I enjoyed the piece, Glenn. I liked knowing a European publication is getting a saner, more realistic take on such matters than is often the case.
I think the black crime problem (and I live in a BIG CITY, so it is everyone's problem, really) is much more one of culture than poverty. I am struck by how even conservatives who show up in the media (GOPpers, FOXers...) dont stress that, barely mention it, these days, whereas I thought they used to identify family breakdown as a prime cause of crime and overall negative outcomes. Now they bang away at "lousy schools" as the source of the inner city (black) crime problem, as if school choice is the be-all-end-all silver bullet. As such, they get to knock the unions along w public schools (which sometimes deserve it) in the talking points. And the left is hopeless, of course, when it comes to even brushing up against the periphery of self/family/community responsibility. What makes their sin of omission even worse is that they fill up that void largely with sins of commission: things that distract, enable, and intensify the problem.
Im thinking of the untested Eric Adams, who I had hoped (50/50) might reverse our very disturbing rising crime trajectory (Adams being the NYC Dem mayoral primary candidate I voted for as maybe the best of an unimpressive, sorry bunch). I just heard him tell Jake Tapper that Biden has a great grasp on resolving our crime problem w his gun initiatives. (No, not really, Eric... Yes, I get it - the PRESIDENT invited you to DC to FINALLY talk crime... wow!... and yes, you are a Dem and a politician, but no need to use the whole stick of butter!) Then he said that beyond all that, what counts most in our game plan to end crime (in the black community) is giving kids the chance to shine instead of fail due to a lousy education.
And I groaned.
And then I thought, no wait, he's right! It's just that what's right in what he said is the part he didn't say: Yes, it is how kids are educated... wait for it... and that education starts at birth and is provided by the child's caregivers (preferably 2 parents) in the child's home. No one, but no one, dares to say that essential truth in the mainstream public square these days - except as a fleeting observation once in a while. And yes, schools do matter, but the primary education is from the home, and if that were elevated, we would see those "lousy schools" elevated too.
I keep coming back to how we are a maddeningly stupid society in so many ways: an Emperors' New Clothes on endless loop, but missing the story's shining star: the precocious little boy who, at the end, made it all make sense again.
"I think the black crime problem is much more one of culture than poverty" - seems so. There are poor people in all ethnic groups (the Chinese-off-the-boat in NYC, for example), but none commit murder at the rate blacks do.
Maybe. But white Americans aren't even having babies anymore to be murdered. Of which, the suicide rate is 2.6 times higher for whites than blacks in this country and the drug overdose rate for whites is now 1.5 times higher. That suicides & drugs kill far more people than homicides do. Far more whites in this country are dying from guns and drugs than blacks are. Our murder rate went up under Trump from historic lows under Obama, to it's still pretty low by historical standards. These suicides and substance abuse "deaths of despair" however are record-breaking horror show like nothing this country's ever quite seen these two are among the Top 10 causes of death! And they're far more a white problem than a black problem. That whites are the ones DE-populating already! Red State life expectancy is now YEARS(PLURAL!) worse than the Blue States! The Right likes pointing fingers at Democratic cities, but the GOP doesn't even have any cities! Or none of any consequence anyway. Jacksonville and Fort Worth, Texas are their "biggest", but who in the entire world has ever heard of anything or anyone coming from either of those!?!? Keep in mind that European colonialists(original white supremacists ironically so often fled the "Old World" for "less developed" areas) thought people that had no cities were unwashed uncultured uncivilized backwards savage barbarians who needed to be conquered!
There's roughly 50 homicides per day in this country of all races and genders. There's hundreds more whites males alone killing themselves and overdosing on drugs per day than this. And white males aren't being born at the other end. Keep some perspective.
"But white Americans aren't even having babies anymore to be murdered."
Odd line there, right out of the gate. What am I to think about that? is the implication that whites should be having more babies... "to be murdered"? Would that be a helpful achievement to the equity pushers, since a lot of black babies, kids, are being murdered by black people. Is it the color disparity of victims we need to even out - with MORE murders of whites catching up to the blacks? That's about all Ive got for a line like that. But moving on, let's go with your major theme: white suicide and drug use, more whites than blacks are hurting... themselves.
