Charles Jones in his own words

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Originally Posted by CharlesJones

Erich you do listen to too much rap music. Rappers have gotten in your head and you believe what they say about snitching on criminals isn't cool. Most rappers aren't intelligent and you shouldn't let them influence your way of thinking.

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I dont get my opinions from rappers. Let me tell you a story. My mother got cancer in 2001. She had just bought a car before she got sick. When she died I could not afford the payments on the car. I could not bear the thought of the bank takin the car, so I sold a little weed 2 try to keep it. Problem is there was a snake in tha grass (a piece of shit snitch) who ratted on me. Long story made short I was locked up like an animal 4 three months. (with murderers and rapists that could have killed me) Now tell me, what is the good in that? People need to mind their own business. Na mean? I posed no threat 2 anyone homie!

Well selling weed isn't as bad as selling drugs but you were selling a illegal substance. I don't have a problem with people who sell weed but i definitely got a problem with drug dealers that destroy the black community and make the neighborhood unsafe. I worry about the black children because they're innocent and they don't deserve to be around that ignorance because their lives could get taken away and that's not right. I wanna see kids in a safe environment and when drug dealers sell drugs in a community where there's kids, that's not cool because the kids are the future.

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Originally Posted by CharlesJones

Well selling weed isn't as bad as selling drugs but you were selling a illegal substance. I don't have a problem with people who sell weed but i definitely got a problem with drug dealers that destroy the black community and make the neighborhood unsafe. I worry about the black children because they're innocent and they don't deserve to be around that ignorance because their lives could get taken away and that's not right. I wanna see kids in a safe environment and when drug dealers sell drugs in a community where there's kids, that's not cool because the kids are the future.

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Ok, so maybe you are right about this. But, how does jailin a drug dealer make tha community more safe? As soon as everyone knows hes been incarcerated there are several people tryin 2 take his clientele. It's a battle that cannot, and will not be won! (war on drugs)

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Originally Posted by ERICHWV

Ok, so maybe you are right about this. But, how does jailin a drug dealer make tha community more safe? As soon as everyone knows hes been incarcerated there are several people tryin 2 take his clientele. It's a battle that cannot, and will not be won! (war on drugs)

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Thats real, and I'll say it again, the goverment's current position on drugs is like tryin to kill a tree by pickin its leaves. It targets the impoverished and takes 'em from convert slaves to outright slaves, and what progress is made from all those youth locked in prison? How has it benefited the community? What progress is going to be made from it? And do these same streets who we wish to rid of drugs have a local liquor store in their vacinity? Have you ever seen a dog chasin after his own tale?

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Thats real, and I'll say it again, the goverment's current position on drugs is like tryin to kill a tree by pickin its leaves. It targets the impoverished and takes 'em from convert slaves to outright slaves, and what progress is made from all those youth locked in prison? How has it benefited the community? What progress is going to be made from it? And do these same streets who we wish to rid of drugs have a local liquor store in their vacinity? Have you ever seen a dog chasin after his own tale?

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Well atleast there are 2 people on here who don't feel the way they are "supposed 2 feel" or the way the government wants us to feel about things like this. Don't you see u people are just fallin in line son! In their line. And they cleverly and maliciously fuck you in th ass on a daily basis. You catz keep callin me ignorant. If you want a picture of ingorance, look in the mirror. Alcohol is much more dangerous than "drugs" (alcohol is a drug) Think about it! People who do hardcore shit like Meth, or heroin, or even crack are stupid. Most of them destroy their lives with that shit. But dont blame the nigga that sold it 2 them. Blame the dumbass shootin diesel in his arm.

office job aint slavery!. getting rushed at a fast food joint is slavery

Alright Erich you're right. The war on drugs will never be won and as long as dumb ass people are buying drugs, drug dealers will continue to sell the stuff.

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Originally Posted by CharlesJones

Alright Erich you're right. The war on drugs will never be won and as long as dumb ass people are buying drugs, drug dealers will continue to sell the stuff.

