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July 5, 2013

The Coke Cage [Bumped]

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Aside from the police officers constantly on patrol, a sure sign that you are in a black school is the coke cage: the chain-link fence that many majority-black schools use to protect vending machines.
The cage surrounds the machine and even covers its top. Delivery employees have to unlock a gate on the front of the cage to service the machines. Companies would prefer not to build cages around vending machines. They are expensive, ugly, and a bother, but black students smashed the machines so many times it was cheaper to build a cage than repair the damage. -- Essay by a teacher in a black high school | Black & Right

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 5, 2013 7:06 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Depressing! If this teacher's experiences and conclusions are true, the blacks that I know are real outliers. I sincerely hope that isn't true! But then, I don't have the experience he does.

I do agree that the educational powers that be are stuck on stupid. Long ago they decided to make education more fun, more welcoming, more appealing to recalcitrant young minds. Nothing they have tried has worked. But they refuse to go back to what does - repetition and wrote memorization. So it's change, change, and more change all chasing the goal of making learning more enjoyable, less onerous. They have failed and will continue to fail. Abolish the Department of Education - NOW!

Posted by: Jimmy J. at July 4, 2013 9:02 AM

One teacher called into one of the radio shows I listen two and he compared the zero-tolerance policy in his school that winds up suspending children for toy guns and the see-no-evil policy when a black kid in the same school is suspected of having a real pistol. The teachers then avoid at all cost getting the police involved so they don't put the little darling into the prison pipeline.

Posted by: Scott M at July 4, 2013 4:54 PM

I work with twenty-something African Expats. They run the gamut, but for the most part they are loveable, seeking a better life. Still, one argues the efficacy of genital mutilation, another I think might eat me if he had the chance, but all decry the corruption of the native lands... Ah, the evils of colonialism.

Posted by: Casca at July 5, 2013 1:57 PM

It's quite true. I saw the exact same thing at my old high school in Sacramento last May. It was a schøol that was at least 80% Black. It had the Coke Cage and a Day Care Center.

Posted by: vanderleun at July 5, 2013 5:55 PM

I once worked with vending machines - very briefly - and what saw in the late 1980's was how armored they were inside. Getting to anything like the product or the money would have meant a lot of work and tools.

If that is not enough than I am depressed - and happy that I am starting on my way out.

Posted by: Mikey h at July 5, 2013 7:47 PM

Well, Detroit is the prototype.

Best thing to do would be to stand back and let them have at it. They deserve themselves.

Could be viable for other nations, too ... something ... something about Isolationist Policy comes to mind.

Let them eat cake, or each other. Sooner or later the fittest will survive.

Posted by: chasmatic at July 5, 2013 9:45 PM

The racist and segregated America of 1950 holds no comparable example of a concentration of black people so hopelessly degraded. Funny that.

Posted by: james wilson at July 5, 2013 10:35 PM

The problem with the "let them have it" attitude is the barbarians don't stop and enjoy the "it" that we stop fighting with them about. Look at Atlanta, for just one example. Suburb after suburb around Atlanta has been re-urbanized. Near the edge of each one of these future no-go zones is a neighborhood or suburb that is affordable and livable. Guess where the barbarians go for burglary or just a new crib once their old one burns down. The blight will seek out the non-blighted areas and the blight will spread.

This is why it is so futile to keep moving away in hopes of avoiding the problem. They will find you and their survival depends on them finding you. Better to address these problems where they are now than hoping the problems will burn out after it grabs the next group or the next suburb.

Posted by: Scott M at July 5, 2013 11:02 PM

Chasmatic, I agree. The only caveat necessary is to have some group ready to shoot the survivors.

Why put the machines in the schools? The cost of the machine and the cage has to be more than the return on sales.
The one item to be prevented is the schools placing machines at taxpayer expense.

Posted by: Peccable at July 6, 2013 4:18 AM

Scott:

My words were "let them have AT it", synonymous with "do it" or "go to it", think: start and proceed.

I am suggesting that the unruly self-devouring destructive factions be allowed to wreak violence and mayhem upon each other and themselves without being restrained and enabled and excused and picked up after by people with something to lose.

Sometimes we try to put the fire out; other times it is best to let it burn. The fire will cease when all fuel is consumed just as a virus will die when the host perishes.