So... I think it is far more moral and, practically speaking, life saving (of others' lives) to choose suicide over murder. That goes for self abuse (drugs) over abusing others - also way more moral. How about you?
(I mean, it's wrong to even say "more" moral because murder and abuse is simply immoral, but Im working with what Ive got to make the point.)
As for the murder rate, it began to go up noticeably in 2020 and continues to rise in 2021, in city after city, usually Dem run, FOLLOWING the BLM, antiFAed protests, where the mayhem went largely unimpeded by Dems & media allies, NOT TRUMP or GOP. This societal breakdown was often excused, ignored, or enabled by the Dems/Left-Mainstream Media during weeks of aggression, assault, looting, burning, homicides uncorked by reaction to one black man's tragic murder by a white cop.
I follow that with two words that must follow: Tony Timpa. Two more words: He's white. I mean, he was, before he was murdered by cop, in a way eerily similarly to Floyd, even in that it was captured on video. But the publicity, the outrage, the punishment for the cops... well, that's been quite different. Guess how?
Finally, you cant hang this one on Trump. In fact, in part it was the ridiculous knee jerk antipathy of Dems/Media toward Trump (TDS is a real and harmful thing), and his rational efforts to quell the criminality and chaos, that caused crime to increase.
Perhaps when one is convinced throughout their lives that they are
victims of racism and injustice, it gives an excuse for a lack of personal responsibility for one's actions. there is no doubt that both the racism and injustice were (and perhaps still are) present in our society - indeed present for a lot of people regardless of coloro - but the older blacks I have known throughout the years never relied on that excuse.to stop them from advancing. Unfortunately their children and too often their grandchildren drank the kool aid giving fame and glory to the likes of the while fragility movement. and helping to undermine and even destroy their communities.
I enjoyed the piece, Glenn. I liked knowing a European publication is getting a saner, more realistic take on such matters than is often the case.
I think the black crime problem (and I live in a BIG CITY, so it is everyone's problem, really) is much more one of culture than poverty. I am struck by how even conservatives who show up in the media (GOPpers, FOXers...) dont stress that, barely mention it, these days, whereas I thought they used to identify family breakdown as a prime cause of crime and overall negative outcomes. Now they bang away at "lousy schools" as the source of the inner city (black) crime problem, as if school choice is the be-all-end-all silver bullet. As such, they get to knock the unions along w public schools (which sometimes deserve it) in the talking points. And the left is hopeless, of course, when it comes to even brushing up against the periphery of self/family/community responsibility. What makes their sin of omission even worse is that they fill up that void largely with sins of commission: things that distract, enable, and intensify the problem.
Im thinking of the untested Eric Adams, who I had hoped (50/50) might reverse our very disturbing rising crime trajectory (Adams being the NYC Dem mayoral primary candidate I voted for as maybe the best of an unimpressive, sorry bunch). I just heard him tell Jake Tapper that Biden has a great grasp on resolving our crime problem w his gun initiatives. (No, not really, Eric... Yes, I get it - the PRESIDENT invited you to DC to FINALLY talk crime... wow!... and yes, you are a Dem and a politician, but no need to use the whole stick of butter!) Then he said that beyond all that, what counts most in our game plan to end crime (in the black community) is giving kids the chance to shine instead of fail due to a lousy education.
And I groaned.
And then I thought, no wait, he's right! It's just that what's right in what he said is the part he didn't say: Yes, it is how kids are educated... wait for it... and that education starts at birth and is provided by the child's caregivers (preferably 2 parents) in the child's home. No one, but no one, dares to say that essential truth in the mainstream public square these days - except as a fleeting observation once in a while. And yes, schools do matter, but the primary education is from the home, and if that were elevated, we would see those "lousy schools" elevated too.
