This website will serve to educate the general public on Black people and the Stuff That Black People Don't Like. Black people have many interesting eccentricities, which include disliking a litany of everyday events, places, household objects and other aspects of their everyday life.
Black people are an interesting subject matter and this website will chronicle the many problems in life that agitate this group of people.
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AS THE BUS RATTLED toward the State Correctional Institution-Graterford, Jorge Cintron Jr. could barely contain his excitement, a nearly childlike giddiness. Though the journey had been 14 hours, most of it in shackles, he wasn’t close to tired.
To the other weary inmates in mustard-yellow “D.O.C.” jumpsuits, what loomed ahead was just another prison: same bars and barbed wire, same bland food, same thin mattresses. But Cintron was about to be with his father, his namesake — the role model he had followed into the drug world, into court on murder charges, and then into prison, their twin life sentences imposed eight years apart.
It had been 20 years since he had last seen the man everyone said he took after. “Lil Lolo,” his father’s friends from Philadelphia’s Fairhill section would call him. Now, he was about to come face to face with Jorge Cintron Sr., Lolo himself.
“I hadn’t hugged my father in so many years, or heard his voice,” Cintron Jr. said.
“It was bittersweet, because we’re both in prison and having to see each other in here.”
Since that day in 2011, Cintron Jr., 38, has lived on the same cell block as his father, who is 58. Recently, the cell next door to his dad’s became available, so he moved in. Each evening, by 9 p.m., they lock themselves into cells 86 and 87 of A Block for the night.
Their story is, in some ways, not an unusual one. All around them are inmates who come from the same neighborhoods, the same city blocks or even the same households. Father and son hail from one of the most heavily incarcerated communities in one of the most incarcerated cities in the country. And just as crime gravitates to certain neighborhoods, it also clusters in families: According to one criminologist’s analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 5 percent of families account for more than 50 percent of all arrests.
In Pennsylvania, the Department of Corrections does not keep statistics on familial relationships between inmates. Graterford’s public-information officer said she had no way of tracking it.
But Darryl Goodman, who was locked up with his own father at Graterford before dedicating his life to helping at-risk young people, has been piecing together a data set with help from inmates at the 25 prisons around the state. By his most recent reckoning, (and it’s hard to keep up, as inmates constantly are being moved) there were 243 fathers in state prisons with their sons. At Graterford alone, he counted 41 father-son pairs, including 17 sets of cellmates. He found seven families in which a father, son and grandson were all locked up together.
Cintron Jr. finds those numbers plausible: “On the block right now, there are probably three or four sets of brothers. And there are fathers and sons on my block.
Just on the block alone, there are families, cousins. There is nothing for it. It’s the cycle. It’s the generational curse.”
That crime runs in families is not news to those in corrections.
But that there are regular family reunions in the visiting rooms of state prisons reflects an incarceration rate that — despite attempts to turn the tide — remains at near historically high levels and deeply concentrated in poor communities of color.
Shot. Conan O'Brien went to Haiti recently to virtue signal against President Donald J. Trump (and his overwhelmingly white supporters) for his purported "sh-thole" comments regarding African nations. He stayed at the Wahoo Bay Beach Club, one of the "top" resorts located in the oldest black republic in the world. You can book a two week stay for about $114 dollars a night.... [Conan went looking for a 's---hole' in Haiti. He found something else, Miami Herald, 1-25-18]:
Conan O'Brien in Haiti, seeking comforts we consider normal in one of the few westernized portions of the African island... a nights stay at the Wahoo Bay Beach Club would set you back a jaw-dropping $114
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article196672139.html#storylink=cpy
And yes, there was a moment when the trip got a little tense. At Place Boyer in Petionville in the hills of Port-au-Prince, an angry crowd gathered and someone accused him of being another American journalist parachuting in to report negatively on “our country and never showing our beautiful beaches.” After reminding the crowd that he is a comedian, not a journalist, O’Brien took the comment to heart and headed north to Wahoo Bay Beach on the Côte-des-Arcadins, a picturesque area widely known as the Haitian Riviera.
Chaser.
Wahoo Bay Beach is one of the few resorts for foreigners to stay at in Haiti, offering western amenities virtually no other portion of the island can replicate. Why might this be, on an island where the black inhabitants routinely eat dirt cakes for sustenance? Because the average annual per capita income comes to roughly the cost of three nights at the Wahoo Bay Beach Club...:
For some reason, Conan O'Brien's trip to Haiti, one of those "shithole" countries President Trump reportedly lambasted, left out the dirt cakes the Africans in Haiti eat as part of their daily bread.
Economic condition:
In Haiti the average annual per capita income is about $350. About 37% of the
population live in urban areas and their income averages $409 per year. Of those living
in the rural areas, 80% live in dire poverty.
