Black History Month (Part 12 final): The dangerous life in today’s ghettoes
Life in the modern ghetto today is imperiled in many ways. Ramshackle housing is dangerous and occasionally deadly. Healthcare is inadequate. Drugs, gang violence and murder are part of daily life. Residents go to bed hearing gun shots. Innocent men, women and children are killed virtually every day. Police are too often seen as racist in law enforcement. Unemployment and poverty are the twin realities of life in the segregated ghettoes of America’s great cities.
The culture of impoverishment and oppression starts with a lack of education – as noted in my book “Who Put Black Americans in That PLACE? The Long Sad History of the Democratic Party’s Oppression of Black Americans … to This Day”. Inferior education removes millions of young Black men and women from advanced schooling and career-level employment. It destroys their futures – and is a loss to the nation.
The urban school systems serving Black students have the same “separate and unequal” quality that characterized the racist school districts of the old South.
“Of all the elements of institutional de facto racism, none is more damaging and immoral than the unwillingness to provide millions of young Black students with a quality education that can lead to college and career level employment.
Lack of proper education leads to unemployment and poverty, which leads to substandard housing and crime. It restricts social and economic upward mobility. It imposes the reliance on generational welfare dependence. It keeps Blacks in that PLACE.
The racism becomes obvious when you compare schools in the segregated communities to the education provided in the predominantly White schools in the same school districts. No difference in union representation. No difference in curriculum. Both schools are governed by the same school board and the same municipal administrations. And yet funding and outcomes are remarkably different.”
Funding is not the issue, as many contend.
“In 2018 in New York City, the average spending in Black schools was $28,808 per pupil and $24,173 for White pupils. In Chicago, it was $16,226 for Blacks. This did not change educational outcomes, however. Regardless of funding increases, the achievement levels in the Black segregated schools remained significantly lower than White schools in the same school system. That points directly to institutional racism as the primary reason—not money.”
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In the mid-1990s, a new term entered the lexicon to re-label the academic experience of inner-city Black students. ‘Warehousing’ basically is the act of storing student bodies in a school building in which there is poor quality education.
Without basic education, Black students are so ill-prepared for anything but unskilled labor that major corporations have had to undertake intensified remedial training just to find sufficient workers. Ronald J. Gidwitz, the former chief executive officer for the Helene Curtis cosmetics company, said that his company had to set up a high school level training program to enhance the job skills of Black public high school graduates before they could enter into his company’s work force.
In an October 8, 2014, editorial, the Los Angeles Times succinctly defined the problem: ‘Too often, students spend weeks pleading for access to classes they need to graduate or apply to college. Many are assigned to multiple periods of empty class time every day.’
According to the editorial, the situation was sufficiently serious to warrant legal action:
The American Civil Liberties Union, Public Counsel and others are suing California on behalf of students, claiming that the state must do whatever it takes to stop warehousing them in non-instructional, content-free classes. The lawsuit cited as examples seven schools in four districts, including two in Los Angeles Unified.”
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“With so many years of governance over the American ghettoes and so many examples of the ways and means to good education, it is impossible to believe that the quality of inner-city minority schools is an unanticipated outcome. Maintenance of a ghettoized dependent population is so beneficial to the political power and financial strength of the Democratic Party that it is reasonable to see poor schools as a racist scheme. Even de facto segregation is institutional in that it is the product of government policy. It is noteworthy that the difference in the quality of education and condition of the schools in cities with segregated minorities occurs even though both the White students and the Black students are part of the same school system with the same leadership and the same funding.”
While the lack of proper education is at the core of virtually all the issues of institutional racism found in our segregated Black communities, racist law enforcement has been a chronic and emotional issue – and for good reason. Take the case of Jon Burge.
“Jon Burge was a Chicago police commander, a position that can only be attained in Chicago with the approval of the city hall. He became the face of police torture when his excesses caught the attention of investigative reporters, reform-minded law students and honest lawyers.
Burge would torture those in custody and promote torture techniques among lower ranking officers. Between 1971 and 1992, more than 100 detainees— mostly Black—were confirmed to have been tortured with electrical devices, burned against hot radiators, or beaten with night sticks and other weapons according to reports uncovered by investigative journalist John Conroy.
Prisoners were subjected to hours of harassment, threats, and other forms of intimidation. Police torture and brutality was widely known, not only in the minority community but among the general public and political leaders. It could not have been so violent and pervasive without the intentional inattention and acquiescence of the Democrat leaders from the ward organizations to the office of the mayor.”
