This was a really good post. Originally, I just skimmed it & started to erase it; but for whatever reason, I went back and read it, and realized that it was making an important point, without being flashy or hyperbolic. It’s a very good take on a non-transient societal issue that open-minded people are having to deal with.
I appreciate that! I encounter a lot of bad ideas these days (with increasing regularity, it seems). A lot of them are based on these kinds of strange modern orthodoxies, which are barely coherent themselves and often amount to little more than 'nice people believe these sorts of things... therefore I will too (and I will judge harshly any who question them).' This gets messy when we start basing policies or social structures on such ideas.
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 (remember the racist OJ jury?), 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 gun violence in America.
This was a really good post. Originally, I just skimmed it & started to erase it; but for whatever reason, I went back and read it, and realized that it was making an important point, without being flashy or hyperbolic. It’s a very good take on a non-transient societal issue that open-minded people are having to deal with.
I appreciate that! I encounter a lot of bad ideas these days (with increasing regularity, it seems). A lot of them are based on these kinds of strange modern orthodoxies, which are barely coherent themselves and often amount to little more than 'nice people believe these sorts of things... therefore I will too (and I will judge harshly any who question them).' This gets messy when we start basing policies or social structures on such ideas.
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 (remember the racist OJ jury?), 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 gun violence in America.