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Carter wasn’t the reason for the interest rates being as they were Yogi.
Carter suffered due to the end of cheap oil which was the result of our unwavering support for Israel.
His party also hated him so from a legislative position he couldn’t get much done.
McCallum
Perfect example of how complex this issue is. It’s in no small part simultaneously a mental health issue, a training issue, a culture issue….
There isn’t much complexity to it.
1) 73% out of wedlock birth rate in black community
2) unstable social and cultural environment
3) the social dysfunction that accompanies social fracturingSet that in place in a culture where anything goes and you have a large swath of a community that is very resistant to getting itself under control.
The sexual revolution wrecked many communities. It certainly impacted the black community more than any other.
But again I could be wrong. The Mennonites of Lancaster County Pa might break loose any day now.
McCallum
Is he now disqualified, is he still a “conservative dream”?
It’s not like evicting a black sharecropper would disqualify him.
And how does nearly eliminating the guinea worm balance against that action?
Just wanted to make sure if the “all or nothing” paradigm is in play here.
Of course they might have just built a road for political reasons instead of the implied position of destroying a successful black community, like evicting the sharecroppers in the bad photo-op shanty, but as long as a greater good is found then it can be balanced out.
I’m pleased that is the ground you appear to be laying out.
McCallum
I consider it a business deal but using your level of measuring items you had better pull Carter down off that mountain.
Yes, what a mountain I’ve built for Jimmy Carter by simply stating facts about his life.
Sure but you left out some “facts”.
Is he now disqualified, is he still a “conservative dream”?
McCallum
So roads are or aren’t part of white privilege?
Can other races live off the residual of white privilege?
Does Caddy Shack ever get old?
McCallum
bill,
I never wrote what you attributed to me above.
His malaise speech was a wonderful statement against consumption for consumptions sake.
I have no idea about the tenants since Wilkie did not interview them but their removal had something to do with the condition of their home (it was a shanty) and how it would have reflected badly on Carter’s image.
McCallum
the only difference was he was running against Carter who most of us could not stand.
Which is weird, because he is a devoutly Christian, veteran, farmer, who came from very little and rose to the highest office in the land. He’s the conservative dream. I’ve always been deeply amused by the disdain for him.
Check out the Curtis Wilkie book, Dixie: a Personal Odyssey Through Events that Shaped the Modern South, where he points to Carter evicting a black sharecropper family from the property in 76.
I consider it a business deal but using your level of measuring items you had better pull Carter down off that mountain.
FYI: Wilkie is fairly liberal.
McCallum
I’m saying that your n=1 concept of the world will lead to an appearance of ignorance.
Merely pointing out that your flippant remark about highways being a symbol of white privilege might actually have merit for some people. That doesn’t mean that EVERY highway is, or EVERY highway isn’t.
Feel free to tell me which part you disagree with. Was Hayti not a successful black neighborhood? Was a freeway not built through the middle of it?
But really, I suspect it’s not the ‘freeway through a black neighborhood’ part you disagree with.
No more merit than saying modern health care, clean water, education etc are manifestations of white privilege. Sarcasm is a bit beyond you.
I’m sure the neighborhood you found on Wikipedia was successful but no more successful than the hundreds of Polish, Italian, German, etc neighborhoods that were hit by urban renewal projects, some of which involved federal housing projects in the very middle of ethnic enclaves. You might want to explore the row house Catholic of Philadelphia experience as it changed with the importing of blacks from the south in an effort to drive down manufacturing wages.
You seem to posit that the road was built because the neighborhood was successful and black. I’d simply disagree and point you, as I did earlier, to the work of Louis Wirth.
And last, why are these yo-you trying to block 277 and I-85?
To bring attention to what again?
McCallum
So, you’re saying a freeway wasn’t built through the middle of a black neighborhood?
I’m saying that your n=1 concept of the world will lead to an appearance of ignorance.
But if it must be broad strokes, I’m wondering what part of Hwy 211 in Green Swamp broke up what black neighborhood?
McCallum
Good Lord in heaven Roy Cooper is the epitome of weak spineless, sell out, limo wristed weasel in the most Terry Sanford fashion possible.
Yes that Terry Sanford who got caught driving drunk back to Raleigh from Pinehurst and the Cameron PD sat up with him all night holding his head over a toilet at the Rip Van Winkle Inn south of Sanford on US 1.
McCallum
What is fairly clear to me in the above quote is that major highways are concrete symbols of white privilege.
Funny you say that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayti,_Durham,_North_Carolina
The neighborhood continued to develop during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, through years of racial segregation imposed by white Democrats in the state legislature, following the Reconstruction era in the South. With black-owned businesses and services, library, hotel, theatre and hospital, the community became self-sufficient. It declined in the late 20th century, due to suburbanization, which drew some residents to newer housing outside the area. A 1958 urban renewal and freeway project took down houses and businesses in 200 acres of the community and split it with a freeway.
You are in way over your head laddy. If you want to talk about urban renewal as a form of social engineering the book, which I have, is The Slaughter of Cities by E Micheal Jones.
This was done largely in the northeast and Midwest to break up ethnic enclaves.
You may want to look up the name Louis Wirth, should help you get started.
McCallum
*may want to read the disclaimer on Wikipedia as well.
Scott rolled up to the bus stop with a loaded handgun and parked next to an unmarked police car and got out of the car with the gun, only to quickly return to the car and start rolling a blunt and then proceeded to smoke it and then multiple cops wearing police vests banged on the car telling Scott to put the gun down and then he gets out of the car still with the gun and slowly back creeps away all the while violating a restraining order for the wife who is yelling at him to drop the gun and telling him “don’t you do it”. It will be interesting to see if this is the actual chain of events.
I read about the 911 calls from motorists on I85 and 277 today. Glad I wasn’t faced with that decision.
What is fairly clear to me in the above quote is that major highways are concrete symbols of white privilege.
McCallum
The chef we have mixing the ingredients ain’t no Julia Child for sure.
What we have is more like the old waitress at the long defunct Sandhills Cafe in Candor NC who would regularly cuss out customers. When a customer ordered a hotdog and fries, she brought them soup she was told “I ordered a hotdog and fries”.
Her response, “eat the goddamn soup, it’s good for you”.
Decent metaphor for what State folks are told constantly.
McCallum
Good point on the out of town arrests being false.
Charlotte has more than your garden variety of stupid louting about.
McCallum
Va Tech dropped ECU like a bad habit.
Dapper Dave should be selling S series John Deere combines in Waverly, Kansas.
McCallum
The South is still the South. It stands as the last vestige of traditional western civilization in that its ties are to the faith, kin and land.
If this is the measure then there are many places in the western states that this holds true.
When I was growing up there were so many small and family farms that seems for the most part to have passed. It looks to me more and more that people are moving out of small towns to suburbs and cities. Will small towns and communities go the way of the small farm or will they serve as bed and breakfast for the commuters. Are most young people staying or leaving. Are small towns turning into retirement communities?
Agree with your point. The agrarian model is much less materialistic than the capitalist/consumerist model.
The “brain drain” has always been in play. The issue since the early 90s has been the reduction in manufacturing jobs which allowed small towns to continue and thrive. The capitalist model demands low cost, that means the hypocrisy of outsourcing of jobs to reduce wages and reduce cost, specifically to China.
The capitalist model has thrived only in that it used the low cost impact of China, while China denies the basic fundamentals which are prerequisite for the formation of the capitalist model.
McCallum
