I'm Black and 'Well-Behaved,' but I'm Still Mike Brown

[donquixote99]

It's text on the internet. Glyph of mild sarcasm not seen. Sorry, forget it.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

C'mon...are you serious? You really thought I was being anything but mildly sarcastic? We all get overly intense from time to time, but IMHO clinical opinion you really need to lighten up, man.

"Lighten-up" was specifically removed from the diagnostic criteria of the new DSM-5. (It's a joke, Don.)

I hope that with the recent changes here everyone can lighten up. Everyone's skin is still sensitive from the flame wars.

Aloe Vera for everybody, on me!

[donquixote99]

Will it give me a lovely even complexion, like yours?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

It's text on the internet. Glyph of mild sarcasm not seen. Sorry, forget it.

Okey-dokey.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Will it give me a lovely even complexion, like yours?

That takes years to develop.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by icenine

Chris Matthews was interviewing the Mayor of Ferguson, who seems like a nice guy but sort of disconnected from it all. Matthews was sort of trying to probe him about what was going on in his town and his response was to the effect that "people move in and out too much." Which I did not understand but maybe he meant that people in Brown's part of town move there because they simply are too poor to live anywhere else, and simply move on once they can escape to a better place or worse have to move on if they cannot afford Ferguson.

I tend to be believe that a LOT of the sort of issues that we see in the breakdown of society are -- inherently -- economic problems and nothing else.

Nobody chooses to live in a ghetto and, in a perfect world, ghettos would not exist.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I tend to be believe that a LOT of the sort of issues that we see in the breakdown of society are -- inherently -- economic problems and nothing else.

Nobody chooses to live in a ghetto and, in a perfect world, ghettos would not exist.

Your last sentence is pretty correct. The preceding one, less so. I think in many cases, people live in ghettos because it's hard for them to find someone who will rent to them, anywhere else. And I think that reluctance is not 'an economic problem and nothing else.'

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

YI think that reluctance is not 'an economic problem and nothing else.'

If you have $$$, reluctance goes away.

That strikes me as economic.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Zeke

If you have $$$, reluctance goes away.

That strikes me as economic.

Our ideas of what is real and true differ.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Zeke

If you have $$$, reluctance goes away.

That strikes me as economic.

You don't go from very little to $$$ in one step. Therein lies the rub.
There is a way by winning the lottery and states are more than willing to help people here.