‘The Mother of the Freedom Movement,’ Her Neighborhood Needs YOUR Help
by Bob Ewing55 years ago, Rosa Parks helped launch the modern civil rights movement.
Today, the government is bulldozing her old neighborhood. Here’s the real kicker: The homeowners are forced to pay the cost of demolition.
Nobel prize-winning libertarian economist F.A. Hayek famously wrote that “the great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.” There is no better example of this fundamental struggle than Rosa Parks, known today as The Mother of the Freedom Movement.
She refused to be treated as a second-class citizen. But her hometown of Montgomery, Ala., segregated blacks on public transits. Minorities were forced to sit in the back, forced to give up their seats to whites, and sometimes were left standing on the side of the road after paying their fare. Rosa stood up to the Big Government Bullies and said enough is enough. Her demand for equality before the law forever transformed America.
Rosa once said:
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free . . . so other people would be also free.
Indeed, she made the world a better place. So how despicable is it that today officials in her old hometown are forcing people to give up their homes? The government is tearing down houses against the property owners’ will and then sticking them with the bill.
Christina Walsh of the Institute for Justice writes at the Daily Caller:
Imagine you come home from work one day to a notice on your front door that you have 45 days to demolish your house, or the city will do it for you. Oh, and you’re paying for it.
This is happening right now in Montgomery, Ala., and here is how it works: The city decides it doesn’t like your property for one reason or another, so it declares it a “public nuisance.” It mails you a notice that you have 45 days to demolish your property, at your expense, or the city will do it for you (and, of course, bill you).
Your tab with the city will constitute a lien on your property, and if you don’t pay it within 30 days . . . the city can sell your now-vacant land to the highest bidder for cash.
The victims of such abuse are often minorities. For decades, African-Americans across the country have disproportionately had their property rights violated by government officials. In the 1950s things got so bad that “urban renewal” became known as “negro removal.”
Dr. Mindy Fullilove, a research psychiatrist and professor of clinical psychiatry, authored a study for the Institute for Justice called Eminent Domain & African Americans. In it she writes:
[B]etween 1949 and 1973 . . . 2,532 projects were carried out in 992 cities that displaced one million people, two-thirds of them African American,” making blacks “five times more likely to be displaced than they should have been given their numbers in the population. . . . Eminent domain has become what the founding fathers sought to prevent: a tool that takes from the poor and the politically weak to give to the rich and politically powerful.
According to sources on the ground in Montgomery, hundreds of homes and properties have already been destroyed in the last five years, most or all of them owned by minorities. The state recently passed solid eminent domain reform to curtail property rights abuses, so—as Walsh explains—Montgomery is using a complex end-around to sanction their demolitions.
To be clear: What is happening to Rosa Parks’ historic neighborhood is not eminent domain abuse. That’s illegal now. Today’s abuses are occurring through an altogether different law. One major difference is that with eminent domain, the property owners are compensated for their loss. With today’s demolitions, the property owners are forced to foot the bill.
Jimmy McCall, seen in the video above, was building his dream house in Montgomery. And then the government came and bulldozed it:
It was my dream house and the day they tore it down my wife cried and my little girl cried. . . . They came and they tore down the house anyway. They have no regard for the rule of law. You know, they do what they want to do.
This weekend, Montgomery activists are teaming up with the Institute for Justice in a grassroots workshop. They will discuss strategies on how to empower themselves and protect their most basic rights.
Will you join in this campaign?
Do you have any friends or family in the Montgomery area to notify about Saturday’s workshop? Do you have a blog where you can raise awareness about this outrage? Will you post something about these abuses on your facebook page? Whatever you can do, please do. Details on the event are available here.
If we are going to succeed in protecting our rights, we have to work together. And remain vigilant.
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This is what happens when "Due Process" is whatever government says it is at any given moment.
Is eminent domain not bad enough as it is without having to make it a racial issue? Can we please stop with the identity politics?
absolutely disgusting
Hi btw.. looooong time reader first time poster… love this site and all the bigs!!!!
its only because most of the time, this "eminent domain" bullcrap is used in urban areas… its not identity politics its just a fact. when these jerks claim other people's land, unfortunately its usually in an urban area
I'm not saying that the fact it is used in urban areas is identity politics. I'm saying that this article, which laments the fact that blacks are most often affected by eminent domain, is identity politics. Eminent domain is wrong. I don't care about the race of the person affected.
ok now i understand what your saying… and yes i 100% agree with you.. the identity politics is getting pathetic to the point JON STEWART said he's had enough of it from the left!! haha when Jon Stewart starts criticizing the left you know theres trouble
Howdy bakacha franky,,,,,,,
glad you finally gave up the peeping tom routine, and decided to come in and join the party.
