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Posted on 03/06/2026 5:50:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
In the movie Tombstone, after the famous shootout at the OK Corral, bad-guy Johnny Ringo went looking for Wyatt Earp. Ringo was going to kill him. Instead, Val Kilmer, playing the part of Doc Holliday and friend of Wyatt, met Ringo and delivered the movie’s most famous line: “I’m your huckleberry.” The phrase “I’m you huckleberry” was 19th-century slang for “I’m the guy you’re looking for,” “I’m your man,” or “Bring it on.” It was a macho, braggadocious expression used when confronting an adversary.
Macon, Georgia has lots of huckleberries. That’s unfortunate, because when two huckleberries meet, bad things usually happen. That’s exactly what occurred last week in the hoods of Macon. Over several days’ time, there were eight, maybe nine, shootings that left five dead and another nine injured.
The shootouts in and around Macon’s OK Corral (the Unionville neighborhood) began Saturday, Feb 21, at 12:30 A.M. (one man shot). Then Shaviz Adams was shot and killed at 6:58 P.M., and at 7:24 P.M., another man was shot. The day ended with three people shot at 11:59 P.M.; one victim was only seven years old.
Sunday picked up where Saturday left off. At 1:29 A.M., a seventeen-year-old male was shot and injured. Then the serious huckleberries came out at 3:35 A.M., on Moseley Ave, and three men were blasted into eternity. That was followed by a 6:30 A.M. shooting that left two more wounded. The weekend’s final shooting victim was a 55-year-old woman, shot at 2:37 P.M.
However, the huckleberries weren’t finished. On Wednesday, in south Macon, a 45-year-old man was shot and killed. If you’re counting, that’s five dead and nine wounded in nine separate shootings, all in a city of 155,000.
Fortunately, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) does good work apprehending the perps.
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I’m sure you’re right.
Good post.
You are on the right track.
That is Dr. Sowell's point, that it is culture, not race as the culprit. But what is tragic and weirdly amusing is that Americans who go to Africa are startled to realize they are not treated as special, treated as equal, or even treated well.
There was a book Out of America where a black reporter with romantic images of what Africa was like was reporting on the Rwanda Massacres involving the Tutsis and Hutus, thinking he would be treated with deference being a black American, only to realize that Rwandans were thinking he was a Hutu because of his facial bone structure and different shade of pigmentation, and that he was in great danger because of his "appearance" to the Rwandans.
The reporter (Keith B. Richburg) ever after that experience, valued his status as an American, not a black man, probably not unlike Muhammed Ali who famously said: “Thank God My Granddaddy Got on that Boat!" after his first look at what Africa was really like.
I remember the first color TV I ever seen. The colors were somewhat smeary, not sharp and precise.
I believe that the greatest danger to the black community, advancement, and well being of blacks in general, is what is regarded as “Toxic Black Culture”, which encompasses ghetto culture and Black Liberation Theology.
This amalgam of negative traits I refer to as “black culture” is divisive, racist, insidious, and corrosive. It is misogynist and violent in all aspects. It ridicules and rejects education and self-improvement.
This is an important distinction: I do not in any way believe blacks are any more dangerous than whites UNLESS they are immersed in “Toxic Black Culture”. If they are, they are every bit as dangerous as those statistics on crime and violence indicate.
I do not in any way believe all blacks buy into this “Toxic Black Culture”, so I do not refer globally to all American blacks as devotees of “Toxic Black Culture”. But the black community at large which contains both good and bad elements is maligned by the bad elements, in much the same way that the Islamic community suffers in respect, with a key difference: Blacks are born as they are and that is a racial characteristic not under their control, while being muslim is a choice.
As a consequence of that distinction, I would never be able to deny a black person the right, by default, to be treated as an individual worthy of individual assessment apart from any group, entity, or prism of race or color. I cannot say the same for devotees of Islam, as it is a conscious choice, and I must view them through that prism of their beliefs which at the core run counter to my own.
Interesting philosophical discussion—and hilariously irrelevant to life in the real world on the street.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk ... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Jesse Jackson
Thanks FRiend!
Not so sure about the black culture being divisive, racist, insidious, and corrosive some do have their own way of how they see and act in life rap music and the way they do or say things.
Not a race issue some people are different form their own.
True enough. When someone is sticking a knife in your throat on a metro bus, nobody cares about the root causes.
That said, it is a discussion on the forum of potential root causes here. In summary, it isn't race, it is culture.
I would tell him I see his background as a plus. Much more beneficial than a poor black child raised in the hood.
His doctorate degree is a testimony to how much better he had it back then than black kids in the good.
I think it is both race and culture—as I discussed.
Our genetic makeup has all kinds of effects on us.
The example I like to use is dangerous dog breeds.
It is absolutely true that the “culture” the dog is raised in can stop them from bad behavior almost all the time.
However under stress the dog still may “crack” and get violent if that is in their genetic makeup.
Pals of mine who used to go train the Saudi military called them the “Double Nickles” because they claimed that the Saudi mean IQ was 55. (I find that to be shockingly low to the point of unbelievable! An IQ that low you’re basically a bipedal asparagus!) One of the said even the officers were equally intellectually bad! All my pals said what do you expect from 1000s of years of inbreeding. My only experience with that was when I was overseas working with some Pakis - a patience tasking experience. One of them had just got married and was “bragging” that his uncle had saved a bride for him. He showed us a picture and it was clear from the pic as we say back in the hills -”She just ain’t right!”. 1000s of years of inbreeding in a nutshell.
The problem is that crime becomes acceptable and expected. When you get mugged in a city, you get the blame for being in the wrong place. They have no interest in stopping crime like that. It’s why people abandon cities after a while, especially as they get older.
When we did a survey for where to put a Habitat for Humanity development in the city where I lived, they surveyed the city leaders and the potential recipients. The #1 priority for the city leaders was access to city transit. The #1 priority for recipients was a safe neighborhood. IOW not near a ghetto. Transit was at the bottom of the their list.
“Transit was at the bottom of the their list.”
Transit should be near the top of everyone’s list.
You do not want to live anywhere near mass transit if you want to minimize crime!
Lol.
In the absence of fathers, kids latch onto faux father figures - which in the hood usually means the local gang leader.
Combine that with innately low average intelligence, drug use, and poor impulse control, and of course our inner cities have reverted to concrete jungles.
They are taught to have no impulse control. In all the report of violent black boys/man there is often a violent black female supporting the violence. So stop saying it is because of the lack of father present. The entire black culture is the problem.
like myself they were raised without a father but unlike myself they cannot see any life outside the hood. the hood is a nasty place to be raised in.
One of the smartest and best people whom I have known was James Scruggs, black and born in the old cotton plantation region of Alabama. Jim had bachelor and master degrees in chemistry, as well as degrees in urban administration and education. He was also thoroughly honest and reasonable by nature. As he saw it, his success was due to a good primary and high school education in what was at the time a segregated school system in Wilmington, North Carolina.
I always thought the answer was pretty simple. The first illegitimate child could be a mistake, but after that it really isn’t, so limit the payments to one child. A second might get a 50% benefit if the mother opts for sterilization. I know this seems harsh, but forcing working people to pay for other people’s children isn’t right. Additional payments from charities could soften things a bit, but the charities would be ineligible for any kind of government participation. Subsidizing poor and irresponsible behavior is just stupid.
I second this. I have been to Nepal twice. Never once felt even shady. I was in every corner in Kathmandu, I even noticed we have more homeless then them. I only saw a few homeless for the 3 weeks I was there.
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