keepthefaith

I wonder if they've published the aspects of blackness?

I've held an opinion for many years that jail sentences should be shorter in general, particularly for first time offenders of non-violent crimes. However, incarceration should be in 2 phases. Phase 1, very harsh punishment. Very few privileges, physically demanding, it should really suck. Phase 2, rehabilitation. Training, significant education, even job placement upon release as much as possible. Set expectations for re-entry into society. I've employed a few ex-cons over the years. One was lucky enough to get a job in the prison distribution center for much of his time. He learned a lot there. The others could never say that jail was anything more than confinement with a few comforts.

New name for Redskins team should be easy. Washington Incompetents. Speaks for the team, community and government all at once.

Dogma.

She's nice.

Well, at several districts in our area this past school year when they went to online classes, about 30% of the students according to my teacher friends actually were logged into lessons and/or completed their work. The schools went to a no fail and in some cases no grades at all policy. Now maybe with more preparation it will get a lot better this fall.

If we knew the total number of "cases" we could then calculate a death rate. We don't because we have only tested a fraction of the population and didn't test a lot of people early on who had symptoms. We know the death rate of people under 70 who are reasonably healthy is nil.

A little racial harmony for y'all on a Sunday night. Start at 4:30 or 5:30 if you're impatient. Get some headphones, crank it up. Good stuff and the lovely ladies are spectacular. Tons of talent on the stage. Crank it up!

The real denominator is a much larger number.

I believe he is afraid. I'll believe he's afraid of the unfair "analysis" and unfair criticism that the media and his political opposition will push very hard. If I were him given how irresponsible, biased and dishonest the reporting will be, I'd not publish them either. The media and his opposition have earned the middle finger on this one.

Despicable.

The best preventative care is people becoming educated on healthy lifestyles and people actually making an effort to live healthier lifestyles. Most docs don't prevent ***** beyond 5 minutes of advice on a yearly visit and/or throwing some pills at people and sending them on their way.

About the only thing missing from policies today are happy endings which one could argue should already be covered under mental health. We're probably paying for therapy dogs already.

Somebody in Washington or a group of somebody's are going to have to be the adults in the room before too long. The political divide in America is much about money with the left wanting gargantuan additional government benefits in the name of "fairness". There simply aren't enough tax dollars even at unreasonable tax rates to fund into perpetuity SS, Medicare, Medicaid, free college, free health care for all and whatever else I'm missing that the left wants. I don't think the majority of Americans anytime soon will be willing to hand over their health insurance premiums to the government in exchange for medicare for all. The rate of debt accumulation is substantially faster than GDP growth and this is without these newly wanted benefits. Only 1% interest rates are temporarily easing this pain. At some point rates rise and even worse potentially is a souring of demand for U.S. treasuries for any number of reasons economic or geopolitical. Trump and Pelosi are playing like it's monopoly money at atrocious levels on the heels of Obama who did same. Trump in this regard is the worst ever He loves his GDP number and seems to care about little else. Will he make debt reduction a part of his 2020 platform? Seems doubtful. Frankly the fiscal planning and management at the federal level is embarrassing. This government never right sizes and it's hardly a left vs right problem. Both parties take turns sucking at this. While academics and pundits talk about ratios and percentages, none of that will matter when the raw numbers inflict pain. Here's a link with a bunch of info and these numbers don't include pandemic stimuli and the ensuing revenue loss due to the interruption of the economy. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56073

Agree. I've posted comments on schools before. Know teachers that live in the affluent burbs and teach in Chicago or other very poor districts. The contrast in how our suburban schools are run and those in the city is stark. City and poor districts have policies of no homework or limited homework because the school leadership feels that their kids have other priorities at home or don't live in homework conducive environments. That's directly from a school superintendent. Also discipline is almost non-existent and behavior in these schools reflects that. The kids get away with just about anything short of murder. Mouth off to teachers in class on a regular basis and say some really awful stuff, abuse other students physically and emotionally, drugs in the schools and on school grounds. When you're a 7th grader and a student of color and the teacher is white and you call the teacher a racist (as I'm told happens frequently and year after year) I'm sorry but that is a learned behavior at that age. That is probably learned at home. The schools let it all go. Rarely a call home to parents, little or no detention, slap on the wrist at most. Also, they have no fail policies. They'll test kids multiple times, allow what little homework is assigned to be ignored and the policy is not to give failing grades. They move them along to the next grade each year and each year the learning deficits for many students gets larger and larger. Parents don't show up to student/teacher conferences on a regular basis. Essentially doing well in school is not prioritized in the home or at school. That''s very very different than in my community. This to me is where the great economic divide in this country starts and it's not unique to black and brown children. White kids who grow up in similar or same environments have the same academic and expectation deficits. Parenting IMO is the greatest difference between what people call good schools and not so good schools. Good or bad, it starts at home.

