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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEFerrari: Americans were fine with the looting of Baltimore until black kids did it.
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EFerrari: Americans were fine with the looting of Baltimore until black kids did it. (Original Post)
KamaAina
Apr 2015
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Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)1. Americans were also against beating children...
...until they saw a Baltimore mother beat a black child on TV.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)2. What looting was there before?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. The plundering of the city by the moneyed class
Baltimore was hit very hard by the subprime mortgage crisis.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. the bankers have been looting the US for the last 40 years or so
But THAT is legal looting.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)5. the bankers have been looting the US since before it existed.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)6. very true.
it is what bankers do. and they are well rewarded for doing so.