American breakdown front line reports from cities

[Simon of the Playa]

Black workers have lost $113 billion in potential wages over the past two decades because they couldn't get a college degree.
The housing market lost $218 billion in sales because Black applicants couldn't get home loans.
About $13 trillion in business revenue never flowed into the economy because Black entrepreneurs couldn't access bank loans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gdp-gro ... ty-report/

And, oh Wise One, how do you propose a cure for this, to restore equity within the next administration-whomever it may be?

im wise enough to know that i don’t fucking know.

perhaps bail-outs to communities of color the same way we bail-out industries?

just a thought.

[Molotov]

God (or whomever you worship) put our eyes on the front of our face for a reason. To look forward, not on the backs of our heads to look back. What is done is history. Only we can choose our future.

[lucky420]

Black workers have lost $113 billion in potential wages over the past two decades because they couldn't get a college degree.
The housing market lost $218 billion in sales because Black applicants couldn't get home loans.
About $13 trillion in business revenue never flowed into the economy because Black entrepreneurs couldn't access bank loans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gdp-gro ... ty-report/

And, oh Wise One, how do you propose a cure for this, to restore equity within the next administration-whomever it may be?

im wise enough to know that i don’t fucking know.

perhaps bail-outs to communities of color the same way we bail-out industries?

just a thought.

That is a very good thought

[Ugly Dougly]

For those of us who object to simply "giving money to black people", read this:
How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans

While the GI Bill’s language did not specifically exclude African-American veterans from its benefits, it was structured in a way that ultimately shut doors for the 1.2 million Black veterans who had bravely served their country during World War II, in segregated ranks.

[Ugly Dougly]

Then we got:
The Racist Roots Of “Urban Renewal” And How It Made Cities Less Equal

It sounded like a great idea at the time: give cities funding to clean up their impoverished areas and invest in affordable housing and urban infrastructure projects. But the federal policy of urban renewal, established by the Housing Act of 1949 that lasted through the 1950s and early 1960s, had devastating consequences–including displacing more than a million people from their homes.

[some seeing eye]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/opin ... atter.html

[Ugly Dougly]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/opin ... atter.html

Today's at home reading assignment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_ ... ted_States

This will be on the mid-term.

[some seeing eye]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/opin ... atter.html

Today's at home reading assignment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_ ... ted_States

This will be on the mid-term.

I would put violence on the right and left in the category of "helter skelter" conceived by psychotic mass murderer Charles Manson. Bannon had the same idea, "let's tear everything down, and see what emerges after."

[some seeing eye]

Vice Media goes in search of Antifa.

https://youtu.be/JuSNYVj6Ts8

[some seeing eye]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020 ... t-portland

[Canoe]

Police rescue a toddler they found wandering barefoot alone in a protest.
Well, that's what they said...

Only someone had a video.
twitter.com/TheNYSocialist/status/1321992848506576896
https://twitter.com/TheNYSocialist/stat ... 8506576896

twitter.com/AttorneyRoss/status/1321984781652008961
https://twitter.com/AttorneyRoss/status ... 1652008961

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54752188

[some seeing eye]

Portland BLM documentary
https://vimeo.com/479449558 (wecanlisten)