Anti-poverty billboards urging
people to get a job, finish
school removed after backlash
Washington Times,
by
Valerie Richardson
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/20/2020 4:22:02 PM
A series of anti-poverty billboards sponsored by a Black conservative group urges young people to finish school, get a job, get married and save money, but apparently that advice was too inflammatory for Milwaukee. The “Tired of Poverty” billboards, part of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education’s “Success Sequence” campaign, were removed this week by Clear Channel Outdoor after complaints about the message, which one local woman described as an “attack.” The four billboards featured photos of young Black people with the message, “Tired of Poverty? Finish school. Take Any Job. Get Married. Save & Invest. Give Back to Your Neighborhood.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DARling 8/20/2020 4:32:23 PM (No. 515886)
I'm supposed to think that screaming mobs of anarchists should be able to spew whatever nonsense they choose. I think inner city blacks can handle the sight of a billboard telling them ways to improve their lives.
The anarchists are ruining inner cities. The black conservative group is trying to save them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 8/20/2020 4:36:55 PM (No. 515888)
The commie/dems have to keep their chosen people on the plantation dependent on gov largess
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 8/20/2020 4:42:10 PM (No. 515895)
Can’t let those imprisoned on the democrat plantation even THINK about escaping!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HPmatt 8/20/2020 4:48:02 PM (No. 515902)
Complainers must have moved to Milwaukee from somewhere else, didn't know the 'Polly Williams' democrat teachers union taught black Milwaukee schoolkids to read....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 8/20/2020 4:49:05 PM (No. 515903)
Our pastor (Dallas Theo Seminary) always says the Church grows when persecution begins. People realize they’re not alone.
One if these days, Conservatives are going to wake up and realize they’re not alone and will start standing up.
Fight back, people! There are more of us than them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/20/2020 4:50:00 PM (No. 515904)
I'm an old white guy with white hair. I'm a polar bear and I can't tell them what these black conservatives are telling them. They are right but even black conservatives get trashed for telling the truth. Black Lives Matter except, apparently, theirs. God Bless and don't give up because I think black lives DO matter.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/20/2020 4:50:55 PM (No. 515905)
There is a faction in Black “communities” that rejects White cultural factors as those mentioned in the article, factors that make people successful in modern Western capitalist societies, as being racist, and not fit for Black folks. That’s the real story that sustains degenerate Black ghetto culture, that in turn spawns spontaneous arson, looting, and general rioting that just about always ends up destroying critical “community” commercial centers and especially drug and grocery stores. Nobody except the Black “community” itself can correct that circumstance of ghetto Black lifestyle.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 8/20/2020 4:52:18 PM (No. 515907)
Yep, an 'attack' on lazy azzed welfare groupies that would rather riot than work at a decent job, raise a family, be a parental (male or female) figure and make their own way.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/20/2020 4:57:20 PM (No. 515908)
Like the line from the movie A Few Good Men:
"You can't HANDLE the truth!"
Sad. If it was followed, they would benefit greatly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
pinger 8/20/2020 4:58:09 PM (No. 515909)
Of course that would be taken down. If poverty would ever go away that would be the end of the Democrat party. No more victims to lie to.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Krause 8/20/2020 5:05:42 PM (No. 515913)
I think most of the poverty people are rather comfortable with the dems. They have welfare and all kinds of other programs of assistance to give them some sort of acceptable live, and a reason not to strive. If some of them want to break out of the doldrums, they pretty much know the path to take, like what was on the billboard. LBJ had it right.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 8/20/2020 5:12:04 PM (No. 515917)
why would common sense be pushed. stay on tax payer welfare.. why work. when someone else can work and support you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/20/2020 5:13:50 PM (No. 515918)
Milwaukee used to be a big union town. Now its a big poverty town. Democrats always achieve the exact opposite of what they promise.
They say, We'll save the Earth..." Be certain, if allowed, they will manage to destroy it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mathman 8/20/2020 5:18:08 PM (No. 515919)
No acting white allowed here.
Have babies. Get welfare. Sell drugs. Steal.
Act black.
Follow the narrative.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lftrn97 8/20/2020 5:40:27 PM (No. 515929)
And be a father if you sire a child!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/20/2020 5:50:45 PM (No. 515937)
AND the Communists in Congress LOVE having SLAVES.
Don't you people get it? Here's your $15 bucks and some food. NOW VOTE FOR US and we'll see you in 2 years...la la la....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
padiva 8/20/2020 6:22:32 PM (No. 515958)
Also, pull your pants up. You may think that you are so cool that people will want to see your underwear.
The fad for droopy pants started in prisons....It's flirting for being the 'girl.'
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Clearinnc 8/20/2020 6:41:16 PM (No. 515964)
According to the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of African American History, this whole "work ethic, rugged individualism, nuclear family" thing is a "whiteness" trait and other ethnicities need not bother themselves with it. That, and more, was on their "Whiteness Chart" that has since been removed but have no doubt, there are still large segments of society that feel that way. That having a work ethic is a 'white privilege' thing and if you don't subscribe to it, it's okay, there are OTHER ways to get what you want that doesn't involve working for it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/20/2020 6:46:16 PM (No. 515968)
This is exactly what destroyed Bill Cosby even before the rape allegations. He dared to suggest that blacks change their gangsta/victim culture and make something of themselves.
Bottom line - it’s easier to sit home in the ghetto and collect your monthly largesse from Uncle Sam.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/20/2020 6:46:19 PM (No. 515969)
I guess the have shut down all of the DARE offices and ad campaigns too. Drug Abuse Resistance Education has gone by the wayside. Instead of Nancy Reagan's Just Say No anti-drug campaign, now its the Just Say Hell Yeah campaign of Berock and Biteme. People thrive on being dependent on the government for food stamps welfare unemployment and disability. So why work, why get an education? They all want the easier softer way!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 8/20/2020 6:49:37 PM (No. 515975)
Messages such as these are a threat to slave owners.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/20/2020 7:18:17 PM (No. 515993)
The Din Doo-Nuffins couldn’t be Din Doo-Nuffins if they had to do something.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 8/20/2020 7:35:44 PM (No. 516007)
What upsets me the most about this whole issue is that LBJ won. He said "vote in the Great Society and they'll be voting for us for 100 years." (forgive that it's just my interpretation of what he said)
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/20/2020 8:10:59 PM (No. 516029)
If you aren't going to permit free speech I say then tear the billboards down, its public airspace.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
4Justice 8/20/2020 9:55:58 PM (No. 516088)
People who don't want to act responsibly consider a suggestion to do so as an "attack".
"How DARE you tell me what I should to to get out of poverty!"
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Justcurious 8/21/2020 12:05:00 AM (No. 516136)
Good on them. God will bless them.
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Why would they do that ? It's very lucrative to live in poverty today. And it's delivered.
Clark Howard said recently that 1 in 5 kids and 1 in 8 adults are hungry. Show me who they are. If anybody, it's the elderly who need food.
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