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During the 1980s, the Black homicide rate was not cut in half. It went up and down and then up. In 1981, it was somewhere around 37 murders per 100,000. It dropped to about 28 murders per 100,000 in 1984 and then began rising again as crack hit the streets. The Black murder rate kept rising from then until 1991. The Black homidice rate actually had its most drastic drop between 1991 and 1999. From near 40 murders per 100,000 to 20 murders per 100,000.
The highest Black unemployment rate ever in the last 40 years was in 1983, at 19.5%
I was referring to the decades since Reagan. The previous poster was implying Reagan was to blame for much of the ills of the last 30 years when the truth is this is a much safer nation today than when Reagan took office.
Yet it was his administration that began a generation-long regression in our society's consideration for those most vulnerable. Society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members, and right when it started Angelou noted how Reagan betrayed his moderate projection and undercut our nation's moral stature by initiating decades of economic injustice.
The real regression began in mid 60's on both behavior especially violent and in wealth sharing thru present which has resulted I more people at bottom dependency status. The bottom is always the bottom. ;no matter the amount. If we even look at education we see the drop in standings. resulting from who don't have to do anything to survive.
Reagan's priority was cutting welfare, the minority woman with 8 children was the largest threat to the budget but good with the trillion dollar defense budget.
If that was his priority he was unsuccessful since welfare increased when Regan was in office.
Removing lead gram gasoline and remediation of lead paint from housing is the biggest in a host of cases for the drop in violent crime. Want to guess the name of the advocacy group that pushed for lead paint abatement programs in a lot cities?
Welfare did and still does need reform, but offshoring of jobs and supply-side trickle-up economics along with the war on the poor (war on drugs, mandatory minimums, militarization of police, etc...) has done more to create a permanent underclass in the than any welfare program ever could.
yeah, Clinton sucked!
"Trade with China will not only extend our nation's unprecedented economic growth, it offers us a chance to help shape the future of the world's most prosperous nation and to reaffirm our own global leadership for peace and prosperity."
"There are some issues that transcend ideology. That is, the view is so uniform that it unites people in both parties. This means our country can pursue a bipartisan policy with continuity over the decades. That's how we won the Cold War. That's how we have promoted peace and reconciliation in the Middle East. And that's how the United States of America has promoted freer trade and bigger markets for our products and those of other nations throughout the world. NAFTA is such an issue."
The Drug War, and the pushing of drugs into black communities WAS the reason for all of the violent crime in the 1st place.
I agree the escalation of the drug war was a big mistake. Where Reagan reduced government their was an effect of reducing crime in the long term. Where he increased government the opposite was true.
Our homicide rate peaked really twice, 1980, the last year of Carter's presidency, and 1992, the last year of GHWB's presidency. The homicide rate actually went down slightly in Reagan's terms.
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