You too can live in Baltimore, for $850,000

[sonickteam]

whats wrong with giving opportunity to the poor destitude people of your community?
 
    and those rowhome/projects hold a lot less people too.  no one really lived in those projects anymore!!  not like the ones on the west side of town....scary business!!!!!

[Lively One]

whats wrong with giving opportunity to the poor destitude people of your community?
 

What's wrong with giving opportunity to drug dealers, sex offenders, violent criminals, thieves, and people that overpopulate the community by having unprotected sex and receive welfare checks one after the other?   I dunno, you tell me?  I'm not saying that all people that live in these projects are that way, but statistics prove that many are.  There are plenty of hard-working blue-collar Americans that work to subsidize themselves instead of depending on tax money.  Also, a good education and determination and hard work pretty much guarantees you at least a semi-decent job--one that will pay your rent. If you don't believe me about the violent criminals, just go to the topic on the board that deals with "any perverts in your community?"  Click on the link and then put in the zip code 21202--these are just sex offenders--can you imagine how many are other violent criminals?
 
 
 

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[sonickteam]

Originally posted by Lively One:
  What's wrong with giving opportunity to drug dealers, sex offenders, violent criminals, thieves, and people that overpopulate the community by having unprotected sex and receive welfare checks one after the other?   I dunno, you tell me?  

i believe nothing is wrong with it.  You can't kill these people or bus them to some other town!  they are in your city and giving them NO money and even worse living conditions certainly isnt going to make them any less violent.
 
   we put nice rowhome projects by all the fancy houses and spread out the poverty in the city and perhaps these people will take a lesson from thier neigbors and at LEAST stop living like a filthy idiot.  Or, perhaps they will just find somewhere else to go and those rowhome projects can be sold to some folks who want to keep thier city at least looking good.....

[HoyaSaxa03]

ugh, what's with all the knee-jerk racism on here lately?

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  ugh, what's with all the knee-jerk racism on here lately?

whos talking racism?

[ggw]

I don't see a single reference to race on this thread.
 
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  ugh, what's with all the knee-jerk racism on here lately?

[HoyaSaxa03]

I'd put $100 on the fact that the person who made this statement was white, and seeing as he/she is referring to baltimore, is speaking mainly about black people
 
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 What's wrong with giving opportunity to drug dealers, sex offenders, violent criminals, thieves, and people that overpopulate the community by having unprotected sex and receive welfare checks one after the other? I dunno, you tell me? I'm not saying that all people that live in these projects are that way, but statistics prove that many are. There are plenty of hard-working blue-collar Americans that work to subsidize themselves instead of depending on tax money. Also, a good education and determination and hard work pretty much guarantees you at least a semi-decent job--one that will pay your rent.

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  I'd put $100 on the fact that the person who made this statement was white, and seeing as he/she is referring to baltimore, is speaking mainly about black people
 

well, i dont see many white people in the projects.  and i would imagine it would be tougher for a white family to attain public housing than a minority family. but i could be totally wrong.  either way, as far as I'm concerned poor scummy trashy people are all equal, regardless of race....but making new pretty looking projects sure raises the property value around it!

[ggw]

Or perhaps the person reading that statement and arriving at that interpretation holds some pre-conceived racial stereotypes?
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  I'd put $100 on the fact that the person who made this statement was white, and seeing as he/she is referring to baltimore, is speaking mainly about black people
 

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Or perhaps the person reading that statement and arriving at that interpretation holds some pre-conceived racial stereotypes?
 
   

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  I'd put $100 on the fact that the person who made this statement was white, and seeing as he/she is referring to baltimore, is speaking mainly about black people
 

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way way way too easy there, ggw.
 
 you and i both know that these:
 
 "There are plenty of hard-working blue-collar Americans that work to subsidize themselves instead of depending on tax money."
 
 are just code words by thinly veiled racists disgusted by affirmative action ...
 
 of course there are just as many white people, especially in the rural south, mooching off of welfare and the government ... but i'd put money on the fact that this person, like walkonby, wasn't talking about white folks.

[sonickteam]

Hoya, shut up.
 
 code words?  hahaha.

[ggw]

So, by that logic, anybody that criticizes welfare is a racist?
 
 And how does this relate to affirmative action?
 
 

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
 you and i both know that these:
 
 "There are plenty of hard-working blue-collar Americans that work to subsidize themselves instead of depending on tax money."
 
 are just code words by thinly veiled racists disgusted by affirmative action ...
 

[sonickteam]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  So, by that logic, anybody that criticizes welfare is a racist?
 
 And how does this relate to affirmative action?
 

i think you learn about that in Georgetown. there, if you dont route for the basketball team, you are a racist...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by white man from town:
  i think you learn about that in Georgetown. there, if you dont route for the basketball team, you are a racist...

we also learn spelling.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  So, by that logic, anybody that criticizes welfare is a racist?
 
 And how does this relate to affirmative action?
 
   

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
 you and i both know that these:
 
 "There are plenty of hard-working blue-collar Americans that work to subsidize themselves instead of depending on tax money."
 
 are just code words by thinly veiled racists disgusted by affirmative action ...
 

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arrrgh .... of course not ggw, but people who criticize welfare generally fall into two camps: 1) those who approach the issue calmly from a policy angle, and 2) uneducated, thinly-veiled racists
 
 the anonymity afforded by the internet seems to breed tons of people from the latter camp, and i surmised (fairly or not) that by the rhetoric spewed by the poster, that he/she was as well.