Posted on 04/06/2023 7:24:55 AM PDT by Starman417
America has a problem: a subculture of black crime. We see it every day on YouTube or Twitter or your local newscast. Swarms of black teens emptying shelves of drugstores and high end retail shops and jewelry stores. More ominously however are the videos of blacks viscously brutalizing their fellow citizens at gas stations in restaurants or on the street. Every race has criminals, but when 6% of the population, black males, are responsible for over 50% of the murders and violent crimes one has to ask why, and the answer isn’t straightforward.
I’ve just finished the fascinating “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell. He talks about the differences between the evolution of societies around the world. The primary take away is the fact that in the last 500 years the Europeans have far surpassed the rest of the planet while Africans have lagged farthest behind. Why? Because whites are genetically superior and blacks genetically inferior? Nope. Mostly because of water and geography.
Europe was graced with a large number of easily navigable rivers, numerous deep water harbors and at the same time almost every spot on the continent was within 500 miles of the sea. That water allowed most Europeans to economically trade with other Europeans and other civilizations around the world. That ability to easily trade foods, manufactured goods, people and most of all, ideas among one another and beyond allowed Europeans to harness inventions such as gunpowder from China and numbers from India to craft a civilization that far surpassed anything found anywhere else in the world. The inventiveness, efficiencies, freedoms and prosperity they developed allowed them to dominate the world for centuries.
Africa on the other hand had few deep water harbors and few functionally navigable rivers. At the same time the continent’s rugged topography made the exchange of goods and people and ideas over large areas difficult at best and almost impossible at worst. As a result of those travel and transportation roadblocks, most of the civilizations in sub Saharan Africa remained relatively insular and isolated and thus didn’t benefit from the exchanges of ideas and goods with one another that would have allowed them to coalesce into powerful, advanced societies as the Europeans did. Demonstrating that this has nothing to do with race, Sowell points out that similar geographic hurdles impeded the development of robust trading mechanisms in a number of places in Europe, including the Scottish highlands, Russia and much of the Balkans, with a similar retardation of cultural development.
Sowell's lesson clear, America’s issue is not race, it’s culture. The subculture of black crime has to do primarily with victimhood and it shows itself most acutely in violence and a lack of respect for people and property.
What Sowell calls “Cultural capital” must be developed. It involves the ability and willingness to work to achieve desired goals. He contrasts the success of the Germans and Japanese after WWII with that of many of the newly independent states in Africa in the second half of the 20th century. All received massive amounts of money from outside, but the outcomes were far from similar. While Germany and Japan became economic juggernauts, most newly independent African nations became economic basketcases where poverty and corruption reigned while freedom and security were almost nonexistent. He points out that while it was engineers and business leaders who took the lead in Germany and Japan after the war, in Africa it was usually members of the western educated intelligentsia, steeped in “social sciences” and largely lacking in knowledge or experience in demonstrably productive endeavors who took the lead.
Back here in the United States, the same leftist intelligentsia (read Democrats…) have led much of black America into similarly dire straits. Democrats have convinced a significant portion of black Americans that they are victims of systemic racism that cannot be overcome.
The catalyst was of course slavery. While slavery did exist, as did its progeny, Jim Crow, the reality is the problems that bedevil many black Americans today have little to do with either. Slavery has been gone for 170 years and Jim Crow for more than half a century. Since then the country has seen government mandated integration of schools, decades of affirmative action and government welfare programs, and perhaps most harmfully, programs that made it economically viable for women to have children without the father present, resulting in 70% of black babies being born out of wedlock and left to be raised by single mothers.
But America is systemically racist. Despite the fact that between 1947 & 2021 the median individual income for blacks rose 458% while for whites it rose only 297%. But we’re told racism is America’s biggest threat despite the fact that “hate crimes” are so few that there seems to be a cottage industry associated with fakes. Blacks, we’re told, can’t succeed in America despite the fact that the $35,000 median household income of the average black American family is higher than the median household income of every other country on the planet except for Luxemburg, Norway, Canada and Switzerland.
