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Paris is burning but I am not sure what exactly is the problem. Is it really the French muslims or more established authorities trying to pin the problems on small fringe groups they want to get rid of. If you really want to check a great segment on European Muslims in the European Union take a look at an article I read from an eZine titled What's Eating the European Union but you need to subscribe to receive their free publication. I think the name is the West Coast Midnight Tracks (Run?), not sure about the exact name, but I got their October issue and it had a very interesting commentary on this very topic.
Salam Al-Marayati wrote in the Los Angelas Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Friday, November 18, 2005 that America won’t suffer the rioting now occurring in France.
I am unsure.
Seven major cities in America have unemployment rates for another minority group of men of between forty and fifty percent (in Milwaukee it’s sixty percent). In these same cities the ex-felon rate is between fifty and sixty percent of this population.
America’s prison recidivism rate remains just under seventy percent.
African-Americans constitute twelve percent of the U.S. population, thirteen percent of it’s drug using population, and about seventy-four percent of the people in prison for drug possession. Approximately eighty percent of young black men under age thirty-five have a criminal record.
The United states incarcerates seven times more people per capita than most European democracies, despite the fact we have similar rates of crime. Incarceration has become one of the fastest growing businesses in the United State, generating large profits.
Finding a job for a man with a criminal record is very difficult. If you are a man of color it’s even harder.
Success usually means low wages and no benefits. $7/hour doesn’t pay for a new car let alone a house.
The high school dropout rate for their male children is about fifty percent. The teen pregnancy rate among their daughters is astronomical.
66% of African American men living in Minneapolis Minnesota (Hennepin County) are felons. 44% of Black men living in Hennepin County were arrested in 2001 (there were no duplicate arrests—and 58% of the arrested men went on to be re-arrested for a second crime within 2 years). African American Men’s Study.
13 percent of America’s Black men are barred from voting because they are felons (1.4 million men). More than ten states have disenfranchised over twenty percent of their Black Male citizens.
In 1986 Philadelphia law enforcement lost five officers as it bombed the Move organization and burned to the ground blocks of poor peoples homes in the process.
Today (November 18, 2005) the United States federal government cut fifty billion dollars from programs that help mostly the children of the men I write about.
Some of these Children I’ve come to know in the Hennepin County child protection system as a guardian ad Litem. Children who without help from the programs that were unfunded today, will soon become much like their fathers.
At the same time, the senate is passing laws to make certain, that nothing disturbs the great wealth owned by those at the top of the pile.
Rioting by Muslims, maybe not.
www.invisiblechildren.org
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Mike T
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