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Exactly. I'm not sayin it's right, but incarceration is cruel and unusual punishment for it. And they dont get the people that make the real money off of drugs. They get catz like me that just tryin 2 make it. Like in my town I might be targeted by the police, but at the projects, they stand on tha corner every single night slangin crack,heroin, and all that, and they dont target them. Wanna know why? Because that is what they put them there for! Low cost housing, or projects are just another way of sayin a place 2 keep the poor people away from us. They were not built 2 help poor people, they were built to keep them secluded away from the rich white cocksuckers who dont want their kids hangin out with "Niggers" or "White Trash". Now they get to watch as they grow up to sell drugs, kill each other, and other foul shit. It's workin perfectly!

Rich white people shouldn't judge ignorant blacks because they got issues too. Rich whites do drugs so how the fuck can they judge us? White people got fucking issues just like blacks, hispanics, asians and everybody else. That's why i don't understand why white people hate blacks so much. We all bleed the same blood.

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Originally Posted by CharlesJones

Rich white people shouldn't judge ignorant blacks because they got issues too. Rich whites do drugs so how the fuck can they judge us? White people got fucking issues just like blacks, hispanics, asians and everybody else. That's why i don't understand why white people hate blacks so much. We all bleed the same blood.

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Damn straight! Although I wouldnt minimize the numbers of blacks that hate whites and blame them for everything wrong in their lives. (some ol white devils shit)

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Originally Posted by Visions Unseen

its called gentrification and its a fucked up process. The long-term effects of it are damaging to the current residents of the neighborhood.
Nicer houses and apartments will raise the property value of the land the old houses that surround them, in turn raising the tax levels and usually the rent because really the owners of the property want you to move out so that they can sale off the lot to commercial developers for WAAAAY more than what they paid for it in the first place.

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WOW! I didn't know it was like that. Thanks for the info, man.

Wait... the ultimate aim is to make a bad neighborhood a god one. Ain't it? I think they succeed in it. By forcing poor people to move to next project.

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Originally Posted by Slim T

Wait... the ultimate aim is to make a bad neighborhood a god one. Ain't it? I think they succeed in it. By forcing poor people to move to next project.

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exactly, keep on pushin the poor people around while the people with money come in, throw up new houses forcing everyone else out so that more people with money can come in and then they'll feel like they've done something good for the neigborhood. Truly a bunch of bullshit. Do they want to improve the investment value of the house or do they want to improve the life of the people who resided in 'em in the first place?

At best its neighborhood improvement with a twisted sense of priorities.

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WOW! I didn't know it was like that. Thanks for the info, man.

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fo'sho, not a problem homie

It is fucked up.. to me it's kinda like they wanna mix the middle(lower middle) class with the lower class... and just keep the high class HIGHLY secluded.

Yeah, it's like that where I live. I live on a nice street, but just turn on the next one and the houses are all old and battered and shit, then further down it's the apartments where the bad shit goes on a lot.

People usually give me stupid ass comments because my house is big, and to be honest worth a lot of money, but I don't care because my parents are fucking soldiers. They came with nothing and worked and struggled and saved their money for years to get where they're at. Enough respect to them for that.

your topic is called slavery jobs, i consider slavery jobs work that consists of hard labour with low wages. most of the cats that do these fucked up jobs is because they can't get anything else, i was trying to explain how cats land up in that predictament, there is a millions of people who don't have jobs. you can't go to school if you need to eat you must hustle, doing a correspondence cource is a joke, it's so far from reality for street cats it's like going to disney land. for coloured kids the only future is to hustle hard, doors is opening out only a few is going in

South Africa is facing a massive skills shortage and the situation is only getting worse.we currently lack at least half a million skilled and semi-skilled workers.



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Keep the home fires burning

This Tuesday Special Assignment exposes the exploitation of young girls desperate for work and eager to escape the poverty of small Karoo towns.
http://www.sabcnews.com/specialassig...s/060926ii.jpgOnce a week a taxi leaves Beaufort West for Cape Town. Its passengers are rural women who have been recruited as domestic workers. Some are not even 15 years old. They are driven by poverty to seek employment in the city, lured by employment agencies that promise decent wages and good working conditions.
When they arrive in Cape Town, many of these promises turn out to be false. In the back room of a domestic service agency, “madams” come to choose their maids. They pay the agency between R100 and R200 to find them a domestic worker. Many of these up-country girls are taken to homes where they are abused and exploited, with no protection whatsoever. Some are paid only R400 ($51.94) a month yet are expected to work a 15-hour day, seven days a week. They are locked up on the property and allowed no visitors.
http://www.sabcnews.com/specialassig...es/060926i.jpgMany employers prefer rural girls to local city women. This is because they live on the premises and so are available at all times of the day. They like the fact that these girls know no-one in Cape Town and so don’t need days off to visit friends. They also believe that rural women work harder.
Despite legislation to protect the rights of domestic workers, the authorities say they can do little to protect these women. Ignorance of the law makes the situation worse, as most rural women know nothing about minimum wages – they’re prepared to accept the exploitation because the situation back home in the Karoo is so desperate.

