Stephen Vincent wrote:
>> But here was this white Jewish guy, professional man,
>> monstrously abusing his girlfriend and beating his daughter to death.
>> Same difference as pot and heroin moving down from Harlem and the South
>> Bronx into the West Village. Now you get to look at it, get it out of
>> the Ghetto, see it invade the middle class: drugs and child abuse together.
>>
>
> Whoah, Womack!! The ghetto invented drug use and child abuse and exported it
> to the previously stable, kind, ever loving, non-abusive non-drinking, non
> other drugging, middle class!!?? Ken, your intelligence can go from very
> bright to weird in a split sentence. By extension, Exterminate the ghettos
> and 'we' would be so pure again.
> As you occasionally do, I would take a hard re-self exam and retread that
> sentence - maybe throw a grenade at it first! As I would.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
You're reading it wrong, perhaps. As usual you present an odd
combination of criticism, patronization, and vile insult. Never mind.
The point is that drugs got uptown first. I actually believe the Mario
Puzo version except the invasion of, say, Harlem by heroin, etc.
probably predated the Cosa Nostra by several generations. We also gave
whisky to the Indians. Different time, same objective, somewhat similar
result. No matter. Drugs moved downtown. I don't know how. Maybe
George Bush did it. The point, which you did not appear interested in
taking in the interest of deconstructing my syntax, was that nobody in
Whitelandia noticed drug addiction was an issue until it moved downtown
and/or to the suburbs, where it remains to this day along with having a
seemingly permanent position in ghettos everywhere.
Now--fallacy or not--since drugs were intended analogically, I shall go
back and revisit my steps. /As with drugs/, spousal and child abuse
were treated as Uptown problems. That is, nobody cared if Those People
were abusing their kids because that's how they were, etc., etc. I used
to see abused kid cases in the NYC Welfare Department all the time. If
anyone was prosecuted it was a miracle. Battered wives, busted-up kids,
even if you hurt for them you couldn't do anything because officialdom
was not interested.
Next. Joel Steinberg. White, Jewish, mustache, looks like guys I grew
up with. A lawyer. When people saw what this man had done to (1) Hedda
Nussbaum, (2) Mitchell Steinberg, and (3) Lisa Steinberg, the horror
finally made it out of the ghetto into mainstream White Man's New York.
This man looked like us. He hid in the crowd of professionals. He
would have stayed anonymous by virtue of his color and "mainstream"
religious non-proclivities save for the fact that he did exactly what
some people in Harlem, Bed-Stuy, Camden, and Newark did all the damn
time: he brutally murdered his child. That is what it took for many of
us to wake up. And if the record of the NJ Division of Youth and Family
Services is any indicator, we still haven't gotten it.
Is that any clearer or would you like it set to music?
Ken
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