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This is very flawed I don’t even know where to begin

You're wrong if you agree with this guy. "It's a culture problem" is subconscious/veiled racism. It's an opinion that relies only on feelings and no data. No matter how smart Shapiro makes it sound, he has zero data to back up what he's spewing when he says this. He's listing out a bunch of things that are negatives while trying to sound angry, but he has nothing to back up his conclusion on the cause of these things, which is that it's a cultural problem only. It's pretty easy to see how his arguments work. Just come up with a made up cause of something, then state a bunch of facts about the something in order to sound smart. I think he is smart, but he's relying on the fact that no one can check the data while he's giving a speech, and he can mislead with the data. You can take each and every one of the things he pukes out angrily and there is an explanation on why that has nothing to do with whatever culture problem he's talking about. I'll take one of them - "You tell me why Black kids aren't graduating high school!" Black kids are more likely to attend schools with below average funding. Black kids are less likely to have parents and grandparents who received a high school or college education. Their grandparents and great grandparents grew up when there was still segregation. It's a legitimate/valid reason. Those people are alive right now. It wasn't that long ago. And before anyone starts the "but there are poor White people who make it" argument, we're talking about a rate. Black people are successful, too, but the rate is lower because more are born into poverty.

This is the point I'm trying to get at. When two teams start out on the 20, but one gets a personal foul for 15 yards and the other half the distance to the goal for the same personal foul, you'd be mad at the players but screaming at the refs wouldn't you, @B.B. Hemingway?

The whole point of the discussion is you can't really set those aside.

Just something to think about when we discuss African American and Indian population; what happens to a group who is still trying to overcome institutional racism, when you take away their parental figures (through incarceration or force boarding school), then tell them that they should be better people while not funding their schools, their communities and continually giving them harsher penalties than their peers of other races?

@Moiraine You brought up an important corollary in this discussion: the opioid epidemic. One of the more insightful revelations I have happened upon is the language (and approach) we've used towards drug crimes as a society. Remember when we had the crack epidemic in the 80s? The end result by our government was the War on Drugs, a crime bill to harshly penalize drug crimes and massive, disproportionate, lasting negative impact on African Americans in the U.S. Now we're essentially going through the same thing with opioid use/abuse, which is a predominantly white problem. But now it's talked about in terms of a public health crisis and our approach stresses the importance of the need for treatment and rehabilitation of those affected instead of punishment. How much of that is us learning from the err of our ways from the crack epidemic, and how much of it is because it is a white rather than a black problem?

My point is it is unjust that people get treated different by our criminal justice system for committing the exact same offenses based solely on the color of their skin. And frankly, everyone has their own ideas about which laws are just. Pot would be a good example. An even more benign example would be low-grade speeding or jaywalking. Or take some of those generally ancient but yet still codified nonsense state laws that are still on the books. Should those offenses be policed to the full extent of the law? If we can agree that some laws are increasingly or already incompatible with our modern civilization, how do we determine which laws to enforce and which should be eliminated? My point is I don't think we all have the same ideas about this. Human beings inherently don't agree on these things.But people's lives shouldn't hang in the balance based on decisions by those who run our criminal justice system deciding who deserves further scrutiny, to get pulled over, to get popped for what laws, how harshly to get prosecuted, etc.

I also think if he loves his visit he may commit. Man this is easy

Glad they can eyeroll instead of actually having a discussion. I'll take eyerolls as them not acknowledging reality and believing in ancient aliens.

lot's of roll eyes in these last few posts. guess the roll eye posse is hard at work

DJ?

I completely realize that. If he were to wake up tomorrow and decide to end hunger by cashing in stock, he could lose his controlling interest. But it’s not that easy anyway. Right now he’s staring down the barrel of potentially paying half to his wife in a divorce. Which would also potentially make him lose control of Amazon. But right now he’s got a team of lawyers and financial planners working for him trying to figure out a way to make his wife the richest woman in the world AND retain control of Amazon. So that tells me there’s a way that he could do the same to end hunger in America. But my original point wasn’t to tell JB what to do with his money. My point was to show that there are obscenely rich people that COULD do way more good than they doing. They could literally end major strife in this country without hurting themselves financially. Instead it is put back on the shoulders of those working for the obscenely rich to take care of their fellow human. As it always has

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425067-trump-concealed-details-of-meeting-with-putin-from-senior-officials https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html The walls are closing in.

I got lost at "poverty doesn't make a person sell drugs". Have you not seen "Breaking Bad"?????!!! All jokes aside. I'm not impoverished, I wouldn't sell drugs or steal to support my kids. However, if I saw my kids starving or need medical treatments I cant afford, you better believe I'm gonna do whatever it takes to feed/help them. Laws be damned...

I think if he is neutral he may Atleast look elsewhere. We are all nailing this.

I think if he doesnt like his visit he will not commit to Nebraska

Schaefer also thinks if he loves his visit then he will likely commit.

Here's another example of his assumption his audience is stupid. He purposely leaves out the poverty rate for non-married Black families and White married couples, because that's the correct comparison to make but the data likely refutes his point. That data would show that Black married couples are poorer than White married couples, and Black single moms are poorer than White single moms. He's purposely misleading the audience. Also, no one is arguing that the only cause of poverty for a Black person is systematic racism. Not being married and facing systematic racism as a Black person can both be factors. Not being married is probably a larger one.

