Mainstreet USA Chicago Illinois - 27 Aug 07 - Part 1

Al Jazeera's Dave Marash explores Cabrini Green, a notorious public housing development on the north side of Chicago now largely pulled down, and talks to residents, many of whom allege they were hastily forced into other slums, and denied social services to get a leg up in society.

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[iuseNERFbullets]

How do you suppose they get a job (not a minimum wage job that would barely afford monthly rent, let alone any other bills or necessities) when their public schools don't have proper supplies and students who aren't in gangs are beaten and intimidated to join a gang (honestly, you get beat into joining)? If it was such a simple solution, it would have been solved by now. Please don't think you're the first to spout that garbage...

[everett0]

Blacks were originally from Africa. Our ancestors were chained, beaten and brought here against their wills, by a white man. There was not one black man captaining a ship loaded with slaves coming to America. If your white men were not so weak that they could not even work their own land, and the women so timid, they could not care for their own children, let alone clean their own homes, we wouldn't have had to be kidnapped and taken against our will. Whites brought us here, now deal with it!!

[2211JW]

@everett0 White man frreed you from slavery and look what you've done with it.

Black race is trash and always will be. Lazy dirty criminal scum.

White Man IS dealing with you ... because you can't get up off your lazy god-damned nigger ass.

[DrCruel]

@newbutthunt And sometimes a troll is a troll but don't know it.

Peace be upon you, Shortie. Good luck with your hunt.

[newbutthunt]

@DrCruel The term anti-semite in itself is propaganda, and if you believe CM hated thee so-called "jews" I got a bridge on Mars guy...sometimes you gotta read between the lines, truth doesn't always smack you in the face,sometimes you gotta look for it.

[DrCruel]

@newbutthunt Now I'm really confused, because Charles Manson was an anti-Semite too. So what does that make you then?

[newbutthunt]

@DrCruel Satanism comes "wrapped" in many packages or has a version to suit any time frame or culture, I liken it to how Charles Manson "wrapped" himself in the "peace" or "hippie" movement but was just flat out evil...where there's evil, deception is never far away. btw satanism is a means to gain "economic affluence" or fame, the word "Genie" or "Jinn" means Demon.

[DrCruel]

The irony of the American version of "poverty" is that it is born of great wealth. These so-called "poor" are richer than most people in the world. They have access to considerable amounts of disposable income - which is what helps fuel the lucrative drug trade in such places. The welfare system that supports these ghettos not only enables irresponsible pregnancies, it actively promotes it.

It would be easy to fix such a place. Simply cut funding to nothing. Use the savings to hire police.

[DrCruel]

@newbutthunt Jews were enslaved by Muslims as well - which is ironic, because both Christianity and Islam are heretical Jewish religious sects.

But let's think about your premise for a moment. What then ought I to think of Black Jews? Oriental Jews? If Judaism is "Satanism", why then are the most civilized and peaceful places in the world those same places with the greatest tolerance for Jews? Am I thus to assume that Satanism promotes cultural tolerance, economic affluence and peace?

[newbutthunt]

@DrCruel Blame the "Jews" not the white man, Judaism is a Religion and is really satanism...the so-called "Jews" have been know as a "race" of magicians", see it for what it is, and not what the "Jew" controlled mainstream media conglomerate wants you perceive it to be.

[inkey2]

the problem is who is going to want to buy a condo in an area with public housing?

[DrCruel]

@everett0 ... In fact, slavery in Africa hasn't ended. To this day, black Muslims own black slaves from amongst the non-Muslim peoples of Africa. They use them as labor for their lands, for sex, or indeed for whatever they please.

Slavery in Africa predated the Euopean Age of Discovery, and has survived long after slavery in the West was abolished.

If you want to be bigotted against all "white people", you'll have to use something other than history to support your racism and prejudice.