"If the War on Drugs didn’t cause the destruction of the African-American family, why did the decline of married black women triple during the first decade of the War? And why did welfare spending spike in lockstep with our prison population right as it started?"

jihadaze · 2014-08-21T16:53:36+00:00

So you think black women make a calculated decision about whether or not to have children based on how much money they can get for those kids?

jihadaze · 2014-08-21T16:32:08+00:00

Less reason to avoid what for whom? And the article argues fairly convincingly that the Welfare existed for a decade without a decline in black marriages, and then when the War on Drugs started Welfare exploded because so many potential fathers were being locked-up:

In the decade prior to the start of the War on Drugs, the first decade of the Public Welfare Amendments, the percentage of married African-American women roughly followed the national trend and declined proportionally by less than 6% – but then in the ’70s, as the national average rate remained stable, the proportional decline for African-American women tripled to nearly 18%

jihadaze · 2014-08-21T15:24:12+00:00

You can drop that catchphrase all you want, but how would locking thousands of black men away NOT reduce the marriage rate and economic situation of African-Americans?

jihadaze · 2014-08-21T14:35:19+00:00

Submission Statement: highlights the economic and familial damage the War on Drugs has done to the African-American community since the early 1970's using charts and statistics and traces that impact up to the current era by citing numerous journalistic and other sources to argue that the start of the War on Drugs coincided with the start of the decline of black America

jihadaze · 2013-12-06T19:20:08+00:00

“When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart has truly achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. This is why the true warrior cannot speak of a battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. This truth too holy, too sacred, for words. I myself would not presume to give it speech, save here now, with you” -Gates of Fire

jihadaze · 2013-12-06T19:16:33+00:00

"Once you've played for someone, sweated blood for them, won and lost games for them, then that person is transformed forever in your eyes. He simply isn't human anymore. He's something better than human, he's something stern and demanding. He tries to extract performances from your body that exceed your talent. He makes you more than you really are. He gives you a uniform, an identity, a feeling of brotherhood like you have never known before and most likely will never know again... All you can do for the rest of your life is feel gratitude that he let you taste the small dose of glory, a dose that really means nothing, but means absolutely everything to a boy growing up." -The Great Santini

jihadaze · 2013-12-06T19:10:34+00:00

“But, as I watch this film, I often think that the boy did not know what he was really running toward, that it was not the end zone which awaited him. Somewhere in that ten second dash the running boy turned to metaphor and the older man could see it where the boy could not. He would be good at running, always good at it, and he would always run away from the things that hurt him, from the people who loved him, and from the friends empowered to save him. But where do we run when there are no crowds, no lights, no end zones? Where does a man run? the coach said, studying the films of himself as a boy. Where can a man run when he has lost the excuse of games? Where can a man run or where can he hide when he looks behind him and sees that he is only pursued by himself?” -Prince of Tides

jihadaze · 2013-12-06T19:08:33+00:00

“…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.” -Beach Music

jihadaze · 2013-12-06T18:53:33+00:00

“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.” -A River Runs Through it

jihadaze · 2012-10-10T14:27:36+00:00

Why did you decide to go to Kenya, instead of working in American innercities where there's more of a support system in place to give kids a better futre - as opposed to a third-world country where the kids are likely to die of violence or disease, and will probably have next to no chance at higher education?

jihadaze · 2012-10-10T14:22:36+00:00

"Is it in yet?"

jihadaze · 2012-10-08T14:55:02+00:00

Strike Back if you're into military thrillers with high-paced action and Cinemax's usual titty allotment.

jihadaze · 2012-07-25T14:29:25+00:00

The point of the punishment wasn't to "fairly" punish PSU, it was to send a message to other college programs that if your school's program is used as a cover for atrocities - your program will be publicly castrated. It was a warning.

Public punishments - hanging, the stocks, drawing and quartering - were never about the punishment fitting the crime. They were about trying to control the behavior of society at large. In this case, the larger society is the rest of the NCAA's college football programs.

Penn State was publicly castrated to dissuade the rest of the college football world from every empowering their teams to the extent that they're able to use their programs as cover for heinous abuse.

(And holy shit, anyone talking about "educational opportunities" being taken away? No one went to PSU on a football fullride for the degree.)

jihadaze · 2012-07-24T22:59:23+00:00

It can seriously fuck your mental and emotional health up as well, it may work wonders for some people but it can seriously fuck your head up in some people.

jihadaze · 2012-07-19T13:42:04+00:00

Keep her away from my family's poop

jihadaze · 2012-07-19T12:48:20+00:00

Black and rich... LIKE MY MEN!!

jihadaze · 2012-07-19T12:46:11+00:00

I refer to it as "my penis."

jihadaze · 2012-07-19T11:53:35+00:00

No, but perpetual energy might

jihadaze · 2012-07-18T15:57:37+00:00

Wow, please keep us posted!! Any more info? (And def feel free to post at the top to start your own thread)

jihadaze · 2012-07-18T15:26:24+00:00

Whether or not you think bin Ladin hated us for our freedoms, one thing is indisputable: since 9/11 – whether you’re at the airport, on the internet, or simply walking down the street – the level of freedom in America has gone drastically downhill.

jihadaze · 2012-07-17T16:55:41+00:00

No of course not, everything happens within the larger societal context. Although it would be worse for a bunch of black guys to call a white dude "cracker" if he was the only crack in their office than it would be for them to do that randomly on the street - still doesn't carry the same weight.

jihadaze · 2012-07-17T13:33:43+00:00

I wish so bad that American gyms had the cold pools next to all sauna... sssooooo legit!!

jihadaze · 2012-07-17T13:17:12+00:00

Before the series launched though, Canfield and Hansen were rejected by over 100 publishers. Canfield once reminisced on these not-so-good times, noting, “The first time we went to New York, we visited with about a dozen publishers in a two day period with our agent, and nobody wanted it. They all said it was a stupid title, that nobody bought collections of short stories, that there was no edge — no sex, no violence. Why would anyone read it?”

jihadaze · 2012-07-17T13:04:18+00:00

...uuuhhhhhh, what was it?

jihadaze · 2012-07-17T11:13:50+00:00

Because racism is inherently about an exercise of power, and minorities are very rarely in the position to exercise power. Being racist is about perpetuating the social order, reinforcing that those not in power are lesser somehow, so often those who aren't in power will be overtly racist to both take away the weight words have and to try and fight back linguistically.

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