Held to the recruits in our 500 mile radius:

25 commits right now, though Bland is a bit of a question mark. 25 open spots plus however many over-signs. Word is we are taking 30 - though a couple might be grad transfers. I think it will be a couple less than that. Maybe a spot or two for walk-ons as well.  Current Scholarships/Commits QB - 1 - LUKE McCAFFREY RB - 3 - RAHMIR JOHNSON, RONALD THOMPKINS, JUCO DEDRICK MILLS, John Bivens WR - 3-4 - JAMIE NANCE, DARIEN CHASE, WANDALE ROBINSON, Demariyon Houston, Charles Njoku TE - 1 - CHRIS HICKMAN OT - 3 - MATTHEW ANDERSON, BRYCE BENHART, JIMMY FRITZSCHE OG/C - 1-2 - JUCO DESMOND BLAND, MICHAEL LYNN NT - 0-1 - Matthew Pola-Mao DE - 4 - ETHAN PIPER, MOSAI NEWSOM, BRANT BANKS, TY ROBINSON ILB - 3 - JACKSON HANNAH, NICK HENRICH, GARRETT SNODGRASS OLB - 2-3 - GARRETT NELSON, JAMIN GRAHAM, Dylan Jordan, Steven Parker CB - 2-3 - QUINTON NEWSOME, JAVIN WRIGHT, Tavian Mayo, Jamel Starks, DJ James S - 2 - MYLES FARMER, Noa Pola-Gates    Early Enrollees: McCaffrey, WRobinson, Nance, Hickman, Banks, Henrich, Nelson

Nebraska fans on February 7th

This guy is a straight up puppet. What innocent person acts this way? I honestly don't understand how Trump supporters can defend this. Knowing what we know, how can you possibly be OK with him meeting several times privately with the man who oversaw the assault on our democracy, and subsequently suppressing any and all details about what was said? You'd have to be a willfully ignorant rube.

Player: Marcus Rosemy Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Florida School: St. Thomas Aquinas Position: Wide Receiver Height: 6-3 Weight: 195 40 Time: Power 5 Offers: Florida, Florida State, Miami, Ohio State, Arkansas, Boston College, Cincinnati, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ole Miss, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Texas, Wake Forest, Nebraska Visits: Twitter 247 Composite: #29 Overall; #5 WR; .9853; Rivals: #26 Overall; #5 WR; 247: #34 Overall; #4 WR; ESPN: #63 Overall; #8 WR; Hudl

Here are the links: https://247sports.com/Player/Marcus-Rosemy-46043121/ https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2020/marcus-rosemy-185565 http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/230869/marcus-rosemy https://www.hudl.com/profile/7888525/Marcus-Rosemy

The removal of parents due to incarceration seems to be everybody's fault except for the person that was incarcerated. Disproportionate incarceration rates aside, if you don't want to be incarcerated, don't partake in illegal activity. Especially if you believe "the system" has it out for you. Like I said before, none of the excuses you mentioned force them to engage in illegal doings. You don't have to be responsible for 52% of murders at only 13% of the population. Murder, and other illegal activity is a choice. Plain and simple. "Poverty made me do it", "The system made me do it" are excuses that would never be acceptable outside of the minority communities.

We've been working overtime to shore up our inside game and pull one off. Maryland dominated Indiana inside on their comeback win. WE CAN DO IT!

So you're against somebody inheriting a livelihood from their own family, but you're okay with someone inheriting a livelihood from taxpayers they've never met? Very, very interesting....

Member that time when 1995 Redux and GSG5545 made a pact to remove the numbers from their names? Wild times.

Looks like someone ate DW

Imagine if Bezos could live off a measly 100 million and commit the rest of his fortune to lifting those in need up

Looks like DW stopped by this morning like we did for Dylan J. We can sell the kid by telling him how oir DBs improved once DW left.

Cue the Polynesian pipeline comment

Tulsi Gabbard just stated in an interview she's running. I watched a few of her videos and I really like her. She's 37, has been a U.S. rep for 5 years, was the youngest ever state legislator in U.S. history, served in the Iraq war and is still a major in the national guard.

Chevette Perkiomen. Coincidentally that’s also my porn name.

Hell, I'm a 33 year old man and I'd probably lose my effing mind :/

just 2 radical lefties being snowflakes

I'm a big advocate for all 5 power 5 champs getting in, plus the best group of 5 champ if they are rated in the top 10, plus 2 at large spots. That said, this years playoff was dreadful. We got a mismatch for Bama and turns out Clemson truly was just head and shoulders better than everyone. (Maybe Syracuse should be ranked?) We don't need crappy matchups, but we do need a system that makes winning games and winning your conference matter. Right now they make it painfully clear that playing a tough schedule, being in certain conferences matter more than other things like records. Adam Carriker had a pretty good idea honestly, forgive me if this has already been posted elsewhere as my board frequency has been sporadic as of late. It's unique and fair, meaning most conference higher ups would never go for it, but I do like the concept. https://www.omaha.com/huskers/carriker/carriker-chronicles-an-eight-team-playoff-isn-t-the-fix/article_83532f56-8326-56d8-b64b-954056cd438b.html

People are guessing that Miami and West Virginia are good landing spots. I personally think that Miami fits his attitude and play style the best.

I'm sure I have criticized people. I usually don't back it up with partial truth tweets though

Awww, he think's he's people.