Posted on 07/11/2016 9:40:55 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Barack Obama and his first attorney general, Eric Holder, called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us "a nation of cowards" because we were unwilling to have a "national conversation" about race. The truth of the matter is there's been more than a half-century of conversations about race. We do not need more. Instead, black people need to have frank conversations among ourselves, no matter how uncomfortable and embarrassing the topics may be.
Among the nation's most dangerous cities are Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Newark, Cleveland and Philadelphia. These once-thriving cities are in steep decline. What these cities have in common is that they have large black populations. Also, they have been run by Democrats for nearly a half-century, with blacks having significant political power. Other characteristics these cities share are poorly performing and unsafe schools, poor-quality city services, and declining populations.
Each year, more than 7,000 blacks are murdered. That's a number greater than white and Hispanic murder victims combined. Blacks of all ages are killed at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. According to the FBI, the police kill about 400 people a year; blacks are roughly one-third of that number. In Chicago alone, so far this year, over 2,000 people have been shot, leaving over 320 dead. It's a similar tale of mayhem in other predominantly black cities.
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Total for 2014 was 444.
Well said, and it would make a fine tagline!
You are correct on both points. I read that three-quarters of blacks are now born out of wedlock and are raised by single moms. Those moms (usually of more than one child) are young, poorly educated and unemployed. The kids have no role model for success. It is a miracle that ANY of those kids grows up to be successful.
You’ve pretty much identified the root cause.
The one NOBODY in the media or black “leadership” will talk about.
We can thank Lyndon Johnson for this evil outcome.
The “Great” Society destroyed the black family structure in the US.
The combination of "secular-rational values" and "self-expression values" results in an effectively-zero birthrate. (So does neutral to "secular-rational" values combined with a recent history of Communism, creating the bubble your chart identifies as "Orthodox.")
The "rationalist," wondering how economically to sustain his "self-expression," fixes on "traditionalist" immigration as an option. It wasn't a bad theory ... might have worked ... but the experiment has been run and the results are not what was hoped. The "Orthodox" bubble, having had its economies nuked by Communism, had little to offer immigrants until those countries became the EU gateway to Northwestern Europe's welfare paradises.
Per the Post:
The landscape of police shootings is surprisingly thinly explored. The FBI is charged with keeping statistics on such shootings, but a Post analysis of FBI data showed that fewer than half of the nation’s 18,000 police departments report their incidents to the agency.
The Post documented well more than twice as many fatal shootings this year as the average annual tally reported by the FBI over the past decade. The FBI and the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics now acknowledge that their data collection has been deeply flawed. FBI Director James B. Comey called his agency’s database “unacceptable.” Both agencies have launched efforts to create new systems for documenting fatalities.
Dr. Williams literally just replied to my email and says this was his source:
Cool. I got an email from Mike Adams once, and one of our NC guys got a real letter and an autographed book from Thomas Sowell. (The letter demolished our friend’s argument about some point regarding the housing market crash ;-).
True. Sadly, most attempts at discussion are shouted down as racism.
The reality is that the truest victims of all this anti-Police, anti-White, agitation, are the Negro residents of urban America. Millions live in a socially chaotic environment--live in fear--not because the Police are too aggressive; rather because the Police have been systematically persuaded not to do as much as they otherwise would to curb flagrant--and obvious--criminal activity.
The connivance of sociopathic politicians, who seek personal gain at the expense of those they pretend to care about, is one of the most despicable phenomena of the past 70 years. No one with forked tongue patrons like the Clintons & Obamas can afford anything the established bureaucracy has to offer.
And it was all part of a plan.
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One
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The wealthy elite and political leftists hate the nation-state, especially conservative ones like the US has historically been, so they strive to replace the native voters with poorly-educated, low IQ, and culturally-misaligned foreigners who will end up on the .gov dole. These types are easily manipulated into voting for more government and for trashing the constitution.
Walter had better have a squeaky clean past or his message of responsibility will earn the same reward that Cosby is reaping.
Both Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are towering figures on our American intellectual landscape.
IIRC, the FBI statistics refer to “arrest-related-deaths” and are the only official way of estimating deaths by police action. I don’t know where the ThinkProgress number come from, since I haven’t read it in detail.
What are we on now, 60 years of spitting into the wind? Waste of time.
The web site does not give any explanation other than: "The killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty."
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