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Driving Through Detroit's Worst Hood - Any Leftists Want To Defend This Sad Truth?

*sigh* who said anything about conspiracy theories and such? But for sure, socializing is less disturbing to outsiders if done indoors.
This reminds me a little of that book "On the Run". The author (a white woman) become "embedded" into an inner city Baltimore neighborhood. She spends most of her time with bangers she gives fake names like "Chuck" and "Mike" who hang out on the street all the time when not in jail. But she also spend some time with another group of young black people a few blocks away, who went to work, played video games, hung around indoors and avoided trouble with the law.


Or maybe they should all pile their belongings into the van and go camping down by the river or out in the woods where, guess what? People play music and laugh and talk and dance and make noise that bothers their neighbors who are other campers or wildlife.
Obviously nobody should play music so loud it bothers neighbors. But you can get more leeway out in the country than in a densely populated neighborhood. Just like you can be louder if you live in a detached house vs. apartment. And where do you get the idea that only white people make riverbank outings or go camping?

Of course if those activities are carried out by white folks, then they are good. Put a brown skinned person behind any activity and it is bad, bad, bad, bad.
WRONG!

And dangerous! How dare those people not be working 20 hrs/day!
You think most of the people on that video work even 20 h/week? At least in "legal jobs" as Goffman calls them.

The fact that you cannot conceive of the people in the videos having jobs says a lot more about you than it does about those people or society.

Enjoy your basement, Derec. It's obviously making you very happy.
 
There is no context. You don't even know whether this is 2 am or 9pm.
I took the 3am form the link Trausti posted.

Not exactly surprising that you would say that, but more telling about you than anyone else.
You see everything through the lens of race, so you obviously yet mistakenly think I was referring to race. No, I was referring to behavior. Big difference. I am sure they have black neighbors (those who actually spend their money on books and not aftermarket car speakers) who are pissed off at this behavior too.

The post you replied to doesn't even mention race. This is all on you.
 
You think most of the people on that video work even 20 h/week? At least in "legal jobs" as Goffman calls them.
Wow.

What's "wow" about it? People who hang on the streets all the time usually have no real jobs. Regardless of race.
We don't know if the people in the video hang out on streets all the time. The assumptions imbedded in your responses and the bigoted OP are truly revealing.
 
"From Detroit to Atlanta, Newark to Cambridge, conditions in American ghettos were largely the same, even when the neighborhoods that housed them differed. But ghettos didn’t just happen by accident. They were, primarily in cities of the Northeast and Midwest, formed during the first half of the 20th century. That formation came as a direct result of specifically racist government policies, economic and labor factors that drastically disadvantaged black workers, and actual racial violence that made it impossible for blacks to live in other neighborhoods. These factors created many conditions for the urban uprisings of the sixties. Putting it simply, the American ghetto exists almost entirely a result of intentional state action and extra-legal white supremacist violence".

The federal government created inner-city ghettos with racist housing regulations
https://timeline.com/redlining-federal-housing-racist-14d7f48267e8


"Now your northern n*****'s a negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the n***** free

Yes he's free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage
On the South Side of Chicago
And the West Side
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage
In East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Roxbury in Boston
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around
Keepin' the n*****s down"


'Rednecks' (Randy Newman)



Anything and everything I've ever read in my whole life suggests that the above is pretty much true, even if possibly not quite as much as implied in that article or that song. If that's the case, then it forms a significant part of the backdrop to the sort of things seen in the OP video.

Does that excuse the behaviour (which I would consider anti-social in many respects)? No, not in my opinion, but it does help to partly explain it, and any discussion of 'ghetto culture' in the USA would be significantly incomplete if it left it out, imo.
 
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What's "wow" about it? People who hang on the streets all the time usually have no real jobs. Regardless of race.
We don't know if the people in the video hang out on streets all the time. The assumptions imbedded in your responses and the bigoted OP are truly revealing.

But didn't you hear? He's not talking about race at all! I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the person who made the video just happened to film in black neighborhoods! Referring to them as "the hood" or "the ghetto" was just an unfortunately misunderstood term of endearment! It has nothing to do with race!

I'm sure that he's also got a series of videos documenting night life in poor white communities in Appalachia or some other rural areas! I just can't seem to find them on his You Tube channel. Maybe he's got another channel for that?

Anyway, I think it's very important to remember that Derec never posts anything negative about any race. He certainly doesn't highlight black criminals in his posts, or black women who wrongly accuse men of rape, or how white women are only attracted to dark-skinned "bad boys" like basketball players and rappers.

Nope. Derec is - judging by his posts - an egalitarian! He's certainly not attempting to imply here that black people are lazy.

And nobody has ever used Detroit or any other inner city area as code for talking about black people. No, this is purely a policy discussion about Democratic city leaders.
 
But didn't you hear? He's not talking about race at all! I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the person who made the video just happened to film in black neighborhoods! Referring to them as "the hood" or "the ghetto" was just an unfortunately misunderstood term of endearment! It has nothing to do with race!

I'm sure that he's also got a series of videos documenting night life in poor white communities in Appalachia or some other rural areas! I just can't seem to find them on his You Tube channel. Maybe he's got another channel for that?
Indeed. If you go to Appalachia you will find dysfunction there too. Except it is politically correct to talk about that but politically incorrect to talk about dysfunction in the inner cities, except of course to blame whitey, like ruby sparks' source is doing.

Anyway, I think it's very important to remember that Derec never posts anything negative about any race.
Unironically, yes.

He certainly doesn't highlight black criminals in his posts, or black women who wrongly accuse men of rape,
I talk plenty about white women who wrongly accuse men of rape. Including in cases where the victims are black men.

or how white women are only attracted to dark-skinned "bad boys" like basketball players and rappers.
Citation please.

And nobody has ever used Detroit or any other inner city area as code for talking about black people. No, this is purely a policy discussion about Democratic city leaders.
Wasn't it you who said that what we see in that video is a "typical night" in certain neighborhoods in Detroit?
 
Indeed. If you go to Appalachia you will find dysfunction there too. Except it is politically correct to talk about that ...

You show us, Derec. You go there and talk about that. Just make sure your health insurance is paid up!
 
Next thing you'll tell me is that Skid Row in Los Angeles is just a big nice wholesome party that's been going on for decades. You realize on Skid Row Democrats hand out free needles to drug users so they can keep using, right? This is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life.

Then when white people move into these areas and make them better through gentrification and crime goes away, the blacks say it's not fair. Don't you think it's stupid how people thinking cleaning up crime and making an area better is a bad thing?

The standard Christian obsession with thinking inch-high roadblocks work.

The choice is clean needles vs dirty needles, not clean needles vs not injecting.

If you want to keep old needles off the street you use a needle exchange, although I would permit a slight surplus (say, turn in 10, you can get 11.) That way they have value and won't simply be discarded.
 
Indeed. If you go to Appalachia you will find dysfunction there too. Except it is politically correct to talk about that but politically incorrect to talk about dysfunction in the inner cities, except of course to blame whitey, like ruby sparks' source is doing.
When dysfunction in the inner city is discussed, the inhabitants of the inner city and Democrats are always blamed . However when dysfunction in Appalachia is discussed (which is almost never), the inhabitants are not blamed nor is any political party. Perhaps even you can spot the difference here.
 
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