If there is a fire or such when he is hosting one of these acts of compassion, both the city and every professional “homeless advocate” (who would never ever invite the homeless into their house) smelling headlines will sue/prosecute his butt for endangering vulnerable people.
One sexual assault or fist fight or a neighbor being mugged or stuff being stolen of a porch and he is toast… Homeless people are not inherently bad but neither are they inherently angels.
To bring someone in who might die from freezing to death is an act that cannot be gainsaid as to the need but modern society has so many traps and “gotchas” based on faulty reasoning and a major tendency to assume one chance in ten million is the same as certainty while ignoring the in your face likelihood some of those people will certainly die of cold if left outside.
Where are the local churches? They could open up some space too. That’s their job for Christ sake (literally). Get enough people/organizations doing it and the city will back off as it’d be a PR nightmare and politicians understand that really well as a rule.
See, I don’t see how this is “capitalism”'s fault. The jails and schools are both publicly funded. Underfunded/overfunded, what ever, that is the problem of priorities in funding. Democratic Socialists may not properly fund things either.
The link to the essay he wrote (i think it’s an essay) is in said post but i’m more than happy to repost it here for you for clarity I haven’t taken the time to scan the writing since i’m at work but i hope that’s it!
Part capitalism, part white supremacy. They work hand-in-hand.
As usual, there’s an Akala lyric for everything:
Let me not just make sweeping statements Gimme a second, I’ll explain it For small amounts of drug possession there’s more black people in jail in America than there is for rape and armed robbery and murder all put together You can say they’re just locking up thugs, Imagine if they locked up every middle class kid that had ever held drugs, Oh that’s right, that’d be your kids!
Bigger than that what is going on with this, Prison in America’s a private business They get paid 50k per year per inmate by the State, just wait… Also legally are allowed to use their prison inmates as slaves Cheap slave labour, big corporations They come out of jail, can’t get a job So when we celebrate going to jail, We are LITERALLY CELEBRATING ENSLAVEMENT🎵
Prison for profit is connected to the underfunding of schools. Each feeds the other.
Well even privatized jails are publicly funded. I am not sure if this is a privatized jail or not, but regardless of who runs it, the state funds it.
And the school in this case is publicly funded, though I know they get competition from private schools.
I agree with the point that jails in general should be a “service” of the state, not the “service” of an industry. But if the point is the system is corrupt and based on white supremacy, as well as other factors, capitalism isn’t he cause of that, just the tool. If we switched to a democratic socialism, but had the same issues as before, the outcomes will be the same. Screwed up priorities focused on punishing the poor vs uplifting them.
Sure, but the difference is that for-profit prisons (meaning they are contracted out to private corporations to run) are run with profit motive in mind. It’s well known that it’s caused a lot of problems in our already problematic system. I bet you that public prisons run by the state managed to have lower overhead, in part because the salaries of the people in charge are easier to keep under control vs. a private corporation.
Part of the problem here is again the capitalist mind set… we should care about all schools performing well, private or public. The profit motive gets in the way again. Of course, not all private schools are fun for profit - religious schools and many secular private schools are set up as non-profits - so it’s not really in competition with public schools, but are offering an alternative to the public school system for specific reasons - religious education or people who want to avoid the pitfalls of public school systems.
There are for-profit private schools that are set up specifically to turn a profit for corporations at the expense of the tax payer.
That’s actually debatable I think, whether or not white supremacy drove capitalism in a particular way or if capitalism created white supremacy. Given the evidence I know of from history, I lean towards the latter, but not all scholars who study capitalism and racism agree on that.
Well, again, not sure if the example in the above is private or state run. I am agreeing that certain things shouldn’t be privatized, and one of those things is the prison system. But the prison system was already one of if not the largest in the world even before the shift to privatizing part of it. It isn’t like we have had a large penal system just to make people money.
I am not sure how that is a “capitalist” mindset. The school system is one of the earliest and largest socialist programs the US has. Even the ruggedly independent among the founding fathers conceded that an educated public was what was best for the nation.
But there has always been gross inequality in that system. It has gotten a ton better over all, but it is still there.
Those who put kids in private schools, still pay their property taxes to fund public ones. The K-12 school system is largely publicly funded, mostly at the state level. So even if some people want to send their kids to private schools for what ever reason, I don’t think one can pin capitalism on why some schools are worse off than others (at least not directly).
The problem with public schools vary on region to region, city to city. Within my area we have both some of the best and some of the worst. A lot of this is due to funding and demographics of who attends the schools and the social ills they have to over come. The general correlation is the poorer the neighborhood, the poorer the school, and the poorer the performance. Even in progressive areas like NYC, the public schools are segregated by race and class, and the resources are also uneven.
I am not sure how they are the expense of the tax payer, other than the proposed voucher system. Forgive me if that is a thing elsewhere, I don’t believe it is here.Or am I missing something else. I would disagree with that system, even though I would benefit from it. But assuming that statement is correct, is that the reason the Boston school is having budgeting issues?
I don’t think they have anything to do with one another directly. That is the two can exist separately and not directly affect each other - or the two can co-exist, in which case it will affect each other. Racism is universal and all around the globe. Though America, I think, has it’s own brand of racism that is “different” than in any part of the world.
The way I see it, white supremacists spread white supremacy. In the case our the history of the US and slavery, and Europe and colonialism, that also coincided with capitalistic endeavors. So I do see how it was used in that context and can agree.
But it isn’t like Europeans were the only capitalists. Indians, Chinese, the Middle East, the rest of Asia and the South Pacific - were all part of a global trade back then. There were many different kinds of governments (most them still monarchies), religions, and cultures all intermingling and trading goods and services. Certainly there was also slavery and racism in those parts of the world as well, but it wasn’t because of capitalism.
Today we have many parts of the world growing and expanding due to new free trade and pro-capitalist ventures, such as China (which isn’t even a fully capitalist system, but is enjoying a huge boom thanks to it’s increase) or even Africa (which is poised to be the next China), yet capitalism isn’t promoting white supremacy.
I dunno, my problem is that some people frame everything bad is Capitialism’s fault, which I think is as disingenuous as saying anything Socialist is bad. At the same time, I find it annoying people who think capitalism will always sort itself out, but history has shown that doesn’t happen. It seems there should be a hybrid of the two for society to function the best.
I haven’t taken the time to scan the writing since i’m at work but i hope that’s it!
Let me not just make sweeping statements
