[GOPJ]

The black community needs to fix black inner city culture.

[Uncle Sham]

"The black community needs to fix black inner city culture."

Actually, this is sort of what I am proposing. Eliminating the minimum wage gives them an opportunity to begin the process of crawling out of the hole they, and their progressive friends have put them in. Just create a place where the power of private enterprise can work it's magic. Yes, government red tape, regulations, etc have a role here as well but the inner cities themselves will need to make themselves attractive enough for investors to locate there. Put the cities in competition with each other and things will start to change. The beauty of it is that it won't cost money to do it, just a law making the minimum wage disappear. Once this works in one place, others will follow. It also will remove the political capital of the minimum wage argument, another plus.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The black community needs to fix black inner city culture.

. . . it’s not as if you or I could do it.

Frankly, the problem in the inner cities - and the problem in third world countries - is too much socialism.

Socialism is naive cynicism - cynicism towards society, and concomitant naiveté towards its opposite, which (as Thomas Paine elucidates) is government.

Adam Smith explains why naiveté is so commonplace:

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. — Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

So the great problem is to lead understandably naive people, who understandably don’t get the reality of socialism, to reject it. You get blacks to open their minds to the reality that their “Forty acres and a mule” - their great opportunity for advancement - is, and always was, education. Not equality and “integration” in the sense that black and white children both go to schools dominated, as George Gilder once put it, by “fatherless boys bearing knives." Equality in the sense that blacks, and whites, take ownership of their own children’s educational experience.

So the sovereign remedy for the Democrat political stranglehold in the inner cities is breaking the Democrat/government monopoly on education. Education is the singular issue on which inner city blacks have every reason to be simpatico with Republicans.

[Secret Agent Man]

They have to because they won’t listen to anyone else about fixing their problems.

Problem is honestly they do not know how to do so correctly.