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Margaret Fox of Sedalia writes:

If Erika Gonzalez knew her history, she would know that the word “ghetto” comes from the times when Jews in Venice and other large cities were confined to certain areas and forced to wear yellow stars of David sewn to their clothing. It had nothing whatsoever to do with blacks and other minorities. Jews have had to live in Ghettos for centuries and have born it with dignity and in spite of the humiliation. Touchy Erika! Remember the old saying about those who refuse to study history are doomed to relive it. Also remember, journalist can be wrong in their articles and often are with no apology.

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I don't know how Erika Gonzalez used the word "ghetto" but the use and meaning of words changes over time. E.g. gay. Here is the definition of "ghetto" from dictionary.com:

"1. a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
2. (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
3. a section predominantly inhabited by Jews.
4. any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly."

I'm pretty sure the residents of the areas formerly known as "ghettos"(like the Warsaw Ghetto,maybe) might think current American ghetto residents have it pretty soft.Not that the sentiments of a few aged Jews have relevance in our forward-looking society.
What is relevant is that the modern American ghetto-hipstas and sistas say (and believe) that where they are is by golly a real live ghetto.And everyone who isn't them is a Nazi.

Jimminy seems to have the idea that if life in the ghettos in the United States is better than life in the Nazi Jewish ghettos, the people living there should be grateful.

I wonder how Jimminy's lifestyle compares with the life those hipstas and sistas live? I wonder if he has any idea of what life is like in those ghettos? Not unless he has lived there, though there is a good deal of literature that gives a pretty good idea, and it isn't a life that many people would be grateful for.

Not at all,Truth.I am simply pointing out that hipstas and sistas and their whitebread proxies such as yourself love to compare themselves to real victims,while at the same time cuddling up to those would wipe those same victims off the map.

Jimminy, you are one sick dude. What happened in your life to make you so embittered?

Jimminy, you are one sick dude. What happened in your life to make you so embittered?

There are many books that depict what life is like in the ghettos, such as those by Jonathan Kozol. The first one I read is a great one to learn about that. The title is There Are No Children Here and it is by Alex Kotlowitz Here is a revlew of the book:

"There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs. "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver," says Lafeyette at one point. That's if, not when--spoken with the complete innocence of a child. The book's title comes from a comment made by the brothers' mother as she and author Alex Kotlowitz contemplate the challenges of living in such a hostile environment: "There are no children here," she says. "They've seen too much to be children." This book humanizes the problem of inner-city pathology, makes readers care about Lafeyette and Pharoah more than they may expect to, and offers a sliver of hope buried deep within a world of chaos."

When the Anti-American Left is caught lying,they squeal all the louder.Read the previous three posts for examples.

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