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True. Either that or he just can't resist hitting a big, easy target.
Looks like the democrats and the civil rights people are trying to pretend that they were not the ones who got us started sown this road.
They brought the original suit and pursued it. Now they're complaining because it's taking poor homes instead of middle class homes and small businesses? These laws were just an excuse for stealing property. There is all kinds of abuse going on with this, forcing one guy in California to sell his property for half price instead of market price.
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It's just another case of government run amok. Follow the money trail or the district, voter restructuting. Where's the aclu, naacp, or splc when they are truly needed?
This is what happens when the Government is a Dictatorship! Vote Republican conservative, (no RINO's) in November!
Almost sounds like the federal government when it uses selective enforcement of law or ignores it completely. Montgomery is doing nothing more or less than our current, unesteemed administration. If they don't like it, they ignore it or use some other obscure law to achieve their means. Kinda reminds me of what BO, the coward, is doing at the useless nations to AZ.
Welcome to the big leagues.
Eminent Domain episodes like these remind me of a bit from _Watership Down_.
"Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.'"
These people are targetted because they live in low-income areas. Governments see the potential to build higher tax-generating neighborhoods there, so they move against the residents in a callous and reprehensible manner. Race has less to do with i than economic status. It just so happens that many poor folks happen to be minorities. This is why the founders believed so strongly in property rights, and why KELO was such a travesty of a SCOTUS decision.
The founding Fathers sought to prevent this. But the court said that's not what they meant. what if it is that the court is wrong? Like amny other things that the courts have ruled on in the last hundred years, they are not always right. The founding fathers were not stupid. Nor were they vauge. They were very clear in what they wanted to limit the Government to be able to do. But the courts, have turned it into what is best for political parties and ideologies instead of what the people are given as unchangable rights.
Agreed.
This is sick. I'm starting to think that the only person who should be elected to political office is one who did everything he could to avoid winning the election.
This is just truly evil and grieves me to the core.
I agree. There's no reason to pretend to be pro-African American, when you are pro-Everyone American.
No one deserves justice more than someone else because of their race or color or creed. We all deserve to be treated equally under the law.
One question I had when reading this is: Should what defines a public nuisance be made easier on African Americans, or should it be the same standard for all?
I say, we only define public nuisance very narrowly as a house which is dangerous to the lives of those around it. (Such as one filled with rodents that aren't dealt with.)
At the end of the day, African Americans don't respect Republicans or the Tea Parties unless we truly demonstrate treating everyone equally well. Different standards – that's not the right game. Higher standards of morality is the correct way.
I'll bet you find that someone who will own this area "contributed" a lot of money to someone who condemned it. Just a hunch.
Good Lord! That could be done to any of us. The city needs money so it declares your property to be blighted, bulldozes it and sells it for profit. Gotta do something to pay the pensions of those city union workers.
It ain't the party you have to follow…it's the man…and the issues….
as for eminenent domain…what is going up in the place of Miss Rosa's old home??? a HOSPITAL, HIGHWAY, LIEBERRY…or is Wal-mart buying more politicians???? if it doesn't serve the peoples needs keep your stinkin' hands off…I believe that it will be bullets instead of ballots soon…
I would like to know if these house are truly ones that people are currently living in, but are just in disrepair or are they actually abandoned houses that are being used as crack houses, etc. In Houston it takes years and a lot of effort to get the abandoned houses (which make the entire neighborhood unsafe) destroyed.
Whoa…….someone should question the Supremes about this very instance of ED. One wonders if
they saw this consequence would they not reconsider their decision.
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the writer left us in the dark…you make a good point however, gubmint has to keep their hands off!!!! EVERYTHING!!!!
I'm white, locked and loaded. When is Beat Whitey night anyways?
I'd hate to miss out on all the fun.
I feel sorry for those poor people….I don't know what I would do if I were __in their place…City, State, or Feds, it doesn't matter, they are all jerks!!!
Blacks beating whites (above).
Whites beating blacks.
Humans, allowing idiotic and unscientific racial prejudice to justify violence against each other, since well…probably the beginning of the whole species.
Which is better? If a fight is lost to the ballot the scumbags can run for office again. If they lose a fight with a bullet then…!!!