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“The Democrat machine was not eager to prosecute Burge. By the time he was to be brought to justice, the local Democrat prosecutor had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on the torture charges. In 2010, he was convicted on a far less serious charge of lying about the torture that took place under his command. He was sentenced to a short term in prison and released. He continued to draw his full taxpayer-paid pension. Racist police enforcement did not end with the removal and conviction of Captain Burge.”
Using torture and violence to attain convictions has been one of the mainstays of police racism. Under pain, intimidation and duress, those arrested would confess to almost anything, even murder.
“Though false confessions by Blacks have been an issue in most cities, Chicago, with more than an eighty-year history of Democratic Party dominance, receives the dubious honor of having the most cases. In 2012, CBS News show 60 minutes ran a segment on Chicago, highlighting the cases of two groups of Black teenagers who were intimidated into giving false confessions to murder charges. The title of the show declared Chicago as the False Confession Capital of America. In the report, Peter Neufeld of the Innocence Project said ‘Quite simply, what Cooperstown is to baseball, Chicago is to false confessions. It is the Hall of Fame.’
The problem is not unique to Chicago. At that time, the Innocence Project had exonerated more than three hundred men wrongfully convicted across the country by using DNA testing. Mostly Black men sent to prison from Democrat-controlled cities and counties.”
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Police torturing goes beyond an occasional “bad apple”. It has become part of the institution in major cities with large populations of segregated Blacks. The Homan Square police facility is just one example.
“The Homan neighborhood tells the story of Chicago’s institutional racism from two very important vantage points. The first shows how institutional racism is carried out. It is not theoretical or a one-off anecdotal story. It also shows how such activities had the tacit support by the greater community, including the business leadership.
Homan was one of those all-Black sections of Chicago commonly referred to as “a bad neighborhood”—meaning crime ridden and unsafe. It was also the national headquarters of Sears, Roebuck & Co.”.
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“Because Sears headquarters was essentially a gated community. The overwhelmingly White Sears employees rarely left the security of the compound to visit local restaurants, fill a prescription, or drop off cleaning. It was an economic island of White wealth surrounded by a Black commercial desert.
In Mayor Daley’s Chicago, there were no inquiries into Sears’ hiring practices. There was no outcry from local civil rights leaders, such as Jesse Jackson, or from the Black politicians representing the citizens of the impoverished and segregated community. Even though Sears was an enormous economic engine for Chicago, there was virtually no economic benefit to the neighborhood surrounding the headquarters other than modest financial support for the local YMCA.
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“In 2015, Homan Square would become connected with the continuing institutional racism of the Chicago machine. Within the Homan Square development was established a large police detention and interrogation facility. Various reports later alleged that the Homan Square police facility operated like a CIA Black site, where prisoners were secretly held, questioned, and even tortured. It did not remain secret, however.
The headline in an August 5, 2015, article by Spencer Ackerman and Zach Safford in the Guardian read ‘Chicago police detained thousands of Black Americans at interrogation facility.’ Ackerman and Safford claimed that ‘At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal.’
In a later article, the Guardian reported that the real number was more than seven thousand people were detained from August of 2004 to June of 2015, with only sixty-eight being allowed access to attorneys. There was no public notice of their whereabouts as required by law. More than 86 percent of those taken to Homan Square interrogation facility were Black. Most of the remainder were Hispanics.
The article gave examples of how individuals were ‘abducted by masked officers, shackled, and held on false charges without access to food, water or attorneys based on an authority referred to only as ‘covert operations.’ Media reports and a subsequent lawsuit by the Guardian have delineated a horrific array of illegal ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques, including beatings and sleep deprivation.
Of the more than seven thousand ‘arrests’ uncovered by Ackerman and Safford, two-thirds occurred during the mayoralty of Rahm Emanuel, previously President Obama’s chief of staff and political confidant. Despite a long list of specific examples of violations of law and constitutional rights, Emanuel insisted that his police department was ‘following the rules.’ While more than 54 percent of arrests by Chicago police occur within 2.5 miles of Homan Square, the facility is more than a neighborhood police station. Arrestees from all over the city were transported to Homan Square for interrogation.”
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“According to defense attorney David Gaeger, whose client was held there on a marijuana charge:
Operating a massive, red-brick warehouse between two of the most crime-filled areas in the city of Chicago, equipped with floodlights, cameras, razor-wire—this near-paramilitary wing of the government that we’ve created, I would say that people who live close to it know what purpose it serves the most. The demographics that surround it speak for themselves.
