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A racist is a racist is a racist
>In some surveys, a majority of blacks agreed that racial profiling was not a bad thing as long as those profiled were Arabs or Asians, and not blacks.
Well,...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:07pm PST
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New geo-spatial research methods are improving our understanding of how local environments shape the level of alcohol-related problems experienced by communitie...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:10pm PST
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"Well, there's part of the problem there, isn't it. A bigger part is that certain white radicals, in an ill thought out attempt to appear not to be racists...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:15pm PST
Whoever you are, you've got a lot to learn
> You can't be anti-racist and racist at the same time. Pick a side.
One: picking a side in the middle of a divide and conquer strategy = fanning the flames...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:20pm PST
Correlation is not causation.
Studies show that a high number of guys buried at Boot Hill died with their boots on. This does not mean that they died from putting on boots. Neither does the ...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:29pm PST
"The enemy"
You've made the point about people breaking up shops in the name of religion is against where you're coming from. I think everybody gets that people who are on ...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:40pm PST
ja wohl
Yes, topic is exhausted. Neither sf.indymedia nor this site has done any actual original reporting on the issue, even including sticking up photos without text...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 5:17pm PST
No one here has stated...
...how it's the proliferation of small liquor stores that CAUSE violernce in the areas. Is it true that in black and poor areas that violence subsides if liquor...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 9:53am PST
lots of people....
many people assume all 'minorities'' are the same.african types of all hues are the most considered ''different'' in this current world. I grew up in the ''eeni...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 1:09pm PST
Hip-Hop Predicted Liquor Store Trashings Long Ago
Hip hop musicians have long addressed -- and frequently profited from -- liquor sales in impoverished black neighborhoods. PNS contributor Adisa Banjoko is a lecturer and author of the upcoming book "Lyrical Swords Vol. 2: Westside Rebellion." For more information visit http://www.lyricalswords.com....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:51am PST
The spatial dynamics of violence and alcohol outlets.
Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, California 94704, USA. rlipton@prev.org
OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether the association between violence and pop...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:07pm PST
Research links density of alcohol outlets to local levels of harm
Linda Hill
New geo-spatial research methods are improving our understanding of how local environments shape the level of alcohol-related problems experienced...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:09pm PST
Blah, blah, blah
The issue here is not alcohol or where its sold. The issue is the use of force to cram religious practices down the throats of the unwilling. What these wannabe...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:34pm PST
Listening
I think what many of us are trying to say (and proving, by the way) is that this is a larger issue than just what happened with the store. Most of the people in...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:43pm PST
Liquor store
No one is forcing you to buy or drink liquor. The liquor stores are there because there is a demand for them in the 'hood. If no one bought liquor, the store ...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 1:33pm PST
not so simple. it's bigger than market forces
"The liquor stores are there because there is a demand for them"
the liquor stores are there because there is nothing else. there is certainly str...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 1:47pm PST
"need"
that's a separate issue, and not germane to the issue at hand. The lack of, oh say, organic vegetable buyers coops, or even of Safeways, is not caused by presen...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 5:24pm PST
yep
"West Oakland doesn't "need" any liquor stores. Need is not the deciding factor. Want is the deciding factor. Obviously enough people in West Oak...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 5:31pm PST
Back to the original article
I'm not sure why indybay censored my comments here but I'll repeat them.
This article was bad. It didn't address a main issue of who the culprits were. The a...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 6:44pm PST