of a narrowing of the gap, given the big increase in educational attainment among African Americans,” Schmitt said.

A book, “Healing Our Divided Society,” to be released Tuesday at a D.C. forum, also examines how little progress has been made in the past 50 years.

Housing and schools have become resegregated, “locking too many African Americans into slums and their children into inferior schools.” White supremacists have become emboldened. And there is too much excessive use of force — often deadly — by police, especially against African Americans, notes the book, co-edited by Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator and sole surviving member of the Kerner Commission.

“Whereas the Kerner Commission called for ‘massive and sustained’ investment in economic, employment and education initiatives, over the last 50 years America has pursued ‘massive and sustained’ incarceration framed as ‘law and order,’ ” the book says. “Mass incarceration has become a kind of housing policy for the poor.”

The 1968 Kerner Commission report ended on a note of deja vu, citing a witness who recalled similar analyses, recommendations and, ultimately, inaction following a government investigation nearly 50 years earlier after the 1919 Chicago riot.

“The destruction and the bitterness of racial disorder, the harsh polemics of black revolt and white repression have been seen and heard before in this country,” the report concluded.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

The gap between the wealth of Black and White Americans, one of the starkest benchmarks of inequality in the US, is on track to widen substantially after the pandemic exacerbated wealth concentration, according to new data that details 160 years of racial wealth disparities for the first time.
Black Americans in 2019 had one-sixth the wealth of White Americans on an average, per capita basis, according to analysis in a paper this month from economists Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick. Though that’s a drastic improvement from the 60-to-one ratio in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, it’s still less than what they had in the 1980s.

“The recent role of capital gains in the widening of the racial wealth gap paints a sobering picture for the future of racial wealth convergence,” the authors wrote in the paper, circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
“In the absence of policy interventions or other forces leading to improvements in the relative wealth-accumulating conditions of Black Americans, wealth convergence is not only a distant scenario, but an impossible one,” they said.
The pandemic saw wealth concentration reach its highest level since World War II, Derenoncourt, from Princeton University; and Kim, Kuhn and Schularick, of the University of Bonn in Germany, said.

Should current wealth-accumulating conditions continue for coming generations, they estimate the level of White-to-Black wealth could reach 8.4 by 2200 from around 5.6 in 2019. In that year, Black wealth stood at $60,125.58 compared to $338,092.80 for non-Black households.

Wealth Chasm​

The gap between Black and White wealth has widened since the 1980s

Source: Analysis by Derenoncourt, Kim, Kuhn, Schularick.

The failure of the Black and White wealth gap to narrow since the 1980s can in large part be attributed to the types of assets that make up each group’s holdings. Black households hold nearly two-thirds of their wealth in housing and very little of it in stocks, while White Americans own shares of publicly traded companies in much greater numbers. In the past 70 years, stocks have appreciated five times as much as housing prices.
But the vast chasm between White and Black wealth following emancipation -- when Black Americans were freed from bondage without receiving reparations for the nearly 250 years of US enslavement -- would ensure a wealth gap today even if Black Americans hadn’t been left out of major wealth-building opportunities in the past 160 years, the authors found.

Doing the Math: Slavery’s Unrelenting Cost on U.S. Black Wealth
“Even under equal conditions for wealth accumulation after slavery, in other words, identical savings rates and capital gains across the two groups, our convergence model portends a racial wealth gap of 3 to 1 today,” they wrote.
The authors find that policies that marry reparations with ones targeting portfolio composition changes could one day lead to a convergence in White and Black wealth, but it could take hundreds of years.
“Nevertheless, we argue these approaches are complementary, as policies that redistribute stocks of wealth without addressing racial gaps in savings and capital gains have but a transient effect on the wealth gap,” they wrote.
The Federal Reserve has published wealth data by race since 1989, but not much data is available before that. The economists created their dataset, which dates back to 1860, in part by using census figures and by digitizing 50 years’ worth of southern state tax reports.
The gap between the wealth of Black and White Americans, one of the starkest benchmarks of inequality in the US, is on track to widen substantially after the pandemic exacerbated wealth concentration, according to new data that details 160 years of racial wealth disparities for the first time.
Black Americans in 2019 had one-sixth the wealth of White Americans on an average, per capita basis, according to analysis in a paper this month from economists Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick. Though that’s a drastic improvement from the 60-to-one ratio in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, it’s still less than what they had in the 1980s.

 

[O.Red]

Your right

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/26/report-no-progress-for-african-americans-on-homeownership-unemployment-and-incarceration-in-50-years/

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

I wasn't exaggerating. I've seen the numbers

 

[OfTheCross]

This Rapper Is More Politically Dangerous Than Kanye West

Killer Mike cozied up with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate candidate Herschel Walker allowing legitimacy to their campaigns with the Black community.

www.huffpost.com

Killer Mike uses his platform and voice to hurt the people he claims to care so much about. It’s a strange dichotomy watching a man who raps about the death of Eric Garner make nice with Kemp while actively hurting the Black woman who helped save America from a second Trump presidency. And that’s way more dangerous than any stupid racist rant from a rapper whose better days appear to be behind him.

Killer Mike praised Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) for “running an effective campaign.” He added Kemp “went to an all-Black boys school that’s run [sic] by a conservative Black man down in Albany, Georgia.” He couldn’t have been more proud of Kemp’s work reaching out to the Black community — despite having effectively and consistently tried to prevent them from voting.

Killer Mike implied that Kemp’s opponent — in 2018 and this year — Stacey Abrams needs to go “everywhere Mr. Kemp just went” as if she’s not leading in every statistical categoryamong Black voters. He doesn’t seem to understand that Abrams is of the Black community. She doesn’t need to visit the community she’s a part of. What he has done here is what makes him so dangerous. He’s positioning himself as a Black voice of reason instead of a shill for the Republican party. So when Killer Mike spouts ridiculous claims implying that Abrams isn’t doing enough Black outreach, she’s forced to answer despite it not being a concern.

If Killer Mike was actually in the business of promoting Black progress, then Kemp would be his mortal enemy. Kemp would be the last person he’d forge a friendship with. But none of that stopped Killer Mike from sitting with the Impaler of the Black Vote.

HuffPo drawing attention to something that doesn't need it.

It's innocuous to say that Brian Kemp has run a good campaign.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Ive never seen neo-nazis say "Killer Mike was right"



Author can kick rocks