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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 03:41 PM Jun 2018

Hey Nikki Haley: Come to Alabama to see 'patently ridiculous'

Source: AL.com, by John Archibald

It's patently ridiculous that regions like the Black Belt, where populations have fallen so far in recent decades that barely more than 20 people inhabit each square mile, have been forgotten and ignored.

It's a place that seems more like a developing nation than a land of opportunity, where children are more likely to be born to single mothers and more likely to die before they learn to walk.

Eight of the counties in Alabama's Black Belt are on the list of the 100 poorest counties by median household income, as counted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Four of them - Wilcox, Sumter, Green and Bullock - are in the bottom 25.

The bottom 25. Out of more than 3,000 counties nationally. Ridiculous.


The UN Report

"Punishing and imprisoning the poor is the distinctively American response to poverty in the twenty-first century," it said. "Workers who cannot pay their debts, those who cannot afford private probation services, minorities targeted for traffic infractions, the homeless, the mentally ill, fathers who cannot pay child support and many others are all locked up. Mass incarceration is used to make social problems temporarily invisible and to create the mirage of something having been done."



Sweet Home Alabama.



UN poverty official touring Alabama's Black Belt: 'I haven't seen this' in the First World



Darling Nikki is keeping busy, though.

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Hey Nikki Haley: Come to Alabama to see 'patently ridiculous' (Original Post) yallerdawg Jun 2018 OP
Geaux Archibald ! eppur_se_muova Jun 2018 #1
What I told an older American 'shocked' by some of the rural areas in Cuba a couple sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #2
K&R ! stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #3

eppur_se_muova

(37,563 posts)
1. Geaux Archibald !
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 03:45 PM
Jun 2018

He is a treasure. Not sure how he can deal with the responses he gets from our surplus of redhatters.

sinkingfeeling

(53,127 posts)
2. What I told an older American 'shocked' by some of the rural areas in Cuba a couple
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jun 2018

of weeks ago. "Have you never seen Alabama or Louisiana?"

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