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Democrat and Republican politicians operate with different priorities.
Democrats want power and will do anything to get and keep it, even if it’s bad for everyone but them. Next is personal wealth which comes with power. They have no concern for what is good for the country or it’s citizens.
Republicans want personal wealth, but most have some limits as to how far they’ll go to obtain that wealth. Once they get what they want, some actually have concern for the country, because they live in that country. In this way, they’re brighter then Dems, but not nearly as cunning.
Wrong, its because the black culture is inferior, and it breeds/festers in urban settings. I could go on and on how it is fueled, but I'll just leave it at that.
Take NYC under guys like DA Alvin Bragg. He refuses to enforce the law when crimes are committed by blacks because he sees the City's black criminals as mere victims of guys like Donald Trump (and you and me).
Nothing we don't already know...but there it is.
Exactly.
Add to that the stubborn survival of Nazi era racism among a small portion of the white population and the problem becomes intractable. Slavery and Jim Crow are long gone, but unfortunately there is a lingering appeal of "master race" ideology among ignorant Americans.
It’s actually worse than the 6%/50% statistics suggest, because the young black males responsible for most of that crime are concentrated in a few cities, so it’s probably more like 2%/40%. The execution of these offenders, besides seriously reducing crime, would also reduce the out-of-wedlock birth problem.
“Add to that the stubborn survival of Nazi era racism...”
This is mainly a reaction to constant demonization of white people in our society for the last 30 years or so. If the government, schools, media, Hollywood, etc, would stop doing that, then the racists wouldn’t find it so easy to recruit disgruntled white people.
Blax smell fear in whites. Blax know they can intimidate whites simply with the word “racist!” Until whites ignore that threat, we’ll continue to treat blax like retarded adult children (who are never accountable for their actions).
Black culture is diverse.
Make blacks have a very good culture. Others have a very bad culture.
The term ‘rotten apples’ comes to mind.
A big problem is the breakup of black family life and the lack of fathers physically present to keep their young boys in line. The welfare system is largely responsible for destabilizing black family life.
The welfare system needs reforms, such as assuming for payout purposes that there is a second adult with a $30,000/year income when there is not one officially declared and physically present (with say 24 months of exceptions so mothers don’t have to pair up or stay with a bad man).
Another problem is cultural poisoning, such as abusive song lyrics (which should not be given copyright protection).
Most of the blacks you meet in real life are good people.
Most of the blacks in media have undesirable characteristics.
Too many of them. Not enough jail space. Find a place where they are out of sight, out of mind. More room in the jails.
I’d offer them farmland in Siberia. The Chicoms would never think of invading.
Make blacks have a very good culture. Others have a very bad culture.
Chris Rock addressed this....
Language Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
There is also the problem that leftist judges have made big cities impossible to govern well. This has a very strong negative impact on blacks.
They are making big cities impossible to govern on purpose.
Create chaos and crisis. Then the feds will come in to restore order. Their form of order.
“Not enough jail space.”
It is possible to have penalty time rooms where offenders could have to stay for say 100 hours total within 30 days for say a shoplifting incident, or spend eight hours in jail for every hour they don’t, with hours spent in the 168 hours after arrest counting double, hours spent in the second week counting 150 percent, etc.
This system would cut costs by removing the need for most trials, public defenders and jail medical care. It would also allow offenders to retain their legitimate jobs.
very good. I like a man that thinks.
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Brian-Saturday night is when they get in trouble. The jails are busy. Can’t serve then.
“Mostly because of water and geography”
While I do agree with Sowell that Africa has been stunted because of its geography hundreds of years ago it does not explain why it is so backward today with modern technology. Even after being exposed to the wheel Africans didn’t use it. After years of colonialism the Africans were left with modern technology all ready to go. They destroyed it. In a few short years after the ending of apartheid South Africa reverted back to its African roots of misery and poverty. The European settlers turned parts of Africa in to fertile farms and ranches that fed the continent. The Africans destroyed it all and are starving. Africa is Africa, because of Africans.
I always wondered if the geography of Europe gave rise to a certain trade advantage.
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