Problems Ukraine doesn’t have
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I just had the following exchange, excerpts from emails beginning with his, with about the only guy I know still living in California.
He: Now, cleaning up after my tenant took off owing me thousands, plus the damages.
Me: I got out of the landlord business a quarter of a century back, after just such experiences. They didn't deal with a stopped-up toilet upstairs until the kitchen ceiling was falling down. No need to guess of what hue the tenants were.
He: I don't think we need to be racist about it. It's everybody who is poor. They expect more than they deserve and are no satisfied with less.
The simple word “hue” tells him the whole story. He knows enough to know of whom I am speaking, and is politically correct enough to call me on it.
The situation is turning around in the United States. Donald Trump is a beacon of hope to founding Americans like me, who have long been viciously suppressed for talking about what they see. Way before his time was John Derbyshire, who lost his newspaper column in 2012 for stating the obvious. More recent is Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, at minute 14:30 of this Coffee with Scott Adams episode from a couple of years ago. Adams is rich and expects to die of prostate cancer this year. He can afford to say what he thinks.
But truths are still being suppressed. Here is a stomach-wrenching video that the major television and print outlets – the article cites AP , Fox News , PBS , NYT , NPR , ABC , NBC , CNN , WaPo , and MSNBC – refuse to comment on. I had read about it for days before seeing this video on Revolver News.
This is nothing new. In the 1950s, as I grew up in El Cerrito, California, we had Chinese and Mexican minorities but no crime. Nobody locked their doors. We always feared racial violence in neighboring Richmond. The Governor of California just before Ronald Reagan sent me to the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965, carrying a rifle, to quell race riots. In 1966 it was Hunters Point, San Francisco.
France, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden -all of western Europe – are experiencing similar problems today. The authorities are working strenuously to jail, not the perpetrators, but the indigenous European population, when they object too vociferously to being murdered, to their daughters being groomed and raped, and to paying for a huge and increasing welfare burden supporting ne’er-do-wells.
People continually ask why I stay in Kyiv despite Putin. The answer is simple. Ukraine will be able to withstand Russia. The United States and Western Europe have not withstood the forces that are destroying them from within.
Way back 60 years ago or so, before LBJ's Great Society and the Democratic welfare state wrecked the black family and the black community - and "urban renewal" had a huge part in that as well, by bulldozing stable black communities and giving the people whose property was taken by eminent domain insufficient amounts to go out and buy new houses - or any houses at all - turning them into a permanent renter class. They were, to a great proportion, turned into a dependent population and infantilized. And, of course, infants are not responsible and make messes of things. And at least three generations of black males (to a great extent) have never had the discipline meted out by black fathers and strong black role models to make black male children into adults, because the nice lady at the welfare office informed black mothers that if they had a husband in the house who was employed, they'd lose welfare and medicaid benefits, so the response was the husband was sidelined. I know of actual cases of this, it was deliberate bureaucratic action, taken to ensure generations of "clients" - and all bureaucracies seek clients, because clients mean money, and money means power. A black culture of irresponsibility has been created, and now people - black people - are beginning to rebel against it, and grow up into actual adults, so there's that...
I lived in Over the Rhine in Cincinnati for a year back in 1991, and got to know quite a few of the residents. They had an amazing hatred for white liberals - and especially white liberal women - and they hated handouts - so one thing you learned quickly was not to give money to people "of certain hues" who begged you for money. What they wanted was a safe place to live in - and there was *no* street crime there if you were from the hood, used good manners, and acted in accordance with the rules - and street criminals who transgressed were dealt with by the Crips, not the police, thus it was safer for me to walk through that neighborhood at 2am, than to do the same past Frat Row. They also wanted good schools that would train their children to get good jobs by which they could get a living - their values in this respect weren't much different from my grandmother's - and she was born in 1892. And I could go on...
Possibly you were generalizing a bit Graham. . . On Fox, Both The Five, and Jesse Walters Prime Time Now showed that video from Cin-sity. On Jesse's show, continuous looping it while pundits talked; sickening. Anyway, just saying. I am sure MSNBC did not even mention the story.