I keep coming back to how we are a maddeningly stupid society in so many ways: an Emperors' New Clothes on endless loop, but missing the story's shining star: the precocious little boy who, at the end, made it all make sense again.
Parenting and education are the 2 elements that can change the tide. Excellent points.
"I think the black crime problem is much more one of culture than poverty" - seems so. There are poor people in all ethnic groups (the Chinese-off-the-boat in NYC, for example), but none commit murder at the rate blacks do.
Maybe. But white Americans aren't even having babies anymore to be murdered. Of which, the suicide rate is 2.6 times higher for whites than blacks in this country and the drug overdose rate for whites is now 1.5 times higher. That suicides & drugs kill far more people than homicides do. Far more whites in this country are dying from guns and drugs than blacks are. Our murder rate went up under Trump from historic lows under Obama, to it's still pretty low by historical standards. These suicides and substance abuse "deaths of despair" however are record-breaking horror show like nothing this country's ever quite seen these two are among the Top 10 causes of death! And they're far more a white problem than a black problem. That whites are the ones DE-populating already! Red State life expectancy is now YEARS(PLURAL!) worse than the Blue States! The Right likes pointing fingers at Democratic cities, but the GOP doesn't even have any cities! Or none of any consequence anyway. Jacksonville and Fort Worth, Texas are their "biggest", but who in the entire world has ever heard of anything or anyone coming from either of those!?!? Keep in mind that European colonialists(original white supremacists ironically so often fled the "Old World" for "less developed" areas) thought people that had no cities were unwashed uncultured uncivilized backwards savage barbarians who needed to be conquered!
There's roughly 50 homicides per day in this country of all races and genders. There's hundreds more whites males alone killing themselves and overdosing on drugs per day than this. And white males aren't being born at the other end. Keep some perspective.
"But white Americans aren't even having babies anymore to be murdered."
Odd line there, right out of the gate. What am I to think about that? is the implication that whites should be having more babies... "to be murdered"? Would that be a helpful achievement to the equity pushers, since a lot of black babies, kids, are being murdered by black people. Is it the color disparity of victims we need to even out - with MORE murders of whites catching up to the blacks? That's about all Ive got for a line like that. But moving on, let's go with your major theme: white suicide and drug use, more whites than blacks are hurting... themselves.
So... I think it is far more moral and, practically speaking, life saving (of others' lives) to choose suicide over murder. That goes for self abuse (drugs) over abusing others - also way more moral. How about you?
(I mean, it's wrong to even say "more" moral because murder and abuse is simply immoral, but Im working with what Ive got to make the point.)
As for the murder rate, it began to go up noticeably in 2020 and continues to rise in 2021, in city after city, usually Dem run, FOLLOWING the BLM, antiFAed protests, where the mayhem went largely unimpeded by Dems & media allies, NOT TRUMP or GOP. This societal breakdown was often excused, ignored, or enabled by the Dems/Left-Mainstream Media during weeks of aggression, assault, looting, burning, homicides uncorked by reaction to one black man's tragic murder by a white cop.
I follow that with two words that must follow: Tony Timpa. Two more words: He's white. I mean, he was, before he was murdered by cop, in a way eerily similarly to Floyd, even in that it was captured on video. But the publicity, the outrage, the punishment for the cops... well, that's been quite different. Guess how?
Finally, you cant hang this one on Trump. In fact, in part it was the ridiculous knee jerk antipathy of Dems/Media toward Trump (TDS is a real and harmful thing), and his rational efforts to quell the criminality and chaos, that caused crime to increase.
Perhaps when one is convinced throughout their lives that they are
victims of racism and injustice, it gives an excuse for a lack of personal responsibility for one's actions. there is no doubt that both the racism and injustice were (and perhaps still are) present in our society - indeed present for a lot of people regardless of coloro - but the older blacks I have known throughout the years never relied on that excuse.to stop them from advancing. Unfortunately their children and too often their grandchildren drank the kool aid giving fame and glory to the likes of the while fragility movement. and helping to undermine and even destroy their communities.