tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post3089286452455957284..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Martin Luther King Quote on Ferguson, MOUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-61644358718548269202017-01-21T20:44:58.785-06:002017-01-21T20:44:58.785-06:00Wow Troy, your obsession with making excuses and y...Wow Troy, your obsession with making excuses and your denial about the violence that is part of black culture (and actually glorified in gangsta rap etc) is nothing less than mental illness. "There's no such thing as black-on-black crime"??? Are you out of your MIND??? As for "poverty, education, etc", the "etc" that you conveniently failed to mention is the fact that 70% of black kids are raised WITHOUT FATHERS, the fact that people like you (and more prominent race-baiters) instill an attitude of VICTIMHOOD, RAGE, and "THE WHITE MAN OWES ME SOMETHING" in black children that was not even there in the 1950s, before the Civil Rights movement!!! Black families were more intact then, and they might not have been able to drink from the same water fountains, or ride in the front of the bus, but they weren't blowing each other away in drive-by shootings or selling one another crack, meth, and other drugs nearly as often as they are now. The denial, excuses, and undermining of personal responsibility among black people that you're putting out there is the LAST thing black people need right now, because taking personal responsibility for their actions gives black people the power to change their own lives for the better, while blaming The White Man as people like you tend to do only keeps them in helpness, powerless victimhood, angry at the Massa for not taking care of them. You may mean well, but you ought to be ashamed of yourself for disempowering black people and stripping them of self-respect, dignity, and personal responsibility (and credit for their successes) as you and other liberals are doing. Blacks are arrested and incarcerated more often because they commit more crimes (especially violent crimes) than others do, AND because they have shitty attitudes and chips on their shoulders (not all obviously, but the ones who are constantly getting in trouble). "What they fuck are YOU looking at, bitch??", "Fuck the police", Kill mothaf#cking crackers", "F#ck white people", etc. Skin color has NOTHING to do with it, attitude and poor choices in life are what's keeping black people down (more than any other factor), but the more blacks are successful and manage to avoid a life of drugs, gangs, and violence, the more black children will see they have opportunities available to them besides selling crack on the corner, robbing people, or whatever. Obviously there are white criminals too, but the topic here is black crime so that's what I'm focusing on. “Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58% of its crimes? We’ve got to face that.” -Martin Luther King, 1961.bookguitarguy@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04051569403464279844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-52942622606885590442015-01-31T12:07:48.704-06:002015-01-31T12:07:48.704-06:00There’s no such thing as “black-on-black” crime. Y...There’s no such thing as “black-on-black” crime. Yes, from 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of black victims were killed by black offenders, but that racial exclusivity was also true for white victims of violent crime—86 percent were killed by white offenders. Indeed, for the large majority of crimes, you’ll find that victims and offenders share a racial identity, or have some prior relationship to each other.<br /><br />What Shapiro and others miss about crime, in general, is that it’s driven by opportunism and proximity; If African-Americans are more likely to be robbed, or injured, or killed by other African-Americans, it’s because they tend to live in the same neighborhoods as each other. Residential statistics bear this out (PDF); blacks are still more likely to live near each other or other minority groups than they are to whites. And of course, the reverse holds as well—whites are much more likely to live near other whites than they are to minorities and African-Americans in particular.<br /><br />Nor are African-Americans especially criminal. If they were, you would still see high rates of crime among blacks, even as the nation sees a historic decline in criminal offenses. Instead, crime rates among African-Americans, and black youth in particular, have taken a sharp drop. In Washington, D.C., for example, fewer than 10 percent of black youth are in a gang, have sold drugs, have carried a gun, or have stolen more than $100 in goodsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928666621410489911noreply@blogger.com