For what its worth, the black population in the US isn’t growing at a much different rate than the white population; they can’t even deal with the Latinos that are displacing them in the cities, in the workforce, in the drug trade, etc.
I don’t see the tantrums of Ferguson and Baltimore as demonstrations of black strength but failure and desperation; if they did that damage in white areas I’d view it differently. In my area (and I suspect this is national) the formerly “white” areas/suburbs closest to the urban cores are becoming very Hispanic and Asian, and they bear the brunt of black crime now (see Michael Brown’s theft of cigars in Ferguson as an example). Blacks realize that whites (and their tax dollars) are evacuating, and their areas are deteriorating as a result - hence the unrest.
A couple of years ago there was a news story (and threads here) about the fiscal crisis in cities; current black residents were railing about the amount of money these cities had to pony up for pensions to primarily white retirees. The financial resources the black politicians commandeered when they took political reins of cities turned out to have little cash but a lot of IOUs, and were quickly depleted (with no revenue sources to replace them). They can riot to their hearts’ content, and with each passing day they impact fewer and fewer people “that matter”...
From your post: “For what its worth, the black population in the US isn’t growing at a much different rate than the white population; they can’t even deal with the Latinos that are displacing them in the cities, in the workforce, in the drug trade, etc.”
Blacks nationwide have held at about 12.5% or increased to 13% w mixed race over the last 15 years.
How do you think abortion has affected their population growth over the past 50 years? We know that blacks disproportionately abort their children. If this were not the case, what would their current population be - 25% or 30% of the overall US population?