You won’t have economic development in areas that are wracked by violent crime. Young black men (15-34) are just 2% of the population and commit about half of the nation's homicides. A rate an astounding 49 times that of the average American. Most of their victims are other young black men. A major reason no one cares. They are the country's gun violence problem. Saying that truth makes me a racist in today's world.
The roots of the problem are: the lack of respect for education (read up on the disruption in any inner city classroom and the refusal of black administrators to address it by imposing needed discipline) and the casual acceptance of criminal behavior in the black community exemplified by the refusal to cooperate with law enforcement, and the failure of many (most?) black fathers to love and care for their children and especially their boy children. Those who object to this analysis deny black people any agency over their own lives. They are the true racists. Fix those issues and you have a shot at reducing both gun violence and poverty in America.
And the social pathologies of young black men are bleeding into other groups of poor people, as commodity consumption and idleness and family disorder spread throughout the society, encouraged by government policies and cultural shifts.
I agree: the solution is marriage, academic striving, frugality. I also agree that anyone who offers a DIFFERENT solution is perhaps not talking about 'solutions' at all... and is rather trying to formulate narratives, or craft excuses.
It's truly shocking to see how many people on the Left don't seem to believe that black Americans CAN make it under our current political/economic order. Well, I do. Millions have. Also disabled people, and addicts, and immigrants, etc. Every day I sit in rooms with people who built their lives and relationships up from a 450 credit score or a stay in county or a Baker Act. Let's examine what they've done and make those recommendations general for everyone who's struggling to improve their station. This shit ain't that hard. You'd have to be half a moron to over-think it, frankly.
A good post James. Mostly on target.
Our modern society corrupts all it touches leaving behind a poverty of the spirit that empties out both heart and soul.
You won’t have economic development in areas that are wracked by violent crime. Young black men (15-34) are just 2% of the population and commit about half of the nation's homicides. A rate an astounding 49 times that of the average American. Most of their victims are other young black men. A major reason no one cares. They are the country's gun violence problem. Saying that truth makes me a racist in today's world.
The roots of the problem are: the lack of respect for education (read up on the disruption in any inner city classroom and the refusal of black administrators to address it by imposing needed discipline) and the casual acceptance of criminal behavior in the black community exemplified by the refusal to cooperate with law enforcement, and the failure of many (most?) black fathers to love and care for their children and especially their boy children. Those who object to this analysis deny black people any agency over their own lives. They are the true racists. Fix those issues and you have a shot at reducing both gun violence and poverty in America.
And the social pathologies of young black men are bleeding into other groups of poor people, as commodity consumption and idleness and family disorder spread throughout the society, encouraged by government policies and cultural shifts.
I agree: the solution is marriage, academic striving, frugality. I also agree that anyone who offers a DIFFERENT solution is perhaps not talking about 'solutions' at all... and is rather trying to formulate narratives, or craft excuses.
It's truly shocking to see how many people on the Left don't seem to believe that black Americans CAN make it under our current political/economic order. Well, I do. Millions have. Also disabled people, and addicts, and immigrants, etc. Every day I sit in rooms with people who built their lives and relationships up from a 450 credit score or a stay in county or a Baker Act. Let's examine what they've done and make those recommendations general for everyone who's struggling to improve their station. This shit ain't that hard. You'd have to be half a moron to over-think it, frankly.