Posted on 07/29/2020 3:36:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd's death -- rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks.
The pretense is that police conduct stands as the root of black problems. According to the NAACP, from 1882-1968, there were 3,446 black people lynched at the hands of whites. Today, being murdered by whites or policemen should be the least of black worries. In recent times, there is an average of 9,252 black-on-black murders every year. Over the past 35 years, that translates into nearly 324,000 blacks murdered at the hands of other blacks. Only a tiny percentage of blacks are killed by police. For example, in Chicago this year, there were 414 homicides, with a total of 2,078 people shot. So far in 2020, three people have been killed by police and four were shot. Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald reports that "a police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer." Crime is a major problem for many black communities, but how much of it can be attributed to causes such as institutional racism, systemic racism, and white privilege?
The most devastating problem is the very weak black family structure. Less than a third of black children live in two-parent households and illegitimacy stands at 75%. The "legacy of slavery" is often blamed. Such an explanation turns out to be sheer nonsense when one examines black history. Even during slavery, where marriage was forbidden, most black children lived in biological two-parent families. Professor Herbert G. Gutman's research in "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925" found that in three-fourths of 19th-century slave families, all the children had the same mother and father. In New York City, in 1925, 85% of black households were two-parent. In fact, "Five in six children under the age of six lived with both parents." During slavery and as late as 1920, a black teenage girl raising a child without a man present was a rarity.
An 1880 study of family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of all black families were nuclear families. There were only slight differences in family structure between racial groups. The percentages of nuclear families were: black (75.2%), Irish (82.2%), German (84.5%) and native white Americans (73.1%). Only one-quarter of black families were female-headed. Female-headed families among Irish, German and native white Americans averaged 11%. According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, only 11% of black children and 3% of white children were born to unwed mothers. As Thomas Sowell reported: "Going back a hundred years, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery, we find that census data of that era showed that a slightly higher percentage of black adults had married than white adults. This fact remained true in every census from 1890 to 1940."
The absence of a father in the home predisposes children, especially boys, to academic failure, criminal behavior, and economic hardship, not to mention an intergenerational repeating of handicaps. If today's weak family structure is a legacy of slavery, then the people who make such a claim must tell us how it has managed to skip nearly five generations to have an effect.
There are problems such as grossly poor education, economic stagnation, and poverty that impact the black community heavily. I would like someone to explain how tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson and Confederate generals help the black cause. Destruction of symbols of American history might help relieve the frustrations of all those white college students and their professors frustrated by the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. Problems that black people face give white leftists cover for their anti-American agenda.
No. They blame their failures on Whitey and that allows them to keep failing without accepting responsibility for the failures.
Culture, attitude and no self-responsibility are the problems. But blaming rasis crackas is a whole lot easier and profitable.
Democrats have been the bane of blacks’ existence since its inception, and the root — and cause — of all of its misery from start to present.
Yes, that paragon of justice led a pogrom to kill Jews.
The fact that Al Sharpton is held up as a civil rights leader tells me the black civil rights movement is bogus.
Unfortunately that is true.
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It is surprising to me that someone can actually talk about cultural problems in black families.
I was a school teacher in East Flatbush at the time (interestingly enough, I taught at Tilden High School - the school Sharpton attended as an up and coming agitator - that’s how he was remembered by his teachers) and coming in from NJ, I would have to drive through Crown Heights on my way into and out of work. Fortunately for me, the Crown Heights riots happened during the summer and I didn’t need to pass through there.
Indeed however no more than a career criminal and druggie being made into the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Are blacks responsible for black problems?
Ditto on the assumptions made by W. Williams re: Floyd who was the author of his own demise in multiple ways that have been verified by autopsy. I regularly read Dr. Williams & find this blanket, unsupported statement to be outside his usual style.
You are dead on correct. WHY is GS not considered a terrorist just like Trotsky and any others and now I must include Gates et al.
I think the government has a very good idea where the money and other resources are coming from to encourage social destruction. GS is not the only one. The US has many communists now who are actively encouraging insurrection and are big influences on young and ignorant people.
What the author described in the article is normal black behavior. Just look at how they behave in any other country outside US
Racism is an over played card by the democrats and media they never play with a full deck.
If it’s true that American blacks are so anti-Semitic, why is that?
I, for one, defend the police treatment of George Floyd.
Why are you asking me? I’m not an American black.
No
They joined the Free S#it Army
I guess I should’ve put “all” in the “To:” section of my post. Sorry.
here’s my take on it
Racism definitely is one of the root causes of today’s African-American problems.
Note I said “African-American” - as in not recent immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean - they have a different culture and different problems.
The root cause of today’s African-American problems in my opinion are:
1. Culture - a culture that glorifies distinction from “whites” and incorrectly assumes education, erudition, learning etc as “acting white”
2. Single-mother families -> only 13% of blacks live in two-parent households. This instantly puts them at a disadvantage.
3. Poverty - cause by #1 and #2
4. Lower expectations - caused by #1 and #2
5. Black on black hate and crime - caused by 1,2,3 and 4
6. Causal racism - caused partially by all of the above and secondarily by non-blacks reaction to blacks acting out as above leading to prejudice (even if you are without prejudice, after some incidents you get wary at the very least) AND real racist idiots.
7. Legacy racism - due to the past, some people may look down on African-Americans and it gets worse if their initial prejudices get “justified” by the above points.
to solve the “black” problem is to stop calling it a “black problem” but a societal problem - blacks are not a separate “other” but just as American as anyone else
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