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Why do whites run mostly black town?


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why do presidential candidates (or rather, their campaigns) talk about the "black vote" as if all black people inherently agree on political issues?  And assuming they did, why would a candidate care so much about what 13% of the U.S. population thinks on a given issue?

 

Statistically, I would be shocked if there weren't more gay voters than black voters in America.  Why doesn't anyone pander to them?

 

**edit - these are all rhetorical questions.

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1. Might have recently moved into town.

2. Might have a felony background.

3. Might not be able to run for office.

4. Might not be literate to run for office.

5. Might not want to run for office.

6. Might still be high or drunk from last night (every night).

7. Might still be worried about those unpaid parking tickets.

8. Might be waiting for current politicians to just give up and leave.

9. Might not realize that anyone can run for office and represent their neighbors.

10. Might not want to represent their current batch of neighbors.

11. Might still be hiding from the Ex and alimony.

12. Might be moving on pretty soon anyway.

 

baggage and excuses - lots of it

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Columbus as of the 2010 Census was 61.5% white, 28% black.  At that time the mayor, police chief, 6 of 7 on the school board (and its president) and 7/7 on city council were black.

 

Columbus still has the same mayor, but now 4 of 7 on both council and the school board are black, and the police chief's a white lesbian.

 

Assuming the people in charge are good people, race <shouldn't> be an issue, though the governed may see it that way, for whatever reason.

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Reading more about Ferguson Missouri. Yes, the make up of the political factions has been slow to change. Many suburbs across America have experienced the same, but Ferguson was slow to change. Not really the major problem though.

 

The young people do not have jobs. None available.

The recession took out the good jobs and left minimum wage part time jobs and not enough to go around.

A large number of bad home loans (the ARM variety) resulted in high numbers of foreclosures in the area.

The local high schools are terrible, and have lost accreditation or close to it.

From what locals say, it's a good and decent suburb of middle class people, going through hard times.

 

So, unemployment and poor education. And the people don't like it.

And there are many more suburbs across America just like this one.

 

And a lot of the current problems are kids from St Louis coming over to create trouble.

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