Homicide on the rise in U.S. cities

Sacramento Bee ^ | July 30, 2002 | KIM CURTIS, Associated Press

[biblewonk]

Biblewonk, don't you know that's racist to mention that?

Oh NO, double jeopard. It's racist for a white guy to notice that something is racist. LOL

Not to mention, it makes you sound, well; mean, evil-spirited, reactionary, right-wing Christian, conservative, Republican, probably white-skinned and many more negative terms.

You sure nailed that, but, let's see, I loiter on FR all work day long and my SN is biblewonk. Hmmmm. You may have picked up on some hints. ;-)

The truth is that EVERYONE is a racist. It's just that it is vogue for all but whitey to be in denial.

[ValerieUSA]

Robbing banks has always been more profitable than flipping burgers, too, but not so honorable. Inner cities are populated by men without honor, and legitimate job offers won't change their character.

[.38sw]

idle young males selling drugs and guns are everywhere

Oakland is very anti-gun. They taxed the last sporting goods store that sold guns a couple of years ago (they levied a special tax on any stores selling guns. the last one, Seigle's, closed not too long ago). Oakland is in Alameda county, where almost no one except state Rep. Don Perata, an vicious anti-gun politician, has a concealed-carry permit. So guns are the problem?

Lack of jobs causing a lack of hope in their young men? Please. My dad grew up in the depths on the great depression. When he was 13, he left home, rode a freight train to California and picked strawberries in the summer. He went back to the midwest in the winter where he lived with his sister and went to school. He didn't resort to crime and murder. Poverty sparks these levels of homicides? It's nothing but a steamin' pile that "lack of jobs" causes these crimes. It's your value system and your upbringing.

[AmericanCompatriot]

Oakland is not alone. Los Angeles, Boston and other cities across the country are seeing a bounce in homicides that experts attribute to a slower economy and an accompanying lack of jobs.

Let's see. I'm out of work and the economy stinks. I think I'll go kill somebody!!! What kind of thought process is that? How about some information on the employment situation for these fine murderers prior to the economy collapsing. Something tells me these are not your middle-class Americans (these are the jobs that get trimmed....not the BIG jobs and not the LITTLE jobs). More junk stats without definition or detail. Every American should be forced to take a JUNK STATS course in college. Oh wait, that would make it so the sheep could see through the fog...and that would go against the liberal-college agenda. Dang! Thought I had something (***sarcasm***).

[toddst]

Lack of jobs causing a lack of hope in their young men? Please. . . . It's nothing but a steamin' pile that "lack of jobs" causes these crimes. It's your value system and your upbringing.

!0-4 on upbringing. These slugs have no respect for anything. Being "Diss'ed" will set them off. Most everything will cause an explosion over . . . whatever. They want easy money and will attack anyone who might be a source. Guess drug dealers are attacked 'cause that's where the money is. Let 'um shoot it out. Cheaper than shoving them in jail at our expense.

[corsair]

Inner cities are populated by men without honor, and legitimate job offers won't change their character.

This is what I meant by Oakland, California has a chronically inferior social structure.

Many young men in Oakland are doomed to dishonorable lives of incompetence and crime by their single parent families, absentee fathers, corrupt godless schools, and demagogue politicians that blame guns, "the system", racism, capitalism and whitey.

But, the politicians, and apologists for youth crime will never point their fingers at feminism, socialism, high divorce rates, multiculturalism; or at themselves and their own moral absenteeism.