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| 2016-08-19 |
| BLUF: [Wash Times] In an appearance Monday on Fox, Sheriff Clarke, who is African-American, offered his explanation for the major cause of riots in Milwaukee and other cities: "You know what encourages this? The growth of the welfare state. These are underclass behaviors. Seventy percent of the kids born in Milwaukee are born without an engaged father in their life. So I look at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them to the side and say ’you’re not needed.’ Uncle Sam is going to be the dad, he’s going to provide for the kids, he’s going to feed the kids . Uncle Sam has been a horrible father. Uncle Sam does not love these kids. He might keep a little food in their mouths and that is about it. But we all know the importance of an intact family, what it can do to shape the behavior of kids." Sheriff Clarke called progressive policies "a total disaster," not only in Milwaukee, but in Chicago, Baltimore, New York and elsewhere. "These progressive policies have hit the black community like a nuclear blast and until we reverse this government dependency, that’s what creates all of this and it encourages it by the way, along with some questionable lifestyle choices." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 "Underclass"? Clearly the good sheriff has studied his Sowell and Dalrymple. Thomas Sowell in 2001: A recently published book titled Life at the Bottom paints a brilliantly insightful, but very painful, picture of the underclass -- its emptiness, agonies, violence and moral squalor. This book is about a British underclass neighborhood where its author, Theodore Dalrymple, works as a doctor. That may in fact make its message easier for many Americans to understand and accept. Most of the people that Dalrymple writes about are white, so it may be possible at last to take an honest look at the causes and consequences of an underclass lifestyle, without fear of being called "racist." The people who are doing the same socially destructive and self-destructive things that are being done in underclass neighborhoods in the United States cannot claim that it is because their ancestors were enslaved or because they face racial discrimination. Life At The Bottom is currently on sale in kindle form at Amazon for $3.99. Highly recommended. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-19 14:16 |
| #3 Unlikely, maybe the Clarke Administration tho. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-19 10:09 |
| #2 Like to think there is a spot in Trump's admin for this man..... |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2016-08-19 08:53 |
| #1 “If a chief visits a place and immediately after his departure rain falls, he is regarded as being beloved of the rain-gods and he must be worshipped. (“Indaba my children” – Chapter: “The religion and beliefs of the Bantu – II”, page 657) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-19 04:37 |