Peccable:

Well, yes, surgeons regularly excise the malignancy, remove the tumor from the organism. Clear cut lines must be drawn, a perimeter established: come no further.

In the style of Burroughs: "out there I don't care what you do. Shave your ass and walk backwards, fuck goats, eat each other's genitals, bark at the moon. If you cross the line and enter my perimeter I will kill you."

Good fences make good neighbors. Strong fencers, better.

Posted by: chasmatic at July 6, 2013 6:06 AM

You can ignore the truth, or pretend the truth is not the truth, or deny the truth to its face, but sooner or later you, me, and all of us are going to have to face the ugly and unpleasant truth whether we like it or not.

Are you ready? Are you willing to stop pretending and face the truth?

Posted by: Shibes Meadow at July 6, 2013 8:22 AM

Note that in order for the Democratic establishment to find an acceptably "clean" & "articulate" black to sell their fascist progressive brand to their unwitting marks, they defaulted to a [questionable] Kenyan-American formatively educated in an Indonesian madrassa and subsequently painted with a thin veneer of "America" in Hawaii and Chicago...By a long train of commie mentors.

2+2=5
white-yellow/black=RED

Democrat math.

Posted by: monkeyfan at July 6, 2013 9:39 AM

Ah, nothing like calling a spade a spade.

"Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding".

Posted by: chasmatic at July 6, 2013 1:57 PM

Chasmatic, I mis-read your comment. I apologize. I'll try to be more careful.

Posted by: Scott M at July 6, 2013 9:58 PM

Doesn't surprise me, my wife and I were jumped by Section 8 Diversities while watching the Mel Gibson movie 'Signs'.

It seems that calling each other east or west coast nig***s, loudly and phoning during the show was acceptable for the section 8 diversities. After the third complaint to management about the disruption, we along with other non-section 8 diversities were jumped.

The cops said that this happens about every other week on average. Which is why we left and moved a thousand miles away.

It was Lancaster Ca., hey aren't they, Lancaster and Palmdale, being sued for cracking down on the section 8 diversities? Yes.

Don't call them liberal, call them illiberal!

Don't call them democrats, call them commiecrats, or demoncrats - hail satan, allah ackbar.

Sorry for venting, but this hit close to home. A tooth through your cheek wakes you up. My naivety is lost, I 'am aware.

Posted by: Christopher at July 6, 2013 11:05 PM

Doesn't surprise me, my wife and I were jumped by Section 8 Diversities while watching the Mel Gibson movie 'Signs'. It seems that calling each other east or west coast nig***s, loudly and phoning during the show was acceptable for the section 8 diversities. After the third complaint to management about the disruption, we along with other non-section 8 diversities were jumped.
The cops said that this happens about every other week on average. Which is why we left and moved a thousand miles away.
It was Lancaster Ca., hey aren't they, Lancaster and Palmdale, being sued for cracking down on the section 8 diversities? Yes.
Don't call them liberal, call them illiberal!
Don't call them democrats, call them commiecrats, or demoncrats - hail satan, allah ackbar.

Sorry for venting, but this hit close to home. A tooth through your cheek wakes you up. My naivety is lost, I 'am aware.

Posted by: Christopher at July 6, 2013 11:05 PM

Doesn't surprise me, my wife and I were jumped by Section 8 Diversities while watching the Mel Gibson movie 'Signs'. It seems that calling each other east or west coast nig***s, loudly and phoning during the show was acceptable for the section 8 diversities. After the third complaint to management about the disruption, we along with other non-section 8 diversities were jumped.
The cops said that this happens about every other week on average. Which is why we left and moved a thousand miles away.
It was Lancaster Ca., hey aren't they, Lancaster and Palmdale, being sued for cracking down on the section 8 diversities? Yes.
Don't call them liberal, call them illiberal!
Don't call them democrats, call them commiecrats, or demoncrats - hail satan, allah ackbar.

Sorry for venting, but this hit close to home. A tooth through your cheek wakes you up. My naivety is lost, I 'am aware.

Posted by: Christopher at July 6, 2013 11:08 PM

Don't point too many fingers, that's where all our society is headed, if the left has its way.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 7, 2013 10:53 AM

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