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The practical matter of 12-15% of the population creating a nationwide civil war is ludicrous. The largest concentrations are in areas of free and easy entitlements and congregations run by black city/urban administrations.

They essentially fight their own power structure and have to deal with them irrationally, and all it takes is several days/weeks of no re-supply and their whole movement collapses because once they move outside those protected enclaves, the meet the populace that is ready for them - armed to the teeth. And they won’t be in a friendly mood.

The numbers aren’t there and if this black government can’t put them under control, there might likely be a conflagration, but it won’t be the one they expect.

there might likely be a conflagration

A wiser FReeper than I once commented, "When Blacks riot, they burn down their own neighborhoods. When Whites riot, they burn down continents."

Things are starting to get frisky. Hopefully, the powers that be have enough sense to de-escalate. We'll know in a week or so.

The fact is that the black and white populations of this country may be mutually incompatible. Until 1940 or so, whites had the upper hand, with white mobs tearing apart black areas with impunity, as in Chicago in 1919 or Tulsa in 1922. Lynching was a frequent event, with law enforcement turning their backs on the mob actions. The police and courts came down hard on black criminals, and there was no pretense of equal treatment. This was as true outside the South as in the old Confederacy, although Northern and Western states largely did not have Jim Crow laws.

After the rise of the civil rights movement, blacks developed political power greater than even what they had under Reconstruction. The main enemy of the black thugs was the white working class, who lived close to the black ghettoes. A combination of upward mobility, fear of black street crime, reaction to forced busing, assimilation of the children of European immigrants, and deindustrialization largely emptied the inner cities of the white working class. Most cities became black or other minority dominated, with small white areas of affluence, usually well guarded, and pockets of white beatniks/hippies/hipsters/SJWs, whose shame at their European heritage made them feel guilty even when robbed, beaten, or raped by black thugs.

I was doing some genealogical research yesterday, and read a news item from Belfast, Northern Ireland, dated July 14, 1940, describing Catholic rioting against Protestant marchers celebrating their victory against the Catholics in 1690. Little has changed there in 2016. The centuries old sectarian violence is between two groups that are virtually indistinguishable physically, and can only be sorted out by religion and maybe surname.

Some problems may be intractable, and the racial differences between whites and blacks may be one of them.