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  1. 2 points
    It is, actually, if you take the blinders off for a moment. What you want is to open a can of worms that is far bigger than getting a check in the mail. Who pays for it, and where do you think that money is coming from? If someone wants to write a check to assuage their “white guilt,” they can feel free to do so. I have no intention of doing so.
  2. 2 points
    Why bother wasting the money on research? As a black person do you feel you deserve the money for something that happened 150ish years ago?
  3. 2 points
    Because I don't agree with punitive actions against people who had no part in the problem.
  4. 1 point
    Umm.....it was the Councilmembers who presented the resolution making the assumption that "money will fix the problem". And $2 million is the specific amount. But they don't explain why the city should bother throwing money at a "study" since they already know the amount that they claim will fix it. That's what the article that this topic is about explicitly says.....
  5. 1 point
    I agree. And whichever candidate wins, I really don’t think it’s likely that we’ll see either administration will be rounding up dissenters. And with either outcome, I fully expect protests from the supporters of the losing candidate. And sadly, we’re likely to see more of the violent clashes from those protests like we saw on January 6th. However, what concerns me the most is that personal divisions between the “winners and losers” have been growing worse. The rhetoric of “existential danger” seems to be taken as a personal threat to an alarming number of otherwise normal/sane human beings. “I can no longer have a personal relationship with someone supports [that evil candidate], because their political choice means that they hate me and everything I care about”. I see these sentiments ‘shouted to the world’ on social media.....and witnessed it in my own extended family in 2020. My sister’s adult children “disowned” another sibling that voted for the wrong person. It took a family death for them to set that animosity aside and rebuild some civility and ‘family’ bonds. But I worry that it could resurface next month. And sadly, their story is all too common. Both traditional and social media fan the flames by amplifying the polarization-- 2016 was worse than previous elections and 2020 was worse than 2016. And it feels like 2024 will be telling 2016-2020 to “hold my beer”.
  6. 1 point
    History sucks sometimes and bad things were done to a lot of different groups of people over the centuries. Handing out cash is not going to change that. It’s really that simple.
  7. 1 point
    I think looking at comparisons between 2016 and 2020, there is an obvious difference between reactions. To the extent of my memory, one side cried in the streets, posted #NotMyPresident for ages, and just complained on CNN for years afterwards. What they didn't do was storm the Capitol. What their candidate did do was concede pretty quickly (I think it was that election night/early next morning?). The other side did storm the Capitol building, their candidate did try to alter the results of a valid election, such as calling Georgia to "find" votes, and set up schemes with fake electors. When the VP, the second in command goes against the President, that's a serious thing, and thank God Pence did exactly that, even with chants of "Hang Mike Pence" outside. Take every single thing that's come out over the last 4 years, and to me, the 14th Amendment absolutely should have been enacted, and Trump should be nowhere near the White House. Let's say Harris wins - Trump without doubt will carry on the "stolen election" garbage, his hardcore supporters will be up in arms, and what do they do (again)? On the other hand, I really don't see mass bloodshed like this guy seems to think will happen will come to fruition if Trump wins. There will totally be protests that will be blamed on Antifa or whatever, but I doubt they will be to the scale and significance January 6th was. I would certainly hope that the military isn't weaponized against Trump voters, just like how they should hope they aren't weaponized against Harris voters like myself. But when Trump is saying stuff like "I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen", I am going to take his words seriously - Vance can run cover all he wants but that is a serious concern to me. I am way past the point of just disregarding things he says because they're "jokes" or "he's just being sarcastic". I certainly hope I'm not wrong though, I'm the one here who has to live the longest through whatever follows the shitshow next week.
  8. 1 point
    I personally think Waltz had that right...When I lived in WV it also worked like that. All children had a free breakfast and a free lunch. In WV, there was even a clothing voucher for low income families. This was used to buy the back to school clothes. It would be nice if all children in NY also had a free breakfast and lunch at school...The backpack program is not run by the districts. It is funded by someone else and just distributed at the schools.
  9. 1 point
    So... my wedding gown, now 50 years and 1 day old LOL, that I made on my own ca. 1900 treadle machine, is a genuine antique! It's in the photo from our 40th anniversary as header for today's 50th Anniversary Poetic Devotions' blog. Never had it professionally cleaned, able to wear it on every 5th or 10th year anniversary, still looking like it did the day I finished making it and the veil a lifetime ago!
  10. 1 point
    I didn’t know this either.
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