Don't feel too bad….the geniuses in New Orleans tore down the birthplace of LOUIS ARMSTRONG.
Satchmo did more for race relations in the world than Parks and King combined.
ooow!!! ooow !!I know!! I know…….the second one!! the second one!!!
wha did I win????? more bullets????? yeeeaaaaah!
Sounds like taking your property for a new mall. That was even approved by the Super Court (it is no longer Supreme in my mind!!!).
Our government needs to be taken to the wood shed for a serious butt tanning!
Where is The Reverend Sharpton, Jackson et. al. race baiters on this issue. Oh, there must not be a white person to point at??
We really need to split the country up Libs to the left and north Constitutionalist to south and east. They can have their bagels (un cut) and we can have oil, cajun food and best of all Freedom!
Yes, this last election just about convinced me that running for the office of President is actually proof that the person is unqualified.
Follow the money!
This is not an Eminent Domain case, this is just plain old-fashioned theft. Alabama reformed their Eminent Domain laws following the SCOTUS reprehensible ruling in Kelo.
This appears to be some local legal manipulation to declare "blight" over an entire neighborhood, order the owners to raze (not clean up or repair anything) their homes and other structures at their own expense. The article doesn't detail what happens to the empty lots that result, presumably the landowners will be given the vacant-land value in exchange for the homes they were forced out of.
Good point, but that seems unlikely if they are taking down entire neighborhoods with one batch of "raze this house" orders.
When the government takes everything you have, and you have nothing else to lose, THAT'S when it's going to be dangerous for politicians and government workers. Very dangerous.
None of the above. This isn't an Eminent Domain case, it's some kind of local manipulation of ordinances to declare entire neighborhoods "blighted" and order all structures destroyed within those boundaries. Some of the houses might be in need of repairs or upkeep, but others could be in showplace order.
Actually Detroit is bulldozing acres and acres of such run down and unfixable shacks. The occupants have no money to keep them up to code, and they are dangerous. So many are abandoned that gangs and drug dealers move in with prostitutes, and shoot up the neighborhoods and kill little kids. These places have no reason to be unless the owners can afford to fix them AND the neighborhoods….which become too expensive to protect with police and fire from the minority gangs that roam their streets and make life hell.
Sorry about Rosa Parks house, but if anyone cared they would be paying to fix it up and preserve the neighborhood. The city is just being reasonable, and folks will suffer. Look at whenever the govenment creates public housing projects for the same group of people…in three years they are destroyed and the same crimes are going on there too. Maybe there is a cultural and social problem with these folks that just sitting up front in the bus and going to white schools and eating at lunchcounters everywhere JUST CANNOT FIX. Abraham Lincoln felt that the freed slaves should be returned to Africa where they would be more in synch with the other blacks…not out of hatred, but in compassion. He did not think they should vote, nor intermarry either. But, life in the USA today is what happens since LBJ and the Courts just FIXED everything all hunky dorry.
How's that whole hopey-changey thing workin' out for ya'?
IMHO, it was people like MLK that used code words that really meant let's steal, kill, rape, riot and makeup BS that Americans made them slaves when in fact they should either be suing Spain or countries likes Negro, Nigers, Nigeria who were black selling blacks or pay us crackers for bringing them here else they'd be picking weeds out of their butts living in Africa
A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a "new coalition of conscience" to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
"We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux — I meant to say the Tea Party," Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. "You all forgive me, but I — you have to use them interchangeably."
Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the "Restoring Honor" rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
The same people who cut the cables on the night before the march, that we paid $66,000 for a sound system, they cut it," Fauntroy said. "Now from Fox News and elsewhere, they are seeking to turn the world back."
Fauntroy, who is credited as one of the chief organizers of the March on Washington, remembers Aug. 28, 1963, as the "most important date of the 20th century."
The "Restoring Honor" rally, organized by the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, coincides with the anniversary of the historic March on Washington and the "I Have a Dream" speech. Organizers have said the conflicting date was a coincidence and not a deliberate display of disrespect.
