Mode$t Propo$al$

A friend of the blog emails a PiPress story in which it’s noted the Twin Cities ranks 92 out of 100 metro areas for racial equity, according to the NAACP:

They dont even give us the official name of this survey so to properly look it up?
Of course I find a link to how more money would help this. Convenient these stories come out after a PROPOSED budget surplus.

Of course. The story isn’t about informing people who think critically. It’s about starting the process of shaking down taxpayers…

…to set the stage for the next shakedown.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

13 thoughts on “Mode$t Propo$al$

  1. Link to study:

    https://www.naacp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/EconomicInclusionPlanTwinCities-3.pdf

    I did not study it, just glanced at it. I find lots of statistics but little explanation for the cause of the statistics. Policy recommendations begin on Page 23. In the economic area, it’s straight DFL: raise the minimum wage, unionize workers, more welfare, eliminate payday loans, paid sick leave, equal pay for equal work, ban credit checks and criminal background checks by employers, punish religious organizations.

    It’s like opening a book to begin reading in the middle of the story. Some poor orphan is in distress, her life is awful, nobody will help her. Okay, but how’d she get there? If she killed her parents with an axe, then maybe her plight is well-deserved?

    Similarly, how is it possible that Blacks in Minnesota consistently remain the dregs of society, the poorest, the most likely to be arrested, decade after decade while more recently arrived Asian, Latino, even Somali immigrants come here with nothing and within a generation are thriving? What mysterious force is at work promoting some but restraining others?

    I didn’t find the answer in the report. Without knowing the cause, can you ever find an effective solution? Maybe others will.

  2. “Similarly, how is it possible that Blacks in Minnesota consistently remain the dregs of society, the poorest, the most likely to be arrested, decade after decade while more recently arrived Asian, Latino, even Somali immigrants come here with nothing and within a generation are thriving?”

    Asians and Latins don’t have a culture of gibsmedat. They don’t have poverty pimps preying on them. They don’t have an NAACP.

    I do take issue with your inclusion of Somalis though, Joe. I don’t have hard numbers, but they prominently appear in crime stories, and are predominantly thriving on welfare. If someone can cite one tangible, good thing a Somali has done for America, I’ll donate $25 to the charity of their choosing.

  3. I read the article when it came out, and it said that Mark Dayton had proposed a $100 million plan to address this inequality, but the mean legislature “cut” this to just $50 million.

    My question: can we show just where that $50 million went, and what effect it has had on inequality? Certainly, $50 million would have done something, right? Before we throw another $50 million, or $50, at this we should have some evidence that it’s working – other than looking at the luxury cars and apartments of some activists, I mean.

  4. It strikes me that all the sociological research I’ve seen suggests that the biggest thing separating the “haves” from the “have nots” is called “marriage before having children.” One has to wonder whether we might help all minorities and whites alike on the poorer end of income and wealth scales simply by reducing the degree to which the government discriminates against the married–tax codes, welfare codes, and the like.

  5. Swiftee, I have no personal knowledge of Somalis. I’m making a general observation. It remains to be seen if I’m correct or mistaken.

    It seems to me the first generation of immigrants has it toughest because they’re stuck in old-way-thinking. But within a generation or two, the kids grow up in the melting pot, learn to be Americans, and move up in society. Swede Hollow and Frogtown started as ethnic slums but their descendants live in Shoreview or Woodbury or Mac-Groveland.

    The first Vietnamese and Hmong boat people started arriving right after the Vietnam War, around 1975, and packed into the most wretched housing in the worst neighborhoods. Today, their descendants own half the businesses on University Avenue and their kids are consistently tops in class rank.

    First generation Somali immigrants might be mentally stuck in patterns of success from the Old Country, which may include a casual disregard for irksome laws and a culture of grabbing everything you can get. Theirs isn’t the only society with that attitude. Some of their kids are growing up marinated in the Old Ways, taught hate, sent overseas to die. But the rest of that generation goes to St. Paul schools, watches television, surfs the web, go to the mall, work at Target, flirt with infidel. They’re already becoming generic “Americans.” Their kids, told about the Old Country, will roll their eyes and say “Here we go again, walked to jihad, uphill both ways, carrying your lunch, yada, yada.”

    But not American Blacks. 150 years after the Civil War ended, they still fail to thrive in Minnesota. Why?

  6. Thomas Sowell’s “Black Red Necks & White Liberals” has some interesting insights into the issue.

  7. I find this report shocking! I am outraged! Therefore I have chosen to live somewhere to live besides the Twin cities!
    That will show those racists on the city council!

  8. Therefore I have chosen to live somewhere to live besides the Twin cities!

    The St. Croix River Valley may be too close, once the City Council starts pressing for “regional” solutions.

  9. MP
    a lot of Twin Cities boomers are retiring to the St. Croix River Valley area ( Polk, St Croix, Dunn.Trempeleau, Barron, Pierce, Pepin, Burnett,,counties) and they are bringing their politics with them. The daily 7am faceoff between retired progressives and conservatives over coffee at the local Holiday Station is some of the best entertainment in town.

  10. I have long had my suspicions that the “Watershed Cafe” in Osceola is a hotbed of lesbianry!

  11. MP,

    I’m inclined to agree with your assessment of the Watershed.

    Unfortunately, the progs moving to conservative areas and bringing their politics with them, is a pervasive problem. My Texas and Arizona buddies have told me that in addition to the infiltration, the Dims are spending butt tons of money in their areas. Of course, both Austin and Houston, TX has been largely left wing for decades, but some of the most conservative bastions in and around Dallas are getting worse every year, primarily due to Illinois losers and Californicators.

  12. Well in a few years I am planning on doing my part to shore up the Dallas area and abandon Minnesota.

  13. to Illinois losers

    Wisconsinites to their credit have a special word for people from IL, FIBs, that is, Effing Illinois B@sta@rds. I’m sure they’d be happy to to let you use it.

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