http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/onondaga_legislator_mourns_los.html

DOES THIS HAPPEN A LOT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?
While waiting at an intersection, someone shoots you in the head?
While driving home, someone aims a gun at your car and you take a bullet through the
heart?

Blacks are just going to destroy their race on their own.

I could not watch this video of Derrion Albert being beaten to death. I simply cannot
fathom the anger and apathy in these young people, so little regard for human life. Last
December, one of my former students - only 15 - beat his girlfriend's 2-year-old toddler
to death with a curtain rod. This death was so shocking that even the caseworkers for
Child Protective Services needed counseling. In May of 2008, one of my own students, who
was 12, was crushed and killed by a van. The woman driving it was trying to escape being
attacked by rock throwers.
I guess some think that Chicago didn't get awarded the 2016 Olympic Games because of this
despicable crime. If that's the case, no US city would ever win the Olympic Games in the
future, because gangs of all races are a grim reality in our country. Read "The Freedom
Writer's Diary" or watch the movie, "Gran Torino."
The violence pales in comparison to Derrion's murder in this video.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/video_derrion_alber

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If not for the Gnat....;]

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/18/sensational-study-of-heredity-may-produce-new-ra
ce-of-men/

Have a nice weekend..

Vera . . .keeping everything in perspective, the basic economic model of capitalism was
drugged up, tanked up, pushed, prodded and concocted to be something other than what it
(an industry adhering to basic economic rules) was supposed to be.

No different than what is happening in CA or the Congressional representatives believing
that unsustainable deficits are just as insignificant and triffling as a nat.

Just as it is not nice to fool mother nature . . . it is inappropriate to f*%# around with
basic economics. . . because people really will pay dearly
. . . eventually.

Flint, Mi..
look up Auto World..one of their great hopes for drawing people to the city. On the grand
opening of AutoWorld, former Gov. James J. Blanchard predicted it would trigger "the
rebirth of the great city of Flint. AutoWorld was built to make the town attractive to
tourists. The theme park opened in July 1984. The $80-million theme park finally closed
its doors January 1985, later reopening for holidays and other special occasions before
finally being demolished in 1997.(Wiki)

I was in the movie 'Roger and Me'..this is the 'Honest to GOD' truth(Mott party)..have you
ever seen the movie?
Not pretty!

Flints failures began during the last Auto recession...not in the most recent years!

quick note*
I drive through town every so often to remind myself of what can happen to city that at
one time 'LONG AGO' was most prosperous in our nation.
A place where my grandparents accumulated most of their wealth.
I always drive away with a lump in my throat/tears in eyes..;[

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Money to bury Detroit's poor has dried up, forcing struggling families to abandon their
loved ones in the morgue freezer.
By Poppy Harlow, CNNMoney.com anchor

Unclaimed bodies piling up in the Detroit morgue.

Detroit: Too broke to bury their dead

DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit.

Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in
the freezing temperatures.Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the
corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer.

Cont'd
Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, said he has never seen anything like it
during his 13 years on the job. "Some people don't come forward even though they know the
people are here," said the former Detroit cop. "They don't have the money."

Lifelong Detroit residents Darrell and Cheryl Vickers understand this firsthand. On a
chilly September morning they had to visit the freezer to identify the body of Darrell's
aunt, Nancy Graham -- and say their goodbyes.

The couple, already financially strained, don't have the $695 needed to cremate her. Other
family members, mostly in Florida, don't have the means to contribute, either. In fact,
when Darrell's grandmother passed recently, his father paid for the cremation on a credit
card -- at 21% interest.

Cont'd
So the Vickers had to leave their aunt behind. Body number 67.

"It's devastating to a family not to be able to take care of their own," said Darrell.
"But there's really no way to come up with that kind of cash in today's society. There's
just no way."

The number of unclaimed corpses at the Wayne County morgue is at a record high, having
tripled since 2000. The reason for the pile-up is twofold: One, unemployment in the area
is approaching 28%, and many people, like the Vickers, can't afford last rites; two, the
county's $21,000 annual budget to bury unclaimed bodies ran out in June.

"One way we look back at a culture is how they dispose of their dead," said the county's
chief medical examiner, Carl Schmidt, who has been in his position for 15 years. "We see
people here that society was not taking care of before they died -- and society is having
difficulty taking care of them after they are dead."
The rest of the story is here: Inc. LA
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/01/news/economy/_morgue/index.htm

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Written by Kai Wright, senior editor of The Root in May of 2009

We’ve known the foreclosure crisis is hitting blacks and Latinos hardest for a while,
but the Pew Hispanic Center further substantiates the point in a report released this
week. The report summarizes a bunch of new housing data, but here’s the most important
stat: Blacks lost more homes between 2004 and 2007 than any other racial group. According
to a February Federal Reserve update, which Pew summarizes, black home ownership rates
dropped by nearly three percentage points, to 47.5 percent.

This is an important stat for a bunch of reasons.

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Cont'd
First, mortgage industry defenders have repeatedly asserted that the wave of subprime and
other exotic loans that flowed over black neighborhoods did plenty of good, too. It drove
up the black home ownership rate to an historic high of nearly 50 percent (alongside a
rapid increase in home ownership across the racial spectrum). As we now see, however, that
gain was illusory. It was based upon predatory, unsustainable loans. Worse, as I’ve
reported, the massive strip mining of equity from longtime black homeowners means many,
many families will come out of this much worse off than they started.