Ok i see what your saying. I know from experience about slavery jobs that are hard labor and pay bullshit money because i've had a lot of them through temp agencies. I will never apply for those jobs again. The hard labor jobs that are paying employees a low salary ought to be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of people like that. People say all the time that school is so important to get a good job but everybody can't afford to go to school because school is too expensive. Plus school doesn't guarantee you a good job. If that was the case, there would be a lot of people with good paying jobs because they went to college or a job trade school. My boss at the job i have now wants me to dig a big hole tomorrow so i can put a big sign inside the hole for the apartment building i work at. I wish he would've hired a contractor to do that because i'm not a big guy and i don't wanna hurt my back doing that.

Ramesh that's messed up to hear about those women being exploited like that. People are so evil and cruel. I really feel bad for foreigners because the shit they deal with in their countries daily is worse than what americans deal with everyday. That's why so many foreigners come to america because their countries are so fucked up because of the evil people who are in control of the countries.

there is nothing worse than having a bad back

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Originally Posted by CharlesJones

Ramesh that's messed up to hear about those women being exploited like that. People are so evil and cruel. I really feel bad for foreigners because the shit they deal with in their countries daily is worse than what americans deal with everyday. That's why so many foreigners come to america because their countries are so fucked up because of the evil people who are in control of the countries.

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africa is fucked i honestly don't see this continent coming right

Yeah having a bad back isn't healthy. That's why i'm gonna look for a back brace tonight at Lowe's hardware store for the job i gotta do tomorrow.

"Bottom of the Heap"
This Tuesday Special Assignment broadcasts the moving story of an abandoned community. Wetravel to the settlement of Second Creek in East London where we meet a group of people who live off the pickings of a rubbish dump. These are people who have fallen through the cracks of our society, surviving off what we throw away. As the local government elections loom, we ask, “Where have we failed these people?”

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Every day dogs and people scavenging amongst the filth and the rot, searching for food and anything that can be reused or resold. Men, women and children fill their sacks with bottles, plastic and tins and carry up them to their shacks, which teeter precariously around the edges of the disposal site. Once sorted, these items can be sold for a few rand to recycling plants. It is a grindingly hard existence, yet some people have lived like this for over thirty years…and little has changed.
Second Creek is less than three kilometers from the city centre and is one of the poorest communities in the area. Yet it has been completely overlooked by the municipality. The only service these people have ever received is tapped water. But each time elections come around, politicians come visiting. They promise houses, jobs and better service delivery. However, experience has shown that these promises may simply not be true. While the Premier of the Eastern Cape has launched an uncompromising programme for poverty eradication, is local government able or willing to play its part?

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".... a better life"
This week Special Assignment looks at the plight of thousands of Zimbabweans crossing the border into South Africa. To escape political turmoil and increasing food shortages, many risk the crocodile- infested Limpopo River and razor wire fences to get here.
We investigate persistent reports that more and more pregnant women are coming here illegally in an attempt to secure South African birth certificates for their babies. We follow two pregnant Zimbabwean women as they travel from the Beit Bridge border post to Johannesburg. 26-year-old Anita Luwish is blind and four months pregnant. She left Harare with her two small children after their shack was destroyed during Operation Clean-Up, President Mugabe’s attempt to clear Zimbabwe cities of shack dwellers and informal traders. After living off handouts on the streets of Musina, the border town near Beit Bridge, the two women and their children head for the city of promise, Johannesburg. But weeks after arriving, we find them begging at a robot in the city centre.

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We also travel with 29-year-old Daphne Mashange who is seven months pregnant. She has a six months visitor’s visa and is hoping to give birth to her first born in a Johannesburg hospital. But the streets of central Johannesburg are dark and dangerous, and full of desperate homeless people. Many survive only off the charity of churches.
For many illegal immigrants, Johannesburg is not what it’s made out to be. They are in legal limbo as they cannot get refugee status and so are open to abuse and harassment. The number of refugees in South Africa is growing and they are considered by many South Africans as unwanted guests. This program takes us into the lives of some of them, as they try to survive in an inhospitable and alien city.

