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I didn't say that.
To be specific, I think some of you have been brainwashed into viewing things a certain way.

Your words were:

"I fear if the racial aspect was removed, some of you would care more"

you are saying we dont care as much cause hes black which is calling us racists 

if you didnt mean that then say so

What keeps them poor and in segregated neighborhoods are the 60 years of failed programs set in place by city leaders.

you stole my thunder 847 I got to get faster at posting

I understand that they are not equal, but the sheer number of killings in Chicago alone should bring outrage.

It doesn't, and that's disturbing.

Nothing will change until the root causes of the problems are addressed. Detroit is more violent than Chicago on a per capita basis. Chicago is just a much larger city with a much larger population and more violent crime total. Per capita, Detroit is much worse however. Both cities and many in the rust belt have suffered from an economic collapse in these poverty stricken neighborhoods that is tied to well-paying manufacturing jobs evaporating from these communities.

Chicago has more gang members than any city in America with 70,000+, according to the FBI. And most of the gun violence is tied to the drug-trade turf war these gangs have going on amongst eachother.

Nothing will change until something is done to address the poverty in these neighborhoods and the piss poor educational system in these neighborhoods, and until the endless, wasteful, harmful "war on drugs" is ended. The schools in most of these poor inner-cities are a joke.

Jesse Jackson or Big Al can't do anything to change this. At all. Change has to come from the top levels of federal and state gov't, and from US multi-nationals actually giving a damn about employing people in these communities.

Profit-takers are out in force today, cashing in on big games from hard-hit industries.

market down almost 400 pts

Holy crap. That's borderline terrorism. 

That dude's still alive? What rock did he climb out from under to get attention?

That dude's still alive? What rock did he climb out from under to get attention?

Roseanne?