What you gonna do Bobby…throw rocks at their tanks? Ya'll lost the war already, you just haven't gotten your share of the big time misery yet….but wait…..Obama, Nance Pelosi, and Harry Reid are headed your way….and you are not going to get a good job or a free meal out of it either. Go take a look at the area in South Chicago that ole Barack boy did his famous Community Organizing with ACORN in ….it is still a crime ridden SLUM…but it got ole Barry to the State Legislature, then to the US Congress, and on to the White House with his wife, Marie Antonette Mickey the Gorilla and the two chubby cubs. When you vote in anger and for color of skin, you are going to get a surprise when you finally OPEN your eyes and see what Santa Brung Ya.
now if we could only get a few to return to peeping….lol
If only the government would develop ED (if you get my drift), we'd be a bit better off…lol
Young hothead blacks today forget how many young white boys and girls were on the buses, thrown in jails, hosed down with firehoses and had dogs sic'ed on them too. MLK could not have done it without the jewish college students and christians whites that JOINED in the peaceful rally that was turned into hell by the Southern Democrats…who WERE the KuKluxKlan…and now the ignorant blacks and Hispanics think that the Democrats are their FRIENDS and Comrades. Stupid is as stupid does. White people are NOT the enemy of black people. Black People and politicians are the enemy of the black citizens today.
"the only person who should be elected to political office is one who did everything he could to avoid winning the election"
So you're saying John McCain should have been elected president in '08?
GO ask Obama to solve this. This is his area of expertise..community organizing . I knew the black people were going to be thrown under the bus but they still slobber over the muslim arab because he has darker skin.
I apologize for sounding so callous and in my heart I feel sorry for these folks BUT they are the cause with their voting that this country is going to hell in a handbasket. Rev Wright, Farrahkan, Black Panthers, NAACP etc etc.
They are the problem. They don't care.
Until the good black people get a handle on what is REALLY happening in this country , nothing will change. They need to work with us for real change NOT against us because this country would not be so racially divided if it wasn't for the aforementioned trouble makers including Obama.
It's not only the good people of Montgomery they are coming for. We are next.
How's that hpoe and change working out for you?
And this is why you can not count on the Supreme Court for justice and liberty.
Even the most conservative justices have statist leanings and the liberals think the Constitution is essentially void.
It's the DemocRATs that keep giving us Collins and Snowe.
Started when Cain killed his brother Abel. It's not a racial condition, evil is a Human condition.
John RINO Mc Cain just won his Primary . I see nothing changing yet .
All the more reason to keep the revolver loaded…
What is really idiotic, is this…who will buy these empty lots in this economy?Foreign banks?Our crooked taxpayer bailed-out banks?The city officials that ordered the demolitions?
I think a lot of these people "hope they change their minds" on demolishing their homes….
This was NOT a case of Eminent Domain but a demoition of a home because it is a public nusiance (Run down etc. ). Under ED they would be compensated but this way the get NOTHING except the bill for demolition.
And to make matters worse, Obama and his minions want things to be seen as "racial", how is that for a total slap in the collective face of these minority homeowners.
That really enraged me. We don't want him. He's for Amnesty, and he's a RINO. Did he buy his way in?
Are you implying that slick politicians are making money off of crime ridden slums via community action non-profit groups and banks?That's quiet a scam!And unfortunately has been making rich crooks richer for decades…
Well ,at least we got rid of that tyrant George III !! and got thousands of mini-tyrants to take his place….
It's unmerciful what Obama is doing to Az. but that won't last long. In Nov. we will attack that situation.
Obama, Unions, Calderone, Hugo, and Soros must have meetings to keep our Border open, like a gangplank to So. and Central America, and Mexico who smuggles Terrorists in from the Middle East.
All of this, subjects U.S. to dangerous Criminals with a constant flow into America, unfettered! Plus Mexicans carry drug-resistant TB! I'll stop here. The list of why unscreened Illegals should not be allowed to traffic here is too long, and obvious to you all.
It's Illegal, and it's Anti-American by it's very nature.
And look at the 2 latest Liberal Losers Obams appointed to the Supreme Court. This Court is NOT to be relied on…
It's the plan..the racial divide plan and these minority house owners don't see the forest for the trees. It's hard to see the big picture when you are only focused on whats in front of you.
The argument has been put forth that taking these people's property is being done because the neighborhoods aren't safe. Question:
Run-down houses -> crime?
or
Crime -> run-down houses?
HAY GUYZ, I have an idear – letz kick out all the poor peoples! and take away ther land! and sell it to yuppies! that'll solve our problemzz!
So, when the government comes knocking because a prominent business man wants to use the location of your private home or business to build a hotel and convention center, you'll be OK with it because he _may_ be generating far more money for the public good than you will? That was the essence of the KELO case. They took people's property at bargain basement (below property value) rates because the proposed big pharma plant would earn more in property taxes. In the end, they took people's property and Pfizer built elsewhere leaving them high and dry with vacant lots.
