(October 1, 2022 at 5:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's one of the problems, really, particularly in context of the us where both "poor" and "criminal" are functionally interchangeable with black, and treated accordingly. That certainly can't be the type of system you think should knock heads even harder...can it?
I don't think preventing incarcerated felons from voting is really that hard a knock.
As for the race problem-- and what an absolute clusterfuck it is at least in the US-- I don't know that there ever CAN be a solution, so long as poverty and drugs exist in the same space.
I saw it even worse when I worked on reservation lands in Canada. There's no saving a town when even the chief is sniffing glue to get by. Mothers, uncles, cousins, doing drugs WITH kids. That's the outer circle of the fucking Inferno. How does that cycle ever break for them?
I'm not talking about all native reservations, by the way. Some of them had oil or casinos or worked in regions with mining or forestry, and they had good schools, 2 trucks in every driveway, and so on. They had community centers where kids learned traditional languages and arts. Nice places, great cultural experience. Elk jerky rocks.
It looks like a race problem, but it really isn't-- it's a debasement problem. Debasement leads to hardcore criminality, and there's really nothing you can do about it from the outside so far as I can tell.
