Posted on 06/24/2021 4:08:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Vice President Kamala Harris just returned from Guatemala where she discussed the "root cause" of the post-election "surge" of "migrants" to our southern border. Harris said, "People leave home ... because they don't have opportunities there to fulfill their basic needs like feeding their children or keeping a roof over their head, or they're fleeing some kind of harm."
But the USA also faces a surge in crime, including homicide, in many American cities. Why aren't we discussing this root cause? It cannot be because, as Harris says about migrants, people "don't have opportunities there to fill their basic needs." After all, these migrants come precisely because they see opportunity here that they do not see in their home countries.
But about Los Angeles, the local NBC affiliate recently reported: "One hundred forty-one people have been murdered so far in 2021, a 22% increase over the same period in 2020. Six hundred people have been struck by gunfire in shootings in 2021, a 59% increase over this time last year."
About Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times recently reported: "Children in Chicago are dying from gun violence at a rate three times higher than last year. ...
"Ten children aged 15 or younger have been shot dead so far this year, up from the three children fatally shot during the same time period in 2020. ... And that's more than the number killed in all of 2019, the data shows."
The city of Chicago often leads the nation in the total number of homicides, but the annual homicide rate (murders per 100,000 residents) in a dozen or so big American cities is often higher than that of Chicago -- some of them much higher. In 2018, the Pew Research Center wrote: "The cities that perennially have the most murders per capita have homicide rates that are much higher than the nationwide average. In St. Louis and Baltimore, for instance, murder rates in 2017 were more than 10 times the U.S. average of 5.3 homicides per 100,000 people."
What about the race of the victims? The New York Post writes: "Victims of ... homicides are disproportionately African American. At least 8,600 Black lives were lost to homicide in 2020, an increase of more than 1,000 compared to 2019 (7,484). Violent crime is concentrated in primarily low-income, marginalized Black communities where the police are underresourced and Democratic leadership has abysmally failed. In Chicago, 80 percent of gun-violence victims in 2020 were Black. According to the latest data in New York City, 71?percent of shooting victims are Black -- even though Black people constitute just 26 percent of the city's population. The tragic reality is one Black life was killed less than every hour in America last year."
Is police brutality and/or "systemic racism" to blame? About the racism-is-the-cause argument, the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald points out: "Anti-cop activists and many academics claim that racial crime disparities are simply a product of racist police deployment. Cops are oversaturated in African-American neighborhoods, the activists argue (ignoring the pleas for help from community residents). Once there, officers discover the same crimes that go undetected in white communities.
"But the bodies don't lie. Blacks between the ages of ten and 43 die of homicide at 13 times the rate of whites, according to the CDC, thanks to comparably high rates of violence."
Unless one is prepared to argue that Blacks are simply genetically more inclined to commit homicide, where is the discussion about "root causes"? When there is a horrific urban shooting, Democrats are quick to call for more gun control legislation. Democrats, when there is an alleged case of police abuse against a Black suspect, demand police reform, with some elected officials even calling for a defunding of the police. Democrats, when it comes to disparities in homeownership or net worth, readily talk about the "legacy of slavery and Jim Crow," while failing to address, let alone explain, the increase in the rate of unmarried motherhood in America following the '60s "war on poverty." And despite clear evidence about the relationship between crime and fatherlessness, the left does not want to talk about that "root cause."
White Supremacy? (Sarcasm alert)
Take a good look in a mirror, you stupid Marxist bitch.
One of the Left’s commandments:
Black cultural rot is a subject that shalt not be broached.
If you offer abundant free money, housing, food, education, etc. to anyone - healthy, sick, gay, straight, criminal, psycho, sane,etc. - they will come regardless of their circumstances.
If we had an honest media, this would be the first question someone would have asked her or Biden.
Destruction of the black family by increasing the availability of welfare, thus creating the incentive to not worry about where the next meal is coming from,
Having all that free time leads to having time to do drugs, drugs cost money, so people sell drugs to other people to make money, and the other people doing drugs dont have the money to pay for the drugs so they rob people.
Its a vicious cycle that leads back to too much government money given to single mothers and too many young women who aspire to be single mothers.
Pres Johnson was right when he said " I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 50 years. " He was right on the money. Love him or hate him, he knew what buttons to push with the black commumity
Ah, pulling the trigger?
Slavery, racism, white supremacy. Take your pick. No matter what democrat party “corrupt to the core” communism is the answer.
That is exactly the contention in both situations. Central America is a terrible place because of white American citizens, and urban BIPOCs kill one another because of white American citizens.
It's NOT 'gun violence' it's CRIMINAL VIOLENCE. Calling it 'gun violence' makes about as much sense as calling RAPE 'penis violence'. Then using that stupid phrase to condemn all men ... Again it's NOT 'gun violence' it's criminal violence.
In the above example, the typical Liberal would stop at "Because they wanted money!" The answer would then be clear: "Give them more money!"
Regards,
Africanization fails to bring about the desired change
Corruption kills
“...they’re fleeing some kind of harm....”
Well-considering ALL the many and increasing programs for assistance and taxpayer funded freebies to them.....the ONLY harm to US minorities is self-inflicted.
If you won’t assimilate, then there is no amount of ‘assistance’ of any kind that will compensate for your (by now) still imagined lack of opportunities!
Continue dropping out of school, bearing children out of wedlock, doing drugs, braking the law, etc., and the many billions of taxpayer dollars spent (still allocated) for assistance to minorities, will have been a pointless waste!!
WAKE UP and GROW UP!!
Maybe it’s just me but the invaders I see crossing our southern border are mostly over weight, including the kids
‘Root Cause’ of Urban Homicide?’
BTW-Kamel Face seems to have some kind of pre occupation with the word, ‘root’.
Probably a hang over from when Willie convinced her that it was all about the ‘root’ 😜
“But the bodies don’t lie. Blacks between the ages of ten and 43 die of homicide at 13 times the rate of whites, according to the CDC, thanks to comparably high rates of violence.”
Much here about the victims. Who did the shooting? The story almost doesn’t want you to know the truth.
Did you want to hear the science? Blacks as a group have lower IQs than other races and have a higher desire for physical violence. Thats the science.
Now , with free handouts, you give them plenty of free time and they will get dumber, more lazy, and angrier.
took 50 years to get here, how long to get innercity blacks motivated to move out of the free money pit and into neighborhoods that have jobs that pay more than welfare?
im a kook for telling the truth. Truth people dont want to admit.
watch the interview Tim Pool had with Steve Bannon.
(Yeah, he always looks like he needs a shave and a haircut and he often gets to rambling .. .)
Bannon on the manufacturing sell out of the GOP, the flood of drugs from China, the porn of the Corporate press and other specifics and their impact on Blue Collar working families in America.
A Red Pill - White Pill for BoomerCons
Fraction of children growing up in single-parent homes by race:
Black; 64%
Hispanic; 42%
White; 24%
Asian; 16%
Now rank those groups by economic status, susceptibility to neighborhood violence, educational achievement, and the like.
Correlation does not necessarily indicate causation, but it sure as shooting suggests (as Elder implies) a basis for systematic study.
Data: https://www.unitedwayokc.org/research/data-center/children-single-parent-families/
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