Start weeding them out in Nov,& replacing them with Constitutionalists. Then slap TERM LIMITS on all of them. Require a Fed Budget be published once a year, on line, on the same date.It's easier to enforce,with Term Limits. They have to work to stay.
As far as Eminant Domain and this pathetic situation with this minority neighborhood: I think that E.D. should be rarely used, and only for Emergencies, not to line the pockets of Developers.
-As for this situation. I think the City needs to issue Checks to each homeowner for twice the value of their homes before they were stolen and demolished by a greedy Dictatorial City Govt!
It amounts to the same thing. Local pols are telling people they know better what to do with their private property than the actual owners do. And when you declare "blight" you are lowering the property values intentionally so that you don't have to pay as much. They used the "urban blight" rules to lower the KELO area property rates below actual value.
And basic ED allows government to confiscate land for the purpose of public projects, not for the purpose of transferring private holdings from one private entity to another. That's why KELO was such a travesty because the SCOTUS backed that idea calling it "public good."
Exactly. Or, maybe one of those two carpetbaggers is the new property owner/developer, buying for pennies on the dollar….
I agree with you. No matter how humble, the govt has no right to claim your Real Estate. If it's declared condemned, then give the owners notice,and a chance to correct it etc., but lawless claiming of homes is immoral, if not illegal.
Eminant Domain has also been abused in many States in recent years. In NJ there were many illegal cases. It's heartless. When we lose our sense of humanity. We ourselves are condemned.
I would like to see a motion for TERM LIMITS for Supreme Court Justices. The lifetime position is obsolete in these times. We need more flexibility there.
Absolutely. Legislation needs to be proposed for TERM LIMITS for Supreme Court Justices.
The lifetime positions do not work in these times.
It's Illegal, immoral, and that City should issue Checks to each property owner for TWICE the value of their homes!
If I were an elected official I would not stop until that were compensated. Those home owners are victims of Government trespass. It's just wrong, and they need to be paid now.
I disagree, A. Harris. The result may be similar, but eminent domain (for public use only) is allowed under the "takings" clause of the Constitution. Blight ordinances are intended to give a municipality a bit of (sometimes necessary) leverage to compel recalcitrant or negligent owners to adequately maintain their property to avoid health and safety hazards, and to not depress values of surrounding properties.
The above article is my only information on this Alabama case, but it sounds like manipulation of an ordinance so that politicians and/or their cronies could steal the property. The Kelo case, I firmly agree, was a travesty and did not meet reasonable standards for a "public use" (not quite the same thing as "public good").
Thanks Mike …… I admit I read this piece too quickly and missed that detail. I was at the
Boehner piece giving encouragement to all the folks there who were attacked by "father
moray". If he's a REAL father I would be gobsmacked. He's still at if but after several hours
of my challenging his attacks he's moderating trying to gather allies, sounding like a good
conservative NOW. Hah, I have his number…..
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Kelo was a 5 to 4 decision, with the four more conservative justices voting against it. The case had nothing to do with states' rights, but in any event states' rights do not trump individual rights. The mechanism for eminent domain limits the jurisdiction – usually a municipality – to a fair-market-value purchase of private property for public use: School, highway, civic center, public hospital, etc. — not for sale to another private party.
According to the article, the residents had 45 days from the first notice, posted on their doors, to vacate and demolish ("raze") their property, at their own expense, to avoid having the authorities raze their property, charging them the cost of demolition and/or having liens placed on the title(s) for the cost of razing it.
Oh, wow. Now, that makes my heart hurt.
Dis-repaired houses are being condemned and torn down as they should be. Every town in the country does this, but since it is happening to black folk there, it's suddenly all racist.
Poor or wealthy…black or white…condemned or new…crime-ridden or model neighborhood…. EVERY man regardless or race, religion, or creed should be allowed to keep his home. If the gov't cannot negotiate a reasonable price and forces a man out of his home, he should be given the fair market value for his land and fair market price for his home. The home amount should be determined by the median home price in that county and the market price for the land should be determined at the price the gov't sells the vacant land for to the developers….. this would end emminant domain as we know it…. and if it really is for the good of the "city" then they will be willing to compensate justly for it.
..then that said man can build his dream home with the cash secured by the rape of his property somewhere nice and quiet and hopefully a long way away from any future shopping mall plans!!!!