Gaeger added:
Try finding a phone number for Homan to see if anyone’s there. You can’t, ever. If you’re laboring under the assumption that your client’s at Homan, there really isn’t much you can do as a lawyer. You’re shut out. It’s guarded like a military installation. . .. It’s a scary place. There’s nothing about it that resembles a police station. It comes from a Bond Movie or something”
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“This kind of conduct would have been expected from Democrat terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan or the all-White Democrat justice system in such places as Mississippi in the days of Jim Crow justice. These cases, however, were in the twenty-first century in a city in which the Democratic Party had controlled police, prosecutors and the courts (for generations).”
Such police horror stories have been exposed in city after city. Police brutality has been one of the most significant reasons for violent uprisings. It is well established that the greatest oppression of Blacks occurs in America’s major segregated cities in which millions are trapped by both subtle and obvious policies of institutional racism. It is equally true that the Democratic Party has maintained control of these cities – and the policies – for generations.
And … thus we conclude this 12-part history of institutional racism in America. It is only a peek. One could write volumes on the subject – of which I provided at least one.
So, there ‘tis.
EDITORS NOTE: Larry’s 477-page book is a compelling well documented indictment of the Democratic Party’s racism from the 1930s to today – including the political machines that have ruled over America’s major segregated cities for generations. It is available on Amazon in paperback ($24.99) and eBook ($6.99).
If they really believe that black lives matters they would quit doing stupid shit
You gotta love the telling of history as a story that’s from a novel point of view and genre. The names should have been change to protect the innocents
Opinions on historical events have a place on a library’s catalog but not in the same section with true historical works written by actual historians.
The difference between opinion commentary and books filled with proven historical facts is the inclusion of a complete bibliography index. Numbered references to sources other than the author’s statements of authority.
History is written by the winning side, sometimes re-written by the losing side if they survive. The book is history from the perspective of a “losing” side that needs to be told.
You seem to have some reverence for “true historical works” written by “actual historians.” Some estimate that up to 20% of history from “actual historians” is error or misinformation. In this case, you may find that the “actual historians” that have written about the Democrat party will have missed or misinformed about this line of history, with, of course, the appropriate sources and references cited (e.g. biased and lazy newspapers, quotes from Democrat officials covering their own asses, and racist history works from “actual historians” from the distant past).
In this case, for this particular line of history, you have an author who has personally observed the last 60 years of this history from a perspective absolutely unique in the field. You might want to pay attention.
AC… Did you find any untruth in the book. There is virtually no “opinion” in the entire 477 pages… just lots of FACTS. The book is filled with the quotes, writings of hundreds of named sources — and with verifiable facts. It is obvious you have not read the book, and are just up to your usual old man biased ranting.
Larry tells old stories but seems mute over recent events in our support of Ukraine, treatment of minorities, especially having Blacks being left out of the Trump administration which is not unforeseen by historians,
Currently, Scott Turner, a black, gets HUD: the traditional token job, but a stretch for Black gains in Trump’s government. Surprised he didn’t get welfare…. LBJ selected the first black for this job way back when. Ron Reagan had a one-black cabinet too. This is Trump’s only black in his cabinet, sounds tokenish to me…
The Hearst Television Data Team analyzed a snapshot of the first 100 people Trump announced positions for on this Truth Social account. Obviously, Trump’s penchant to lie, combined with announcements of things that will never happen, or just lies about what is happening will change this, but it’s what HE posted. White people were overrepresented among Trump’s first 100 administration names. While only about 60% of the United States is white, they make up 87% of Trump’s first picks. His admin is white, old, and male. Women who are over 50% of our population, are 15% of Trump’s administration population. I guess one could say Trump favors old white penis over vagina. At an average age of 55, they are young, according to Trump’s age. Weird but true, he has 4 LGBTQ+ers which is close to the US demographic. And 12 TV stars which is again, weird. Perhaps that’s where the gender benders are. And the biggest one: there are six Mikes. That’s 6% Mikes in a 1% Mike America. Trump says he can never have enough mikes around. Or cameras. Or old white men with penis.
If there is no racism in the Republican party, how does Horist explain this? Same meritocracy that prevents blacks from moving out of the racist cities and into a new red horizon of equality and justice for all?
So I guess the question for the new old white male Trump administration is: can they get it up?
This is the best article of the series for one reason only: FINAL.
The author is an old, out-of-date conservative crusader pitched the same religion as he did decades ago. Some salient quotes on the facts of the story:
“In 2018 in New York City……”
“In the mid-1990s,”
“In an October 8, 2014, editorial….”
“Burge would torture those in custody and promote torture techniques among lower ranking officers. Between 1971 and 1992”
“In 2010,”
In 2012, CBS News show 60 minutes”
“In 2015, Homan Square…”
“The headline in an August 5, 2015, article by Spencer Ackerman and Zach Safford in the Guardian….”
