More ex-felons in Alabama registering to vote after disenfranchisement reform
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Everything I said is meant to reduce seduction into gangs or give alternative paths to success.
The seduction works because it seems like it's easy to get rich.
and capitalism has the same seduction factor lol
How?
You're saying people succumb to "gang influence" because the media makes it look easy to get rich.
by that metric, capitalism falls into the same fault
the media makes it look easy to get rich
I didn't say the media. What the fuck are you on about?
State prisons dont have an incentive to make money.
Social services should not be carried out by private industry. They just shouldn't.
What is glorifying their lifestyle if not the media?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/us-to-phase-out-use-of-private-prisons-for-federal-inmates.html?module=inline
In 2016 the US Justice Department found that private prisons "compare poorly" to government prisons, as they are less safe, less secure, and provide less inmate services which increases the chance of recidivism. The Justice Department decided to phase out their use by the federal government until Jeff Sessions rescinded that order because "fuck Obama".
It's glorified by the drug lords. The youth look up to those guys. They have the best cars, are always in company of beautiful women and don't take shit from no one.
And how do they spread that message?
Media?
Just by being themselves. When you live in a gang controlled area, everyone knows who's the chief.
sorry ragekipz but not everyone lives in a gangster movie like you do apparantly.
I'm just gonna dredge an old one up from the bottom of the ocean
I'm definitely not a fan of how angry I used to be, but the underlying point is still solid
Except, yeah, sometimes they do? Sometimes people are making them resort to crime?
Like holy fuck this is just straight up willful ignorance right here. What, you think the black community of Chicago wants to have one of the highest murder rates in the country? Do you think the black community in LA is choosing to have such a high incidence of gang activity because that's something they want?
Do you also think poor people are just lazy? And could stop being poor if they would just get up off their lazy asses and get a job?
This is just the dumbest goddamn thing I've read all week. It's basically a tacit admission that you know exactly jackshit about the United States, the history of crime within, and the reasons that crime happens. Hell, it doesn't even seem like you want to know
Do you even know why communities like these tend to be referred to as disadvantaged communities?
It is because that is literally what they are. For one reason or another, communities with high incidence of crime are at an economic disadvantage. There's no jobs. There's no money. And there's no support from the government that's supposed to be making sure these things don't happen. Usually the best thing these communities can hope for is yet another revolutionary TOUGH ON CRIME initiative from their friendly neighborhood Republicans
How much of a choice do you really think it is if you grow up surrounded by violence? If you grow up in a community where gang affiliation is just the norm? In a community with shit schools, and only a handful of shitty jobs if you're lucky? In a community where the government doesn't care, where law enforcement doesn't care? In a community that doesn't have any of the safety nets you're so accustomed to having?
They're called disadvantaged because they lack the advantages people like you have had. You're so quick to deride these people for turning to a life of crime but it doesn't even seem to occur to you that some people might not have the same broad scope of opportunity you've had
That's just fucking ignorant and ungrateful
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If you wanna make it a race thing, sure. They're called the Republican party and their insistence on carrying the torch for Nixon's war on drugs is one of the biggest contributing factors to black communities having such high rates of poverty and crime
The war on drugs was started with the goal of destabilizing and demonizing those communities Nixon saw as enemies, and wouldn't you know it, black people were more likely to vote for the Democratic party. This surely didn't help Nixon's bigoted view towards the black community
After the massive 'drug' crackdown in the late sixties, he got his destabilization. These communities were shattered for decades to come and we're feeling the aftermath even today, especially after it was exacerbated by Reagan's fuckwitted supply side economics decimating the job market and tanking the economy multiple times
There aren't a whole lot of opportunities to get out of the poverty cycle, especially for young black men. I've had guys straight up ask me to go pick up applications for them or ask to speak to a manager over the phone because they can't find a place that isn't 'out of applications' or a manager that isn't 'on vacation' when it's them who asks.
And if you've been arrested for anything ever, you might as well throw your application in the garbage and save yourself some time and effort. Assuming you're living with family so you dont have to pay rent and someone in your family can afford to feed you... You have to at least have that in order to survive while attempting to get a job and even then, like I said, it's a crapshoot and is going to take ages.If you manage to land a job it's probably at mcdonalds or something... Imagine having no possessions, maybe a cheap phone and some clothes, no money, no internet, and you have to find a job in this environment. Oooorrrr your cousin can front you an ounce and you can go work for him for a bit until you're involved in that lifestyle enough to start supporting yourself. Suddenly you see the possibility of driving a car in your future... Having a place to stay, food in the fridge, maybe even a girlfriend now that you aren't basically a homed homeless person... I'm not justifying it or anything, but come on. If there's no work for people they're not going to just starve, they'll find work and they typically aren't going to pick a job that involves risking your life or prison unless they've tried the easy stuff first. Trust me, gang life isn't easy... There's A LOT of guns in America so you could die for basically anything in that lifestyle, but if you've tried everything else and that option is on the table, well...
i mean he lives in brazil
might as well be a gangster movie
People who don't support this don't support democracy
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