THE GREEN DAM… and other stories of the new poor whites



This Tuesday Special Assignment meets some of South Africa’s new poor whites. Disillusioned, isolated and often ill-informed, they are struggling to understand why they lost their privileges and trying to make sense of the political changes that have swept the country.
Koos Mitton never had it easy. As a child, he sometimes had to eat rotten meat and mouldy bread from dust bins. As a poor white under the apartheid government, Koos’s skin colour was supposed to get him benefits like free education, protected jobs and council housing. The system should, in fact, have propelled Koos from poverty to at least middle class comfort.
It never did. Like many others of a new generation of poor whites, Koos could never escape the poverty cycle. And with the demise of the apartheid government and all its support systems, more and more whites are squatting or living in squalor, struggling to adapt to a changing South Africa. According to some estimates, one in four whites now earns less than R1 500 ($194.80) per month and is regarded as poor. Figures show that wealthy white South Africans are getting richer by the day, but that the gap between wealthy whites and poor whites is, in fact, the fastest growing divide in the country

We visit the area traditionally known as “Wessies” or “Pretoria West” in Tshwane. This is where Koos shares a bed with his wife and five-year-old son in a wooden shack. Koos’s mother and her latest lover sleep barely a metre away in the same single- roomed structure. This is also where state controlled industries like ISCOR used to supply jobs to unskilled and semi-skilled whites – but they closed down one by one and the area plummeted. Here, poverty and its consequences are hidden away from the public eye in back yards, garages and the wooden sheds widely referred to as “Wendy’s”.
For many poor whites living here, these shelters are only a few steps away from the Green Dam… the place go to when you’ve lost everything and have no one to turn to

Nonone should judge anyone elses culture unless they feel like they can add on positive enlightment to the situation.

Fuck al yo Dumb ass stop snitchin shit. Do yal think everyone is gangsta like yal huh? A mother was trying to protect her children and they all got killed 4 that!! fuck that shit, real talk, Like diggy said;A snitch is not someone who calls the cops on a drug dealer. A snitch is one involved in criminal activitie, gets caught, and tells on another criminal to get a reduced sentance. NoT some poor woman.

That's so sad to read about that stuff you posted Ramesh. The world is so cruel and evil. I really feel bad for poor and homeless people because they're the ones that have to suffer the most. Check out these lyrics by Bushwick Bill i'm gonna post from the Geto Boys The World Is A Ghetto song. He spoke about how stuff is messed up for poor people overseas and in america. Here's what he said.



500 niggas died in guerrila warfare in a village in Africa but didn't nobody care. They just called up the god damn gravediggas and said come get these muthafucking niggas. Just like they do in the 5th Ward and the South Park and the Bronx and the Watts. You know they got crooked cops working for the system making poor muthafuckas outta victims cause don't nobody give a fuck about the poor. It's double jeopardy if your black or latino. They got they muthafucking drugs in the slums. Got us killing one another over crumbs. Think i'm lying? Well muthafucka i got proof. Name a section in your city where minorities grew and i'm a show you prostitutes, dope and hard times and a murder rate that never declines. And little babies sitting on the porch smelly smelly. Crying cause they ain't got food in their bellies. They call my neighborhood a jungle and me a animal like they do the people of Rawanda. Fools flee here from their country black and they see the same bullshit and head right back. They find out what niggas already knew. The world is a ghetto.

People, the lady was just trying to protect her family and the enrivonment. You people don't realize how bad a nebigorhood how become when drug dealers, hookers, thugs, and crackheads move in and destroy what the older generations built.

She didn't "snitch". She did what was nessacary to protect her family. Jesus Christ! You guys probably don't even know the situation. She was probably a hard working woman that wanted her communtiy to change. Think about it. Where would her kids play and run around? They can't do it in their negiborhood because it's infested with hookers, crackheads, rats, and all kinds of shit. As a result, they killed a person that was just trying to help.

Those mofo's took an innocent life because they want to sell their fucking drugs. The hookers want to sell their bodies. The crackheads want to become better pests than what they already are.