Conan O'Brien can showcase the inhabitants of the oldest black republic on earth all he wants, but staying at the nicest resort on the island is perhaps the most hilarious example of a Potemkin Village in recorded history.
The rest of the island?
Nothing more than an African population collectively creating the conditions we would describe as "shitholes" when compared to what we have created in the West. After all, aqueducts built by Romans more than 2,000 years ago still provide potable water for Europeans in the former Roman Empire.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article196672139.html#storylink=cpy
Bulletproof glass is the greatest indicator the civil rights movement ushered in a great lie, replacing common sense measures to protect both private business, those employed by the business, and products sold within the store (cough... cough... Jim Crow).
Keep this in mind as we read about perhaps the greatest reminder why businesses should have the right to discriminate and the abdication by state to protect freedom of association ultimately dooms all retail stores in America to shuttering. [Walmart 'segregated,' locked up African-American hair products, lawsuit alleges, WCPO.com, 1-27-18]:
Attorney Gloria Allred announced Friday a lawsuit against Walmart over discrimination allegations stemming from African-American hair products.
Pattern recognition is the greatest threat to the Egalitarian World Order...
The famed attorney held a news conference with Essie Grundy, who said she was discriminated against based on her race at a Perris, Calif., Walmart on Jan. 12.
Allred alleges Walmart is in violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, prohibiting businesses from discriminating against customers based on race."[She] discovered that the cream and other hair products meant for African Americans had been locked away behind glass shelves and were segregated from products for non-African Americans,' Allred said, noting that the other products were not locked away and Grundy was told she had to be escorted to the cash register to purchase the products.
Allred said Walmart was also in violation of California business practices:
Speaking on behalf of Grundy, Allred said Grundy was told by a Walmart employee said the products were locked under a "directive from corporate headquarters."
"We think that it perpetuates a racial stereotype that African American customers should be suspected of being thieves and criminals," Allred said. "Essie and her family have suffered enough."
Following Allred's reading of the lawsuit, Grundy read her own statement, saying in part:
"I was angry, sad, frustrated, and humiliated all at the same time. It was so emotional it's hard to describe. I know there is a lot of racism out there, but I have never been faced with it up close."
Walmart has noted before that the protective measures are part of a normal practice to minimize product thefts of at-risk items.
In a statement to KTLA, a Walmart spokesperson said the retailer makes product decision on a case-by-case basis:
“The decision about which items are subject to additional in-store security is made on a store-by-store basis and often at the discretion of the store manager."
Malls are closing across America.
Retail stores are shuttering from sea to shining sea, leaving once thriving strip smalls nothing more than vacant eyesores.
The demographic reality behind the collapse of malls, retail stores, and bankruptcy of retail chains is obviously correlated, though few people, if any, will publicly note this easily discernible truth. The same reason heavily black areas of America are food deserts is the exact same reason Walmart's across the USA have managers whose spreadsheets denoting frequently stolen items compel them to add an extra layer of security to black haircare products.
Without freedom of association (the ability to discriminate), retail stores across America will continue to close, with those staying open forced to put more and more of the products for sell behind locked glass.
If black hair products are locked up, while hair products for non-blacks remains freely accessible to consumers on shelves in Walmart's across America, it's clear pattern recognition has been deployed by store managers or the corporate executives when it comes to frequency of black haircare products being stolen by customers or employees (shrinkage).
In 1970, Syracuse, New York was nearly 90 percent white. Today, Syracuse is about 56 percent white. It's now a 29 percent black city and is 8.3 percent Hispanic. Why mention this? Every homicide in 2017 - all 21 of them - involved both a non-white suspect and non-white victim. [Remembering Syracuse's 21 homicide victims of 2017, Syracuse.com, 1-8-18]:
Meet the 21 people killed in Syracuse in 2017
Not one white person was the victim or suspect of a homicide in 2017 Syracuse, a 56 percent white city
A high school student. Two immigrant brothers chasing the American dream. A father whose only child was less than a year old.
Those are four of the 21 people killed in Syracuse in 2017.
Every victim killed in 2017 was a male. Five were teenagers. And so far, the Syracuse Police Department has solved 16 of the 21 homicides.
Barbara J. Smith is one of the mothers mourning the loss of her son. Her son, James Smith Jr., was shot to death in December in his childhood home.
"I don't think I'll ever have relief," she said. "It's something I'll never forget."
Here are the 21 men and boys killed in Syracuse last year.
Out of a population of just over 140,000 people, Syracuse is roughly 56 percent white. And in 2017, not one white person in this city was murdered or was the suspect in a homicide.
What does this simple case study say about violence, proclivity to lapses in impulse control, and pattern recognition help illustrate about race in America?