I'd pull you over for that or enroll you in the A.D.L. (Anti-destination league).

Yes, I'm aware that Chicago taxes are managed by Cook County which extends outside of the city, but rest assured it's run very integrally to the City. We don't know if taxes are highly regressive from the article. It provides very few data points. Also this excerpt is probably a big part of the explanation. "Regressivity is an inherent problem in mass-appraisal models because they rely on averages. The models take certain characteristics of homes that sold and figure out average values for each one — the price per bathroom, per square foot and so on. Those values are then used to estimate market prices for everyone. But there’s a lot of information the models don’t capture, such as remodeling, and that can affect the market value. So, one house with two bedrooms and two baths might sell for $300,000 and another with the same characteristics might go for $100,000. The mass appraisal models would average the two, and the resulting value of $200,000 would be too low for one house and too high for the other. The housing market crash exacerbated the regressivity problem because the models rely on the previous five years of sales. Sales prior to the crash had been included in the models, driving up the assessor’s estimates for many properties, especially in poorer areas where values had collapsed." Additionally there are a lot of rental properties in the lower value neighborhoods where investors buy homes based on a rental stream, a different metric than the average Joe buying a home and that may contribute to some of the lower priced home being over assessed due to neighborhood averages. Looks like some correction has happened. https://www.loopnorth.com/news/tax0315.htm

I'll take a look at that.

There are probable cause laws and have been for years. If this is still an issue people can take it up in court. I find it hard to believe this is a widespread problem in 2020. True story.... A guy who worked with me (black) called me one day and said he needed 3 days off. He went to court for a long overdue matter that he ignored and the court sentenced him to 3 days in jail. He went on to say he was pulled over because he was black in a certain town that is mostly white. When I asked him to elaborate he said the cop came to his window and pulled him over because he ran the license plate and an outstanding warrant came up. I said sorry but it sounds to me like he had a good reason to pull you over. He then said he was sure the cop only ran his plate because he was black. I explained to him that police cars have devices that scan plates. He said he still thinks it was because he was black. The problem is his attitude, not the cops in this instance.

#1. That may be historically correct but that is no longer a practice, right so it's a non-issue. It's self correcting now? The CRA put into place in the late '70's requires banks to lend throughout their communities and in lower income neighborhoods (not by race but income based). https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/cra_about.htm #2. Can't speak for all cities but believe it or not the city of Chicago has lower property tax rates than most of the surrounding burbs. Also Rahm Emmanuel when Mayor in 2015 approved a city property tax increase but no increase for homes valued under $250K. https://news.wttw.com/2015/09/22/emanuels-budget-includes-property-tax-hike-ride-sharing-fees

Tell you what, if you want to hold every 70+ year old white politician to the standard of did they ever once say/do anything negative that could have been racially influenced based on July 2020 standards you're gonna find that nearly all in both parties should have their pictures and records erased from history forever. We really need to get back to the Fed government solving it's fiscal, foreign policy/military, health insurance/health care (including covid-19 for the short term) and illegal immigration issues. I'll add corruption. The rest is just noise.

How do we have a serious conversation without a point or two to start? Give us your top 3 white privileges and we can start there unless you're merely looking for this type of conversation.

I wouldn't call him a bum or a dime a dozen RB. He had some injury issues earlier in his career. He has elite speed, one of the fastest backs in the league. Rare speed. He's not a great between the tackles guy. SF more than other teams figured out how to utilize his strengths (speed in space) and he stayed healthy in 2019. He's getting paid almost $3 mil a year which might not be what he thinks he's worth after 2019, but he probably didn't have a lot of suitors when he signed with SF. With 2 years left he'll have a stronger case if he has another good year and SF wants to extend him.

No it is not obvious. I'm genuinely interested in someone, anyone giving me examples of white privilege.

Please define or give examples of white privilege.