On reparations?
How so?
I agreed to them in concept, with conditions.
It's just a matter of negotiations.
Fair enough. I only have authority to negotiate for myself. So in exchange for $1,000 I will promise not to move to whatever county you are in in New Hampshire.

Only a grand? You're letting me off cheap, especially considering I'd be happy to have you as a neighbor.![]()

This is three hours long, but worth the watch.
Mrs. AF was singing his praises in this interview, until he said, in almost the same words, the same thing I have been saying for years about "collectively" viewing people.
https://x.com/i/status/1801302722664087612
No offense, but your winter doesn't look that appealing to me.![]()
I'll listen to it sometime when I have a 3 hour drive by myself. But this begs the question. Isn't this entire thread collectively viewing people? I'm seriously stunned by the genetic trauma argument coming from you as that is the kind of argument I would be expecting from a critical race theorist. If Pat Buchannan endorsed that view that's even more shocking.
As for what really messed up black American, it's one word. Deindustrialization. You probably never watched Set If Off (4 black female lead characters, 1 lesbian), but it's an awesome movie. In this scene at 1:25 in on the clip below, Queen Latifa points to an abandoned factory and says "Before they started laying people off, they were paying people $15.00 an hour. For $15 and hour I'd be an <unintelligible> 'What I gotta do sir' MFer. They'd have to pry may hands off that damn machine." Blacks moved from the agricultural South to the inner city, mostly North, for economic opportunities. Most of those opportunities have moved overseas.
People want a better life.
Well, when we have a real winter, it's not for everybody.
His quote about "genetic fingerprints" is right in my sig line.
For good or bad, people carry their history, their shared experiences, their religion and philosophy and it reaches from generation to generation.
A strong proposition nation, of which the United States is one of the few and most successful in history, can overcome those genetic fingerprints by offering a vision that is stronger and more powerful than those fingerprints. And we did, for many years and generations. But that proposition is now shredded and dead, and the people that should have vigorously defended it, are weak, vacuous or complicit in it's destruction, many of whom I have made it very clear what interests and group they serve.
So does that end up with an observer "collectively" viewing people? Of course. The system calls me Walter White and says I am the danger. No, I am not. That is what I have been proving here.

I agree completely.
The same group I just mentioned has made it a point to utterly blow up the middle class and middle class incomes and the money supply, which $#@!s up debt, which makes it harder to access credit to start a business and this affect both black and white all the while selling an unobtainable lifestyle that can only be supported by both parents working or crime.
Young men can't take a wife and start a family on intern's or Wal Marx wages and more and more they are blocked out of college by costs or deliberate government policies that exclude them, white and black men, in favor of queeers, invaders or other weirdoes of assorted stripes. So they become shallow, depressed, bitter and hopeless. Once that happens, it's only a short stretch to killing each other in autistic, never ending, street violence in the case of black young men or killing themselves with drugs or giving up and becoming some sort of queeer in the case of young white men. (I can't tell you how many squared away, sharp dressed, young white men I have run across and thought "he should be a dad to five children" only to find out he was a fagggot).
This is why I have come full circle back to Pat Buchanan's manner of political thought, and why I have, and do, and always will support things like tariffs and trade policy and immigration policy that favors American business, manufacturing and the American people first, last and always, regardless of how much blarg, blarg, blarg, anarcho, blarg I hear.
Yes they do.
And like Malcom X and Marcus Garvey, I believe that people do better when they live with people that are roughly the same as themselves.
You wrote in another post that "integration worked".
In light of what has happened to black family and black community in the last 60 years, I'm curious how you can justify that statement.
Well I have a son who's become acclimatized to Chicago.
Okay. But I thought the point of the 3 hour Tucker interview that I haven't watched yet is that the problem with the Civil Rights Movement is that it got people thinking collectively? I'm seriously confused as to what your position is.
Did you watch the Joe Rogan interview I posted about Sparta? Just curious.
I believe people do better when they have better opportunity. That's the point of my posting the "Set It Off" clip. The problem, as you agree, is America got de-industrialized. Lack of opportunity is a thing in itself. I don't believe if Ford was building an auto plant that had 1,000 jobs in an area where there 500 blacks and 500 whites within driving distance (just making the math easier) it would somehow be "more opportunity" to build 2 plants, one white and one black. That's basically the argument that you're making. I mean, yeah there would be more opportunity from the waste of building two separate plants but you know what I mean. (I hope).
Because ^that has nothing to do with integration. You want to talk about the break up of the family? Talk about the break up of the family IN GENERAL! Much of that can be traced by to good old Ronald Reagan and no fault divorce. Add to that the rise of feminism and you have whole generations of women that either don't get married at all or leave ASAP. My dad used to be on me about "I don't know why you got divorced. I stayed with your mom 55 years." I had to gently explain to my dad that my mom thought about it multiple times but she was from a different generation of women. My maternal grandmother's first husband survived being gassed in France in WW I only to succumb to tuberculosis. Her second husband was a complete jackass and she was going to divorce him but her dad was like "I don't like him either but I just can't see a woman getting rid of her husband." She quite happy to find out he was still married to someone entitling her to an annulment.
Bottom line, you've provided zero linkage between integration and the break up of the black family, or the white family, or any other family group. You can't just say "Two things happened at the same time so they must be related." Correlation does not equal causation.
That said, check out this chart of single parent households by country.
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And note that England is 82% white yet it's right behind the U.S. on single parent households. (23% for the U.S. and 21% for the U.K.).
By contrast Brazil which is 45% multiracial (lots of integration there), 43% white, 10% African and the rest indigenous or other only has a 10% single parent household rate.
So....how do you explainthat if integration is the problem?
Not London.And note that England is 82% white
It is a problem in Italy, Germany, Spain the majority of the migrants in Italy that recently came had committed crimes and some go unreported.if integration is the problem
Not London.
It is a problem in Italy, Germany, Spain the majority of the migrants in Italy that recently came had committed crimes and some go unreported.
Are mostly just Africans and a few Arabs.
I'm talking about specifically regarding the break up of the family. You're welcome to jump into the stream of a conversation but not welcome to change the subject. Please address what's actually being discussed at the moment thank you very much....
Because ^that has nothing to do with integration. You want to talk about the break up of the family? Talk about the break up of the family IN GENERAL! Much of that can be traced by to good old Ronald Reagan and no fault divorce. Add to that the rise of feminism and you have whole generations of women that either don't get married at all or leave ASAP. ...
I agree, it's not an integration problem, but it could look like it depending upon what a person is focusing on. Forest or trees? Root causes or current problem in your face? Crime is an in your face issue, so at that level, one would focus on the criminals.
I tend to focus on bigger picture, root causes. There are many single mother, fatherless families. Some single mothers are erratic, emotional and resort to violence at every turn. Is physical violence on children acceptable? In a limited, controlled punishment way, it used to be acceptable. Teachers/nuns and rulers come to mind. But excessive violence in anger has always been child abuse, yet it is common, especially in some single mother homes. Those kids will grow up to be violent and amoral, just like they were raised. And when kids are raised in a community that has been corrupted in such a way (it takes a village), it can rub off on kids who did have decent parents.
And to step back even more, what caused this epidemic in single mother homes? The government.
From Marxists handing the victim card to women, to LBJ making government big daddy to all women and children, to no fault divorce, to a twisted court system that created incentives for divorce and robbery of men, it all added up to destroy many families. Where is the blame? Squarely with government at every turn.


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