“the Guardian reported that the real number was more than seven thousand people were detained from August of 2004 to June of 2015”
Old and in the waaaaay, hair has turned to grey, they won’t care bout you when you are old and in the way. “Today’s ghettos’ supported by facts no newer than a decade to decades ago……
“EDITORS NOTE: Larry’s 477-page book is a compelling well documented indictment of the Democratic Party’s racism from the 1930s to today – including the political machines that have ruled over America’s major segregated cities for generations. “
COMMENTATORS NOTE: Nice history with no currency. Yes, Democrats are racist from 1930 to today. So are Republicans. The 1930 racist democrats have basically morphed into the Republican party due to the southern strategy which major Republicans confirm. Republicans today boast support by literally every white supremacist organization in America spurred on by the Felon King who stated: there are good people on both sides.” That’s the history the author helped make, but he and the King are not transparent about today. Right now. They were yelling the n-word when they stormed the Capitol, Republicans all. The Felon King ended their legally obtained punishment with the award of pardons for that. There is very little difference in law in red and blue areas, including the cities. The author pushes a myth of difference to spur division and create the hate he has nurtured all these decades. IMO.
He is out of time, not timeless, and certainly not current.
Frank Danger …Getting back to my desk and I see that you are still long on insults, sarcasm and bs… and short of intelligent discourse. LOL
You say I am a creature of the past because of the older references. It is a HISTORY book, you moron.
Glad you are back and hopefully getting better, you seem up to your normal speed when you said: “I see that you are still long on insults, sarcasm and bs… and short of intelligent discourse…..You say I am a creature of the past because of the older references. It is a HISTORY book, you moron.” Totally adequate response sans evidence and facts and just a touch of name calling.
My “insults/sarcasm” include: “The author is an old, out-of-date conservative crusader pitching the same religion as he did decades ago.” Not sure the bs, he’s in his 80’s, he’s told us of his life-long career as a conservative crusader, he certainly has been singing the same tune for decades. His data for this story ranged from 1971 to 2018, no more current than six years ago. If you average this fact database, it averages close to two decades ago.
The patient is correct to state that it’s a history book and history is in the past which would make sense if trying to make sense of the past.
But it’s weird that I guess he missed his opening: “Life in the modern ghetto today is imperiled in many ways” meaning his conclusion of the present is made from facts decades if not centuries old. He never makes the connection from two decades ago to the current situation.
BUSTED
“Nice history with no currency. Yes, Democrats are racist from 1930 to today. So are Republicans. The 1930 racist democrats have basically morphed into the Republican party due to the southern strategy which major Republicans confirm. Republicans today boast support by literally every white supremacist organization in America spurred on by the Felon King who stated: there are good people on both sides.” That’s the history the author helped make, but he and the King are not transparent about today. Right now. They were yelling the n-word when they stormed the Capitol, Republicans all. The Felon King ended their legally obtained punishment with the award of pardons for that. There is very little difference in law in red and blue areas, including the cities. The author pushes a myth of difference to spur division and create the hate he has nurtured all these decades. IMO. He is out of time, not timeless, and certainly not current.”
He’s in recovery now, be patient, ssssssh……
There are good people on both sides. You just aren’t one of them. And according to facts check the Jan 6 patriots wasn’t shouting nigger. You’re just another race baiting asshole. So stick with playing games with your daughter and stfu
Harold, I am sorry you feel that I am not a good person. You are wrong, but entitled to your view. As to being a race baiting asshole, I am afraid again you seem to be wrong. Any idiot could google it, I did. You must be incapable of even that status:
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrtpDxtLRVk* he fucking testified to it: no perjury charges yet even.
Here’s four officers, including Dunn, talking about the racism of Republicans just like you: *https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/racism-of-capitol-rioters-takes-center-stage-in-jan-6-hearing/2746727/* I think these fellows may have testified too, not sure, can’t listen to the filth you guys spew.
As I keep telling your fine chaps, I do not have any daughters.
My name is DANGER, and I am Frank, and you are:
BUSTED
(I really wish you guys could muscle up a good argument once in awhile; this one was far too ez to shoot down. Weak tea.
You didn’t shoot anything down. And throwing out links that are fake doesn’t mean shit. You’re in a panic because the democrat party is dying on the vine. They will always be around in some form. But New Jersey will be red next election. But things are looking up A democrat congressman from Texas died. That’s a start. And your choice of a name doesn’t impress anyone. Danger?? What the hell is dangerous about you? Are you planning a mass murder? If you are please get help. We who read this site and post on it know that you’re weird. You spend your time mostly monitoring the posts and adding your bullshit.
