light industrial, low skilled factory jobs......
Your whole post is right on. I've seen the decimation of light industry in the North East
The prime function of civilization is the domestication of male urges. Teaching them that if they follow the rules and control their impulses it is in their long term self interest. A society without light industrial, low skilled factory jobs cannot offer young minority males an alternative to street life, gangs, and a very violent, destructive, sexually promiscuous masculinity.
It wasn't always like this. Once Harlem was nice. Once the cities of the Northeast had stable, church-going, working class communities. Take away employment and respectable people no longer control the streets. Now idle young men do.