Excerpt from the U.S. Constitution: Fifth Amendment-
NO PERSON shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, NOR BE DEPRIVED of life, liberty, or PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW; NOR SHALL PRIVATE PROPERTY BE TAKEN FOR PUBLIC USE, WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION.
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What Montgomery is doing is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. If those homeowners lose their property rights, why should any of us think ours is safe? Property rights are one of the cornerstone principles of the founding fathers and conservatism- it should be defended everywhere at all times. If they trample on these rights what makes you think they won't trample on others? The "collective" mindset of those in the White House and the majority in Congress will make that a certainty.
Eminent domain is an overused tool of overeaching big statist government.. If we don't reverse this trend, we may find ourselves like the former Soviet Union where everything belonged to the "people" but no one owned anything. Or the people in New London, CT who look out at empty lots where their homes once stood- they were razed for nothing. http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB100014....
“Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?”- Samuel Adams 1772
Obviously, Chicago ethics and Montgomery ethics for government come out of the same book. This abuse of a nuisance law is just as abhorrent as the abuse of eminent domain. The city fathers of Montgomery should be ashamed of themselves.
I don't like identity politics either. But maybe race is mentioned here because there are people who think that defending "property rights" means defending "rich, white people" against the poor, downtrodden minorities. This story points out the fallacy of that leftist claptrap. Property rights are for everyone.
So It sounds like your saying that if we didn't let them vote, intermarry, go to white schools, eat at lunchcounter with white folks, or ride in the front of the bus that THEN everything would be just hunky dorry.
Okay, I'll just state the obvious here, since I didn't see anyone else who had.
Blacks, in overwhelming numbers, live in poverty shacks and run down housing for one reason, and one reason only. They are lazy.
Not as a race, mind you, but as a group. And I mean whites, yellows, reds, and any other persons who fit in this group, but it's mainly blacks, I hate to say. It's those who won't work, who want to live off of the government, with welfare and WIC and food stamps.
They don't take care of their property, since they have nothing invested in it, and then it gets run down much faster due to the lack of concern brought on by such attitudes. It doesn't get repaired, because the people who own it aren't making any money, since the rent is fixed. Therefore, they run down sooner and have to be razed because it's cheaper to raze them and rebuild than to repair.
But mostly, it's blacks who are affected by this because they live in these conditions more than any other race. Why, I have no idea. I used to believe they moved into neighborhoods that looked like this to save money, but I've now lived long enough to see good neighborhoods brought down simply because those who moved in stop taking care of their property. It's the attitude, not the skin color. But I don't feel sorry for these people at all. Live around them, listen to them, hear their attitudes. They hate whites, no matter how much we do for them, and they think no matter how much we do for them, we owe them more.
Enough
This is not a white/ black issue, its an issue of bad goverment , its going to get much worse as goverment grows larger.
Here's your hope and change. That's the kind of person that's in office. It's about control and nothing else.
If they want a piece of the pie; then elect someone who is decent and honest.
That's a good one.
This article just made me sick. I very nearly had to run to the bathroom because I was certain I was going to throw up. My disgust knows no bounds.
There is incredibly terrible. That's really all I can say.
you know what, thats most likely what it is
The city can not legally declare your property a public nuisance and force you tear it down without having a process for appeal, in which they would have to present their evidence that they base their ruling on. This smacks of a violation of your 5th amendment rights under the Constitution. Due process allows interaction including an appeal process and they must compensate you if they can not adequately prove that your property is a public nuisance. Find out what they use to determine the label "public nuisance" and if it is too vague then you have a case against the law being used to target people for reasons of race, economic class, or other criteria for a class action suit. A law must have a definition that has boundaries and limitations or, being too vague is undefinable and thus unenforceable in a court of law.
AMEN! only thing thats bad about that is our man Scalia wouldnt be able to stay on then
WAKE UP (Poor) BLACK AMERICA, THEY BAIT THEIR HOOKS FOR YOU (Your votes), once you are hooked, they are declared great fisherpoliticians/saviors and you are all thrown into the live wells, to await the filleting!!!!!
There is a solution – but don't get caught.
Ever wonder why our Founders considered gun ownership the second most important issue in the Bill of Rights?
Ever day I wake up wondering if this will be the day the common man raises up in revolution against the despotic forces in government.
Poor or wealthy…black or white…condemned or new…crime-ridden or model neighborhood…. EVERY man regardless or race, religion, or creed should be allowed to keep his home. If the gov't cannot negotiate a reasonable price and forces a man out of his home, he should be given the fair market value for his land and fair market price for his home. Reiki
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