Below is from the smartest man in America, Walter E Williams. He articulated much better than I could what I've thought which is the black community is 9-% to blame for the situation we find ourselves in today. The last paragraph is a perfect illustration that politics is what's holding back progress in black America.



President Barack Obama and his first attorney general, Eric Holder, called for an honest conversation about race. Holder even called us “a nation of cowards” because we were unwilling to have a “national conversation” about race. The truth of the matter is there’s been more than a half-century of conversations about race. We do not need more. Instead, black people need to have frank conversations among ourselves, no matter how uncomfortable and embarrassing the topics may be.

Among the nation’s most dangerous cities are Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Newark, Cleveland and Philadelphia. These once-thriving cities are in steep decline. What these cities have in common is that they have large black populations. Also, they have been run by Democrats for nearly a half-century, with blacks having significant political power. Other characteristics these cities share are poorly performing and unsafe schools, poor-quality city services, and declining populations.

Each year, more than 7,000 blacks are murdered. That’s a number greater than white and Hispanic murder victims combined. Blacks of all ages are killed at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. According to the FBI, the police kill about 400 people a year; blacks are roughly one-third of that number. In Chicago alone, so far this year, over 2,000 people have been shot, leaving over 320 dead. It’s a similar tale of mayhem in other predominantly black cities.

Heather Mac Donald’s most recent book, “The War on Cops,” points out some devastating and sobering statistics: “Blacks were charged with 62 percent of all robberies, 57 percent of all murders, and 45 percent of all assaults in the 75 largest U.S. counties in 2009, while constituting roughly 15 percent of the population in those counties. From 2005 to 2014, 40 percent of cop-killers were black. Given the racially lopsided nature of gun violence, a 26 percent rate of black victimization by the police is not evidence of bias.”

The primary victims of lawlessness are black people. To address this problem and most others, black people should ignore the liberal agenda. If civil authorities will not do their job of creating a safe environment, then black people should take the initiative. One example comes to mind. In 1988, at the request of residents, black Muslims began to patrol Mayfair Mansions, a drug-infested, gang-ridden, unsafe Washington, D.C., housing project (http://tinyurl.com/zsszjgk). The gangs and drug lords left. The Nation of Islam sentinels were not deterred by the wishes of politicians and the American Civil Liberties Union. They didn’t feel obliged to give kid glove treatment to criminals. Black residents of crime-infested neighborhoods should set up patrols, armed if necessary, to challenge thugs, gangs, drug dealers and other miscreants and make black neighborhoods safe and respectable. No one should have to live in daily fear for his life and safety. Most Americans have no idea of — and wouldn’t begin to tolerate — the climate of fear and intimidation under which so many black people live.

Without self-initiative, there is not much that can be done about the high crime rate in black neighborhoods. Black and white liberals and their allies in the ACLU, as well as many libertarians, will not countenance the kind of tools needed to bring about civility. For example, the Chicago Police Department recently entered an agreement with the ACLU to record contact cards for all street stops. The ACLU claimed that police were disproportionately targeting minorities for questioning and searches. The practical result will be fewer investigative stops by policemen and more crime, and it will be black residents who suffer.

Black people have the capacity to run the criminals out of their neighborhoods. Let me put the issue another way. Suppose it were the Ku Klux Klan riding through black neighborhoods murdering 7,000 blacks year after year. How many black people would be willing to wait for the Klansmen to behave themselves or accept political promises and wait for a government program?

I highly respect the man, however, and without going to far out in the limb with why faith belief works for the masses.....
The race issue has spawned even more confusion on relationships because we have censored dialogue with a PC requirement(s) that by its very nature won't allow, or accept, differences, or prejudices, based on everyone's life experiences.....
And now the issue has become so convoluted and fragmented, I am not sure if even a Black man himself knows the answer.

A true story.
I was involved in civil litigation. I was present during jury seating.
The state attorney struck every black person off the jury until they ran out of strikes.
Funny, odd, or sad, they used race to decide, when they prosecute others for the same actions, WTF????

WebsterMark wrote on 07/12/16 at 08:10:23:

Funny,... that was Charles Manson's ideology...
HELTER SKELTER...

Yea, I know. You stole my thunder!
But, I think Jog's point is the "mess" is not a mess at all, it's going as planned.

But Jog and Walter  are both correct that in the past there was no such thing as an achievement gap between black-and-white. There was no such thing as the huge disparity with fathers in the home. It was only after politicians (Democrats) got involved that the black community was ruined.

Serowbot wrote on 07/12/16 at 08:48:28:


Tell you what you should do; look up Walter E William's website and read through it. You'll find it along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

Now Jog; How anyone could conclude otherwise is difficult to grasp

It's easy to grasp. Again, there is no wide spread coordinate effort. There are hundreds of individual actions taken without direct consultation with others, that created the results you see. It's not the other way around.

Serowbot wrote on 07/12/16 at 08:33:03:




And exactly how does that mean anything Here?
I don't see a lot of commonality between me and Manson, but,If it's there, then he is pretty smart..

Opportunistic. No one is coordinating police shootings for example.

Well duuh...

And the school system is Not designed to fail? I've pointed it out countless times before that they made changes that Admittedly caused Lower Performance, yet, they Never Undid the Bad Choice, they simply Used the
Our schools are broken
To demand power to Make More Changes.

The trade deals have destroyed our people.

And you come back to me with police shootings? Totally ridiculous to even pretend I'm so stupid as to see that as something being created by a dark hand.


And YOU PEOPLE want to disregard what I say, but Eisenhower WARNED of a military industrialial complex, JFK alluded to a dark and secret power, and the divisions of society caused by these nebulous problems Just H appen to make all that easier to accomplish, but, it's unrelated.

You are Why we can't fix it.

If you're not old enough to remember watching the news and hearing the arguments and seeing the demand for money and power to make changes and WATCH those Changes CAUSE LOWERED PERFORMANCE, only to never see any rolled back, just more change made, how do you know what they are designed to be? Have Any of you even spent one hour listening to Charlotte Izerbyt explain what she SAW from inside the DOE?  Listen, educate yourself.

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America


Or just KEEP believing your government.

You are NOw the one who is dragging up 9/11 and you can't explain why the cement all turned into powder before it hit the ground.

But, what none of you will do is address the FACTS I lay down.

The TWO parties never repeal what their mortal enemies did..

Yeah, they are opposed to each other..