This is about the Obamaconomy. No jobs but dealing herion and meth. Dealers - e.g. black males 18-34 - have no other job prospects and have to shoot out a patch.
People who have nothing to lose become very dangerous.
They have a job - vote every 2 years. Imagine - that probably works out to 1.5hrs of work per year and they get a paycheck greater than what many fine Americans make working 5 days a week in blue collar jobs.
They have voted for this, but for all who say “let them have what they vote for” you fail to understand. We pay for it. Our children pay for it. Our grandchildren will be paying for it. We share in the tragedy now and into the future as far as the eye can see. There are no winners in the inner city - we all lose. The real tragedy is the unrealized potential of all those children - that is heartbreaking to me. We are condemning them to statistical failure yet we continue to pay for it and “hope for the best.”
It is time for a fundamental change in how we deal with these communities. We can’t afford the current approach and much like education, the politicians only want to throw more money at it and nothing gets better. I am tired of being told that I can’t speak to it because I am not a person of color. That is bullcrap. Those who claim the moral pulpit to talk about it are the ones benefiting from the issue advocacy - the status quo benefits them - not positive changes.
After 20 plus years of observing this firsthand I can tell you that the rest of us will have to force the changes because I have given up on them fixing their own culture. By the way - the same kind of craptastic culture exists in welfare communities regardless of color.