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The effect of the historical practice is still massive today for a number of reasons. And property taxes in Chicago are still highly regressive, with people on the South and West sides paying taxes way over assessed compared to homeowners on the Northside and corporations. Btw, property taxes are collected by Cook County, not the city of Chicago. https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-tax-divide-investigation-20180425-storygallery.html

1. Federally insured home loans. My grandparents on both sides were able to buy houses in the 1960's with low interest, federally subsidized mortgages in "good" neighborhoods. They bought those houses for around $15,000, and passed them down to us when the combined value was about $500,000. Black people were not afforded access to low interest, federally subsidized mortgages from the 1940's through the 1990's, and those who could get mortgages paid much higher interest rates and were redlined into only certain neighborhoods . The total wealth from the equity of those homes that white working and middle class families were able to pass on amounts to billions of dollars. This white privilege is one of several reasons there is an enormous wealth gap. 2. Property Taxes For black homeowners, on average they pay far higher property taxes in cities than white homeowners in white neighborhoods. Still exists in most big cities today. So not only are black people more likely to get stuck with higher interest rates than white people of the same income, but will pay a higher property tax than their white counterparts. The "rational" reason city and county politicians throughout the country decided to over tax black people and under tax white people was this idea, black people can't flee the city, and they want to keep white people from fleeing the city... I'll just leave these two.

That's the nature of political discourse in our country, look for any way someone might be wrong and ignore all the ways they may be right.

The Nazi's are the good guys in this conspiracy theory. Must be true.

Growing up in WNY, I've had this conversation hundreds of times. This is such a Buffalonian conversation. It's also such a white conversation. Have any of you guys ever asked any of your black friends this question?

Do you any of the knee jerkers on here even care to know anything about the actual song itself? Even care for a single moment that it's a deeply Christian song that ties faith in God to love of country and forgiveness for the plight of slavery? That it is actually a song of healing and unity?

That's not really an implication. It's pretty much historically accurate. Black people didn't have rights as citizens when the national anthem was written, and there's an unsung verse that threatens black people with death who fought for their freedom against slavery. Black people had 0 input into what the national anthem should be, and it was only enacted as the national anthem by executive order of a KKK admiring democratic president. Playing the song in question, which is deeply spiritual and far more Christian than Francis Scott Keys tune is no different than singing God Bless America before a game... The third verse is very poignant: God of our weary yearsGod of our silent tearsThou who has brought us thus far on the wayThou who has by Thy mightLed us into the lightKeep us forever in the path, we prayLest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met TheeLest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget TheeShadowed beneath Thy handMay we forever standTrue to our GodTrue to our native land

You mean the Star Spangled Banner?

Clinton's toast, just like Prince Andrew. Now let's talk about Maxwell recruiting underage girls out of Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

There's nearly 10 million people who live in the Chicagoland area. If it were a state, it would rank #11 by population, just behind Michigan and in front of New Jeresey. Chicagoland has the population of 10 Erie Counties. Each of those shootings is a tragedy, but the idea that gang shootings in Chicago proves whatever narrative BS you think it does is asinine.

I think there's a two pronged approach to address the issue of police brutality and accountability, one on the federal level and one on the local level. Both Republicans and Democrats are working on their own version of bills to address the issues at the federal level. In this election year it will be a miracle if anything happens, but the fact that both parties are working on it says something. On the local level, if there are localities with black communities that want to reprioritize funding into the community, create new training requirements and create processes of accountability, then that's all right with me. Total abolishment of the police in the name of a police free society is a pipe dream. Disbanding a specific police force because of their history of corruption and reconstituting a new police department may be the only some communities rebuild trust between the community and the police. And without being held accountable to anyone else's desires or wishes, it's my hope that as the dust settles from this unrest, police in communities effected by a long history of violence find a way to rebuild trust and work for the communities they protect and serve.

It was one of those situations where the trailer was way better and funnier than the first episode. It felt forced, a great concept that didn't take the time to be the best version of itself before it went to production. It has 40% on Rotten Tomatoes right now. I gave up after the first episode, but maybe I'll give it another go. The theory is that Greg Daniels work is character driven so his series start out slow and get stronger. Well, I also think the tone and comedy of ineptitude running through it works better with mundane settings like Dunder Miflin and the Park Dept... I imagine your project had a very different tone, somewhere between the Right Stuff and Star Trek?

Space Force is pretty disappointing.

I thought he got his ribs cracked in that Jets game?

On a personal note, I believe in absolute truth too. I do not happen to believe that absolute truth resides within the ephemeral world, within the world of change and appearance. And that is the world, the relative world of change, that gives birth to language. All language changes and evolves. Absolute truth by definition is unchangeable. So we negotiate the meaning of words because all words are inventions of the human mind.

When you deemphasize black and white, you can begin to see there are shades of grey. And yet many proponents of disbanding want to then reconstituted police departments under community policing standards.

As someone who appreciates word origins, in a cursory review, the first known usage of the word "defund" appears to have occurred in 1948. Like all words, someone made it up by using it. Why are you so admit that partial defunding is not a real concept?

"to withdraw funding"... does not necessarily mean "to withdraw ALL funding." To use in a sentence-- Los Angeles is defunding the LAPD in the amount of $150 million dollars.

The head of the Minneapolis city council said their plan is the disband the current department and to reconstitute a new department organized around better principles. Other cities want to reduce funding from the police department and shift that money to community supports. The concept of police abolishment is like a utopia, they both go hand in hand and are not possible and won't happen.

This article explains. Reading between the lines, disbanding the police department breaks the back of the unions that stand in the way of reform and accountability. Camden disbanded their department and reconstructed a new one. Minneapolis city council is planning on disbanding the current police force and following a similar path as Camden: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/

The police in Minneapolis isn't going to be disbanded. A 15% shift in funding will seem slightly more palatable to the police department in light of the vote to disband.

Thanks for the detailed reply. I searched for raw video of the Hawthorne PD bodycam but couldn't find it posted publicly. The first time I watched this video, I did not see a gun. Looking again with your input, I'm not convinced either way. One of the reasons why bodycam policy was enacted was to provide transparency in the course of police work. It's troubling that the shooting officer's PD requests all bodycams turned off prior to the search of the suspect, who is on the ground and deceased. It would provide clarity on the situation if the search of Mr. Ross happens on camera. I'm wondering if there is a longer version available that shows the pockets being searched, or was the last bodycam turned off prior to that search? On the one hand, if the video does exist, and it shows a gun being pulled from the pocket, the people who produced the video should be held accountable and should be sued for defamation. On the other, if all cams go dark prior to the search of his pockets, it appears like both police departments are providing cover for the shooting officer in the event that no gun is found on Mr. Ross. Why request to turn off all cams prior to the search?

Exactly. The cowboys sneak was epic, and the way he got face masked and then launched for the 1st down against one of Belichick's best defenses was pretty spectacular.

I mean, he had two of the greatest qb sneaks of all time last season.

I revised. The argument is that there are systemic problems, not a few bad apples.