“And throwing out links that are fake doesn’t mean shit.”
On the first link, as I said: “he fucking testified to it: no perjury charges yet even.” It’s Congressional testimony, your folks were there to claim or charge Congressional perjury, they did not. BUSTED
The second link, “Here’s four officers, including Dunn, talking about the racism of Republicans just like you……. I think these fellows may have testified too, not sure, can’t listen to the filth you guys spew.”
For you, to shoot your shit down, I listened to the second link and yes, all four officers are testifying to Congress, without claims of perjury from anyone, your side included. BUSTED again. All four of these folks are testifying in front of Congress. It’s Congressional testimony you are tossing to the curb as fake.
For extra credit on Republican racism, here’s a bunch of Republican racist symbols used on that day. Yes, it could be fake news, fake pictures, fake testimony in court, all fake and only your view is valid because you are not fake……NOT.
* https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-hill-insurrection-extremist-flags-soh/index.html*
This shit goes on and on, over 50 different news organizations have reported on it. There is no one denying it. Except you guys who apparently can’t JFGI.
NJ has gone red a number of times in our history at the governor’s level, not exactly the shock you are looking for. Remember Christie.
“But things are looking up A democrat congressman from Texas died. That’s a start.” And there we have it. We know who you are, what you are, and we reject it. Americans do not call the oppositions death, “a start.” You do. May your kindness be returned to you tenfold. Karma is as karma does.
As far as my panic over the Democrats demise, and being weird, you got that right. So what? I was that way long before magarats took the stage. Democrats are stuck in the summer of Floyd progressing to joy, joy, joy and we lost our center; the center that Joe tried to preserve. We have no leader and no one is stepping up yet. My best hope is Republican incompetence of which I say: two years. And yes, I spell my name DANGER, I deal in facts. When you get some, come at me. Until then, it’s a snore. If you think my facts are fake, prove it or STFU. I am hear to air out the issues, put up some facts, dispute some others or provide further insights. In the case of coming at me, you were easier than Harold. Why you guys can’t deal with facts is beyond me, but I guess girl’s gotta have fun and this is what you do. When you spew this bullshit, don’t you think I will look, document, and provide evidence that your statement is false. You were very easy as was the originator. Weak tea and BUSTED.
We are all Americans. We are all in this together. We can either pull together as a team to lead the world or we can pull apart to be pulled down. We can discuss, disagree, or yell at each other with fanciful names, branding, and stereotyping, your choice. I have made mine. But suggesting that a dead Democrat is a good start makes me wonder what your finish is? And talking about mass murder truly is disturbing.
Contrasting views of First amendment protections in law bring instances when Trump can trash talk Democrats but the press is sued for telling the truth that’s less than flattering about Trump.
The First Amendment is meant to guarantee a free press. Trump is not the first president who had issues with what the press published that shed a dim light on them. But, Trump is the first president who took a press organization to court for millions and won an out of court award. If he wasn’t PresodentTrump but citizen Trump, he would not have been several million dollars richer.
Trust in the Constitution and that its Amendments are not and will not be manipulated for gain has circled the drain during Trump 1.0 and now in Trump 2.0 trust in its strength holding is going down the drain. The MAGA people chant MA-GA, MA-GA and rally around Trump as the one who’ll get er done, when the first step toward Making America Great Again would be ridding America of the negative influences Trump has brought to government and politics in America.
Ridding the country of people like you would be a great start. So you should go join your comrades in cuba
Part 12, black history month
How about we look at the facts.
The “author” has yet to tell us
1. how red areas and blue areas differ in terms of law that affect direct and indirect racism.
2. why blacks just don’t up and move to blue areas where racism is not as bad as blue cities.
3. why institutional racism changes at the city’s edge.
4. any of the other questions posed like how does the author counter all the leading Republicans that say there IS a southern strategy that indeed made conservatives switch from DIxiecrat and Democrat to Republican
5. why all current white supremacists support Trump, why he pardoned them for beating cops, etc.
As to Joe……you seem jaded against historians who, by your logic, must be as accurate as the author, at minimum,. You state: “Some estimate that up to 20% of history from “actual historians” is error or misinformation.” Who IS some? How big is SOME? Cuz if “some” represents 1% of all historians, then the 20% becomes .2% of all history is error or misinformation. Pretty low given 1% seems pretty big for some. Got evidence or you just guessing?
Larry’s 60 years of partisan politics puts him in the position relating history in a partisan fashion. Like let’s get James Carvel’s version as a counterpoint, merge the two for an average history, heh, heh,
Fact is: look to the facts.