If any of you believe she did something here, you can go to hell and burn, you mofo.

Thanks.

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Fuck al yo Dumb ass stop snitchin shit. Do yal think everyone is gangsta like yal huh? A mother was trying to protect her children and they all got killed 4 that!! fuck that shit, real talk, Like diggy said;A snitch is not someone who calls the cops on a drug dealer. A snitch is one involved in criminal activitie, gets caught, and tells on another criminal to get a reduced sentance. NoT some poor woman.

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LOL Protect her children. From what? LOL She probably got jealous of their money, and decided to rat on em. She put her whole family in danger, and they all got killed. Now I would never justify killing innocent family members of a snitch, but that said they were killed. Was it worth it? No postives come from snitchin only heartache and tragedy! Don't snitch! Do you think those drug dealers sat around and plotted how they were gonna hurt that womans children b4 she ratted? No! Protecting her children LOL

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People, the lady was just trying to protect her family and the enrivonment. You people don't realize how bad a nebigorhood how become when drug dealers, hookers, thugs, and crackheads move in and destroy what the older generations built.

She didn't "snitch". She did what was nessacary to protect her family. Jesus Christ! You guys probably don't even know the situation. She was probably a hard working woman that wanted her communtiy to change. Think about it. Where would her kids play and run around? They can't do it in their negiborhood because it's infested with hookers, crackheads, rats, and all kinds of shit. As a result, they killed a person that was just trying to help.

Those mofo's took an innocent life because they want to sell their fucking drugs. The hookers want to sell their bodies. The crackheads want to become better pests than what they already are.

If any of you believe she did something here, you can go to hell and burn, you mofo.

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You are probably right. She probably did think she was helpin tha community. Instead she got her whole family murdered. On top of that, locking 1 drug dealer or a group of drug dealers will do NOTHING 2 make her community more safe! U see every town and city has drug dealers. When a dealer gets busted, someone takes their place immediately. So why would you snitch? Their is no possible positive outome 2 it. How could you argue that? That said, I hope they kill these child murderin cocksuckers 4 this! No excuse for killin tha rest of tha family.

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Originally Posted by ERICHWV

LOL Protect her children. From what? LOL She probably got jealous of their money, and decided to rat on em.

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Imperial1

Imperial, my point is that the she created the threat from tha drug dealers. I sure aint sayin they deserved 2 die. R.I.P. But they posed no threat to them people until they got ratted on. Right? What is so "dumb ass" about that? Again, dont take this as me defending the murders, cuz I dont.

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Originally Posted by ERICHWV

Imperial, my point is that the she created the threat from tha drug dealers.

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Shut that dumb shit up and put your pledge pin back on.

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Imperial1

Obviously u cant come up with any valid arguement against what I am sayin, or you would present it. Instaed, you just post pics that say dumbass. Very insightful!

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Originally Posted by ERICHWV

Obviously u cant come up with any valid arguement against what I am sayin, or you would present it. Instaed, you just post pics that say dumbass. Very insightful!

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If a dumbass tries to make a valid point, what makes your dumbass think you will get a valid argument to a dumbass point?

Imperial1

So if it isnt worth makin a point, why is it worth takin tha time 2 post stupid pictures?

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Originally Posted by ERICHWV

So if it isnt worth makin a point, why is it worth takin tha time 2 post stupid pictures?

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The same reason why you waste bandwidth trying to make dumb ass points.

Imperial1

Ok, back 2 the point. Are u tellin me that these drug dealers were already gonna murder that whole family before she started singin? I, mean u said that my statement that she created tha danger was "dumb ass" right? C'mon discuss youire point of view. Don't just post pictures that put people down.

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Ok, back 2 the point. Are u tellin me that these drug dealers were already gonna murder that whole family before she started singin?

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What kind of dumbass point were you trying to make by saying the mother could've been jealous of the drug dealer's money?

Imperial1

I was jokin when I said that shit. I didnt specify that, so I cant blame you 4 takin it seriously. Dude said she was tryin 2 protect her fam, and my point is from what? She got her fam killed for christs sake!

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Originally Posted by ERICHWV

I was jokin when I said that shit.

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A joke is supposed to be funny, not corny and stupid.

Imperial1

that's some true words i think that's why people is so religous because there has to be somthing better after this fucked up life