Posted on 03/30/2018 10:16:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Today, the area is still largely divided by race, not by law but through decades of white flight. New Castle County, which includes Wilmington and its suburbs (many of which are unincorporated communities), is nearly two-thirds white; the city of Wilmington, on the other hand, was 58 percent black as of the 2010 census. The difference in how children in both of these populations grow up is drastic: in New Castle County, the child poverty rate as of 2016 was 15 percent; in Wilmington, it was more than double that, at 35 percent. A 2017 report by a state community advisory council said that of the city’s nearly 20,000 children, 86 percent were receiving some form of public assistance.
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Race, Crime, Segregation, Poverty, etc.
I want to focus on just one aspect:
“Poverty is the center of crime.” — University of Delaware professor Yasser Payne
To me, one reason we can never solve the problems of crime and poverty in minority communities is because liberal Democrats have it backwards.
For decades, liberal Democrats have told us, Poverty Causes Crime
There is no discussion or debate allowed. Poverty Causes Crime is stated as fact, you are not allowed to question the proposition, and every social policy and program must be designed to end poverty in order to end crime.
But as I said, liberal Democrats have it backwards. Poverty doesn't cause crime. * Crime Leads to Poverty *.
The mechanism is clear to see.
Once a community loses the battle against crime, businesses close and people with the means and money leave.
What's left behind is the poor and the helpless who are then the only targets left for criminals.
While minority communities and community organizers complain about crime they also complain law enforcement is targeting minority communities.
The result is law enforcement can't do their job effectively.
Occasionally an innocent (or not so innocent) minority member is killed by the police and the response from the community and community organizers is always the same. 'Racist cops are targeting minorities'.
‘Cops are racists. Cops pull back. Crime increases. Another minority member killed by cops. ‘The police don’t care about minority communites’. More people leave. The poorest people who can’t leave are left in poverty and the victims of criminals.
On and on. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
* Until crime is seen as the cause of poverty both crime and poverty will proliferate in minority communities *.
If blacks make up 58% of the population there, would that not mean that whites are the minority? They should start looking into all of the benefits of minority status...
It’s whitey’s fault!
Your white-privilege is causing this travesty!
I lived in this area 1970-77.
North of Wilmington has always been predominantly white and Wilmington has always been dangerous.
We just didn’t go downtown.
Children are the leading cause of poverty.
While poverty can never be eliminated entirely, it can be greatly curtailed if poor persons could not have children.
“Wilmigton-a place to be some body”.
Another bullet point to add to your summation, crime often results in a would-be bread winner being incarcerated or earning far less than the norm once released.
I think I read this very same article in 1965.
>>>“Poverty is the center of crime.” — University of Delaware professor Yasser Payne<<<
I remember my Parent’s telling me about all the violent Crime that was committed during the Great Depression. /s
I’m 71. Father was blue collar. Mother skipped when I was about 10 months old and I never knew her. Raised in a working class Catholic boarding school more as an orphan than someone with a father. Had nothing when I graduated HS except a determination to make a go of it. My whole life I’ve heard nothing from blacks except whining about how oppressed they are, but nobody ever gave me anything like what the government doles out to them. So I’m at a point where I do not care a whit about their complaints.
Good point. The 1920s saw high murder rates in the US, followed by a drop in the 1930s. This throws cold water on the premise that poverty => crime.
No riots yet for the number of blacks killing blacks even when black lives matter.
Delaware is one of the most liberal and democratic states in the country now. And yet they have no answer for the problem of black crime. I think they just need to devote their entire state budget to poor families and that will surely solve the problem!
You figured it out.
Where that sign is are crackhouses to greet visitors...
Let’s cut to the chase. Minority areas have the most crime, which drives out businesses and whites. Minorities follow whites to the surrounding areas, rinse, repeat. Until blacks stop being violent, this will be the pattern. We are not allowed to say this, so the excuses continue. Young black males are a small percentage of the population, but commit an enormous amount of violent crime.
My point is because of liberal Democrat social theories minority communities are stuck in an endless loop.
Until minority communities admit, take responsibility, take action, and address crime and get it under control, no amount of money invested in minority communities will change things.
No business will invest in a community with high rates of crime. (Hence no grocery stores and communities with 'food deserts). Few businesses. Few jobs. Rampant poverty.
Residents and elected officials in Baltimore begged CVS to open a store and they did.
It didn't survive a riot.
I understand they were convinced to reopen and they may be convinced to open after the next riot.
But past is prologue and if crime isn't brought under control, how many other businesses will be willing to take the chance?
The key to stabilizing minority communities is to 'get tough on crime'; something minority communities are willing to admit or willing to do.
Unfortunately because of backward liberal Democrat social theories, they will keep putting the cart before the horse.
If you like, you can change my statement to "Immorality is the cause of poverty".
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