Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations

Frankfooter

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What do you suggest they do with the money?
Who am I to tell them what to do with the money they fundraise?
I am sure there are lots of options, community support, providing legal aid to those racially targeted by police, awareness campaigns, education....

BLM raised serious questions and is in the process of raising awareness and trying to change the situation for the better.
I don't see what your problem with this is.
 

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Who am I to tell them what to do with the money they fundraise?
I am sure there are lots of options, community support, providing legal aid to those racially targeted by police, awareness campaigns, education....

BLM raised serious questions and is in the process of raising awareness and trying to change the situation for the better.
I don't see what your problem with this is.
In other words you are out of ideas how to fix the system. lol
Im just wondering what they are going to do with 100 million that hasn't been tried before.
 

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How about money for schools, tutors and job training that could be accessed by anyone in yhe community? Make it about low income not race.
I agree with some of this. I don't think basketball courts will help - such solutions will fail. Not only do kids grow tired of play and the courts become areas for gangs, but the focus is on games, sport, and other easy "fun" activities rather than the activities that are needed for success in a competitive world.

Tutors, job training, financial counseling, and head hunters. Train the kids and head hunt on behalf of those who are trained successfully so they get a job right away to start earning money. Provide guidance on how to save/invest and/or start a business so that the money they do earn isn't squandered. This builds work ethic, pride, self-reliance, and self sustainability.

These are the things that traditional parents offer their children, but that these kids lack. They often don't have a father guiding them, encouraging them, instructing them about money and hard work. They don't have a father coming home from work and teaching the a trade or skill. Providing these things to kids who don't have it at home is a solution with substance and will pay real dividends in the future.
 

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In other words you are out of ideas how to fix the system. lol
Im just wondering what they are going to do with 100 million that hasn't been tried before.
100 million in the states is good for lobbying and awareness campaigns.
The systematic changes needed, like fixing the divide between rich and poor, would take billions and billions.
Look to European countries with more equitable distribution of income and the costs to change the US, for instance.
 

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I agree with some of this. I don't think basketball courts will help - such solutions will fail. Not only do kids grow tired of play and the courts become areas for gangs, but the focus is on games, sport, and other easy "fun" activities rather than the activities that are needed for success in a competitive world.

Tutors, job training, financial counseling, and head hunters. Train the kids and head hunt on behalf of those who are trained successfully so they get a job right away to start earning money. Provide guidance on how to save/invest and/or start a business so that the money they do earn isn't squandered. This builds work ethic, pride, self-reliance, and self sustainability.

These are the things that traditional parents offer their children, but that these kids lack. They often don't have a father guiding them, encouraging them, instructing them about money and hard work. They don't have a father coming home from work and teaching the a trade or skill. Providing these things to kids who don't have it at home is a solution with substance and will pay real dividends in the future.
But none of the above will happen. Liberals will indeed stress the importance of basketball courts and other wasteful recreations because they would rather have a permanent underclass ready to vote for them, than to actually help raise those people out of poverty and social assistance.

It's the same reasoning behind why the Democrats get the minority vote in the US.
 

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Look to European countries with more equitable distribution of income and the costs to change the US, for instance.
Europe -- land of mass shootings, riots, bombings, train attacks, suicide attacks, truck attacks, mass rapes, etc.

No, I would rather not look to Europe.
 

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100 million in the states is good for lobbying and awareness campaigns.
The systematic changes needed, like fixing the divide between rich and poor, would take billions and billions.
Look to European countries with more equitable distribution of income and the costs to change the US, for instance.
If Europe is such a paradise go live there. You actions belie your true feelings. You know the Europe is a hellhole compared to the US.
 

Frankfooter

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Europe -- land of mass shootings, riots, bombings, train attacks, suicide attacks, truck attacks, mass rapes, etc.

No, I would rather not look to Europe.
I expect Europe trounces the US in most stats, life expectancy, wealth distribution, health care, crime/murder rate, trust in governments....
But we were just discussing the BLM movement in the US and comparing how there is less systematic racism then the US at present along with less divide between rich and poor.

Even mass shootings, your first claim, are probably way higher in the US then in Europe.
 

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To be honest, I wish I had dual citizenship
Heh, I have it. EU passports are some of the most sought after documents in the world.
I could literally live in Toronto one day, and then get a job bartending in Ibiza the next day.

Unless the EU dissolves, having it is a piece of magic
 

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To be honest, I wish I had dual citizenship.
As a Canadian you only really need a degree and some relevant work experience to move to the US and work under NAFTA. Though, your boy Trump has promised to rip up NAFTA, which would potentially end that freedom of movement between Canada and the US.
 
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