Of the many important topics my friend Robert Cherry addresses in his new book, The State of the Black Family, gun violence may be the most immediately dire. In the following excerpt from this week’s conversation, Bob and I talk about both the obvious and the more subtle costs of gun violence in black communities, and why progressive DAs may be doing more harm than good.
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Not a single source - tracking down all the various federal and state programs, along with the analytics for various charities and crowdfunding was and remains a complicated slog. But there's a better source for the corporate pledged donations than that WaPo piece from a couple years ago: https://dc.claremont.org/blm-funding-database/
Innumerable studies have shown that certainty of negative consequences for bad behavior deters better than severity of the consequences.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, perhaps the greatest liberal thinker of the 20th Century, was prophetic. By every measure, life outcomes are better when two parents are in the home of the infant/toddler. When corrected for number of parents in the child's home, nearly all traces of black/white achievement gaps disappear. This dispels the myth that white racism restricts black achievement. There remains a small gap, and I'm happy to accept that it is due to racism.