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This is not about race. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people, directly and indirectly. Hitler was responsible for mass genocide. They were both ‘white’. For many decades, and even now, organized crime has been and is responsible for many deaths - and until the last few decades black gangs haven't been much of a contributory factor. Even now, some of the fiercest organized crime ‘gangs’ in the world are Asian.

The point is that every race and ethnicity is capable of violence, and has proven so. The question is why are blacks currently overrepresented in violent and non-violent crime? The answer is likely complex, but the breakdown in the black family structure, and the political exploitation of the black community has had a ton to do with it.

I truly believe that the black community, just like many other racial and ethnic groups before), would have ascended the socioeconomic ladder and become just another successful group of people in America, if they had been left alone to use their own ingenuity, ambitions, and abilities to achieve. To be sure, a great many have made great contributions and achieved great success, and it must be very painful for them to look at stories such as this one.

We have to recognize that the black community became a focal point and fertile ground for a number of outside and ‘inside’ interests over the past 80 or more years. Communists/socialists from outside of the US exploited the black community as a way to divide our society and stir unrest from within. People like Bill Ayers were and are doing the same thing from inside the US.

Self-serving politicians used race as a ticket to power and fame, and obviously still do. They told and tell young blacks that the system is stacked against them, and that they need special help to make it. They instigated social engineering programs that made it possible, and in fact encouraged single parent families and the breakdown of what was a strong black community tradition of family. Their social engineering resulted in the ‘enslavement’ of successive generations of black families into welfare dependence.

The list goes on, but the point is that this isn't about race. I could care less about skin color or where your parents or grandparents are from. This is about how we've gotten to the point at which children can grow up and be so lacking in value for life, and so devoid of a moral compass that they think it's OK to kill someone because they are ‘bored’, or because they ‘had a bad day’. Clearly, ‘The Great Society’ is not working.

There is a belief within America that, if you maximize the punishment you will minimize the crime. If crime continues, keep Talibanizing the prison system until you reach a point of where everybody wants to behave and peace will reign throughout America.

I don’t think it’s working. From where I can see we are sending convicts, convicted of fairly minor crimes, into an ultra-violent prison system and destroying their ability to function outside the prison system.