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(Newark) City Without Fathers (illegitimacy and Crime)
City Journal ^
| 08/09/07
| Steven Malanga
Posted on 08/10/2007 7:29:53 AM PDT by Clemenza
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Newarks problems have little to do with "disinvestment" after the '67 Riots.
BTW: The overwhelming majority of homicides in Newark are black-on-black, although the crime mentioned in the article was a degenerate illegal killing black kids.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:29:58 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
To: Clemenza
There are criminals and victims in Newark. And the politicians are too busy trying to get paid to do anything about it.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:32:44 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Clemenza
It’s just the result of “The Great Society,” courtesy of LBJ.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
To: Clemenza
Crimmigration also has a role.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:34:57 AM PDT
by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)
To: Clemenza
Back in the 1980’s there was a great quote:
If you come to Newark without a gun, we will issue you one.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:36:37 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: Enterprise
And reinforced by the current loony left. I teach publik scewl and I see this every day. I have pregnant teens being raised by young grandparents. They are being raised by young grandparents because these grandparents did not do a good job with their children. Now these people are raising a third generation and starting to raise a fourth generation. We have 30+ year teachers who have seen three generations of students.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:38:05 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Clemenza
only 32 percent of Newark children are being raised by their parents in a two-adult household. I'm surprised it's that many. You would think that between them, a husband and a wife would have better sense and better options than to raise a family in Newark.
When I was a kid (in the Stone Age) I was allowed to travel by myself, most anywhere between Philly and Manhattan. One of the areas I was warned to avoid was Newark, and that was before the commotion.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:43:09 AM PDT
by
Graymatter
( Fort Knox needs an audit.)
To: Clemenza
Another Democrat success story...
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:43:28 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
To: Clemenza
Newarks problems have little to do with "disinvestment" after the '67 Riots. I agree.
But people forget that before Sharpe James there was Kenny Gibson and before Kenny Gibson there was Hugh Addonizio.
Addonizio turned the Newark municipal government into a Mafia patronage factory.
"Disinvestment" may have accelerated after the riots, but it was proceeding apace before then, due to business owners choosing not to be shaken down by the Boiardo crew and their cronies in the NPD.
My mother-in-law lived in Irvington in 1965 and worked in Newark for PSE&G - and she was shot in the leg with a ricocheted .22 round by a wiseguy who decided to intimidate the owner of a local market by firing of rounds into the ceiling of the store.
Newark was falling apart before the riots for a number of reasons - starting right after WWII.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:46:07 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: Clemenza
A report like this should be instructive to two groups of people, though it's likely neither of them will listen to it:
1) the black establishment, which never seems to see any reason except "racism" for the failure of black kids to achieve in school and get someplace in life; and
2) the liberals and libertarian-type conservatives who insist that government policies should never be formulated with marriage and family structure in mind.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:49:45 AM PDT
by
madprof98
("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
To: Clemenza
Everybody acknowledges that family values is the key to creating a stable Newark, but when put into practice our government schools wants education without morality. Paraphrasing what Theodore Roosevelt once said, “if society educates a person with knowledge devoid of morality, then society will end up with an educated menance.”
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:50:50 AM PDT
by
Fee
(An American empire can only be built by leaders with the stomach of Romans.)
To: Clemenza
Its politically incorrect to state the truth.
Feminism has failed children and men and women.
The disintegration of the traditional family leads immediately to the disintegration of society.
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posted on
08/10/2007 7:56:42 AM PDT
by
Pietro
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: Clemenza
"and in particular, growing up without fathers."WHAT is our country going to do about changing this dynamic? More welfare, and social programs are not the answer. Until people particularly from this social class begin to marry again, BEFORE they procreate, these problems will continue, and they will also continue to spread to the more upwardly mobile social classes.
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posted on
08/10/2007 8:04:48 AM PDT
by
TAdams8591
( Guiliani is a Democrat in Republican drag. Mitt Romney for president in 2008! : ))
To: Clemenza
"It isnt that traditional families are breaking up; they arent even getting started. The city has one of the highest out-of-wedlock birthrates in the country, with about 65 percent of its children born to unmarried women. And 70 percent of those births are to women who are already poor, meaning that their kids are born directly into poverty."It has become a way of life passed on from generation to generation, and is as NORMAL to some people as the traditional family was.
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posted on
08/10/2007 8:10:12 AM PDT
by
TAdams8591
( Guiliani is a Democrat in Republican drag. Mitt Romney for president in 2008! : ))
To: Clemenza
I sincerely wish the Newarks of our country well, but they keep making the same mistakes over and over. Decades of wrong values, wrong decisions, wrong politics . . it’s a never-ending circle.
Why they don’t get it is beyond me, but nothing’s going to change.
To: Enterprise
How dare you point out that this is a direct consequence of a “liberal” program! The said they meant well, and some of them actually DID mean well.
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posted on
08/10/2007 8:17:18 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Clemenza
only 32 percent of Newark children are being raised by their parents in a two-adult household. What is this guy, some kind of religious fanatic trying to force his beliefs off onto the rest of us?
/libertarian
To: Enterprise
Not to mention another example of the Atlas Shrugged principal
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posted on
08/10/2007 8:31:31 AM PDT
by
bobjam
To: Pietro
"The disintegration of the traditional family leads immediately to the disintegration of society...."
No doubt about it....One's family is the root by which we grow...it is so painfully simple.....
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posted on
08/10/2007 8:42:11 AM PDT
by
PigRigger
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