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I remember when Chicago were going for the Olympics. What a total embarrassment to the country that would have been. Glad everyone dodged that bullet.
Actually, the city of Atlanta hosted the 1996 Olympics, when its murder rate was much higher than Chicago's is now. I would also look up an event called Freaknik.
We've been having these issues since the 80's and there's still been no solution in most major cities besides pricing people out rather than actually cleaning up the community.
Maybe its time for a new approach. Instead of giving them drugs to support themselves how about giving the people actual jobs??
But wait, we can't even get our employment rates as a whole under control.
The problem is, you're talking about after children are born. And in the black community, children are born without a dad 75% of the time. That right there automatically starts them off on the wrong foot.
Then, their mother has more children from different men, etc but no one with any authority in the black society (Mr. Obama?) is willing to call this out as one of, if not THE major problem that all these other problems down the line stem from.
It's because most of these problems can't be easily solved within a matter of years, and fixing them has to start with individual families, rather than the entire community or race.
But blacks in cities do have much higher murder rates than the rest. It's partially poverty-driven but not enough to explain the gap. For example, hispanics are poorer than blacks in NYC, but blacks have a higher violent crime rate.
The missing variable is encounter rates.
Blacks in Chicago and New York City live in more segregated neighborhoods. Chicago is #2 or #3 IIRC in most segregated cities in the country. If blacks all live in one area, of course the violent crime rate will be higher. In mixed white-black-asian-latino areas (the West Coast is far less demographically segregated) the black-black murder rate will seem lower.
But blacks in cities do have much higher murder rates than the rest. It's partially poverty-driven but not enough to explain the gap. For example, hispanics are poorer than blacks in NYC, but blacks have a higher violent crime rate.
I am not denying that, I am just saying being black doesn't mean that person is a criminal or will commit violence. There are other issues than skin color for the reason for increased violence in poor black neighborhoods.
The problem is, you're talking about after children are born. And in the black community, children are born without a dad 75% of the time. That right there automatically starts them off on the wrong foot.
Then, their mother has more children from different men, etc but no one with any authority in the black society (Mr. Obama?) is willing to call this out as one of, if not THE major problem that all these other problems down the line stem from.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? I am talking about starting with the current youngest generation, you have to start somewhere and we can hop in a time machine and go back to when it first started, so thus we should start with this current generation of children to help them prevent the mistakes their parents made.
I am not denying that, I am just saying being black doesn't mean that person is a criminal or will commit violence. There are other issues than skin color for the reason for increased violence in poor black neighborhoods.
I never claimed that the bolded, obviously most blacks aren't criminals. As for issues, I didn't give any reasons, I just noted the difference.
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