Inner cities a snapshot of America's future

IShopAtPublix · Mar 9, 2009

You mean the historical nature of slave owners not respecting slave marriages is irrelevant? Things don't come out of thin air. Obama as a role model is priceless to black youth. Not only in terms of achievement, but family life.

IShopAtPublix · Mar 10, 2009

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So the black crime rate should go down now that one of "dey people be in da White House", right? No, probably not. As a matter of fact, the black crime will probably experience a noticeable increase. LOL
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Crime rate will go up regardless because the economy is going south fast. Obama's presidency will inspire many black youth.

JDL · Mar 10, 2009

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Inner cities a snapshot of America's future

by Star Parker

Blacks are not given enough credit for being trendsetters in America.

Blacks started playing the blues, jazz, and R&B, then the rest of America started playing them. Blacks discovered the politics of victimhood, then the rest of America started catching on.

Black women got into having babies without marriage. Then white women started getting into it and the incidence of white out-of-wedlock births today -- almost 30 percent -- is higher than the black rate in the 1960's.

Blacks bought into dependency and the welfare state. Now the rest of America has bought in.

Blacks for years elected politicians championing public policy that destroyed their own communities. Now the rest of America has installed a new political leadership with the perfect formula -- run roughshod over private ownership, disdain traditional values, substitute political power for personal responsibility -- for destroying our country.

We can expect the rest of America to reap the same benefits that blacks have enjoyed from this lunacy. In the late 1960's, when President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his war on poverty and seeded welfare-state culture in our inner cities, the majority of black families had married parents living at home. By 1995 only 1 in 3 black homes had married parents.

As the black family collapsed, predictable social pathologies escalated: Crime, drugs, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, fatherless children, abortion, and disdain for education.

Not surprisingly, the black poverty rate, almost a quarter of the black population, has remained frozen at twice the national average since the late 1960's.

While the press was having a field day criticizing Gov. Bobby Jindal's television remarks following President Obama's address to Congress, too little attention was paid to his personal story. After all, the father of the 37-year-old Louisiana governor was a poor immigrant from India.

Not every child of poor immigrants becomes a governor before their 40th birthday. But there is a reason more people from all over the world want to immigrate to the United States than we're willing to let in. They come here for opportunity. Children of poor immigrants getting educated and moving in one generation into the middle class is the story of America.

Why, then, when poor immigrant families readily move in one generation into the middle class, does one fourth of black America remain poor, generation after generation?

Racism? I don't think so. Black poverty is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of single mother homes. The incidence of poverty in black homes with married parents is around 10 percent, well below the national average.

It's what happens when lives get politicized and people are instructed to be helpless. In the case of blacks, it's being taught that America is inherently racist and that their only hope is political protection from white exploitation.

Our politicians tell us now that we need to turn the whole country over to them because capitalism has supposedly failed and we need protection from exploitation by the wealthy.

Has anyone noticed that the only markets that have failed in America are the ones distorted with major government controls, regulations, subsidies, or taxpayer guarantees?

University of Michigan economist Mark Perry recently listed on his blog 16 typical household items -- furniture, kitchen appliances, electronics -- showing how many hours of work, at the average wage, it would take to purchase these items today, compared to 1950. The whole basket of goods takes one fifth the amount of hours of work today to purchase compared to 59 years ago. This is markets and innovation at work.

Anyone who is curious where the current left-wing takeover of our economy will lead, with government soon taking 40 cents out of every dollar we produce, should tour through any of America's inner cities.
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next you will be crying about whites being less then 50% of the population and your country will be run by immigrant, need a job

hapaboy · Mar 10, 2009

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next you will be crying about whites being less then 50% of the population and your country will be run by immigrant, need a job
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That didn't make sense at all.

Please learn to write English and then post. Thanks.

JDL · Mar 10, 2009

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That didn't make sense at all.

Please learn to write English and then post. Thanks.
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i don't know the pain you must be going thru, to see white people loose control of a good thing, it must hurt

hapaboy · Mar 10, 2009

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i don't know the pain you must be going thru, to see white people loose control of a good thing, it must hurt
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Uh, I'm half white, like our President. You're wrong again...

JDL · Mar 10, 2009

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Uh, I'm half white, like our President. You're wrong again...
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uncle tom in the house tap dance boy.

hapaboy · Mar 10, 2009

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uncle tom in the house tap dance boy.
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Obama is in the White House and is an Uncle Tom?

Shame on you!

hapaboy · Mar 10, 2009

Quote from Z.O.G.:

So the black crime rate should go down now that one of "dey people be in da White House", right? No, probably not. As a matter of fact, the black crime will probably experience a noticeable increase. LOL
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ZOG, I asked you in another thread to provide links to data proving your claim that crime rates of middle-class and upper-class black Americans are higher than middle-class and upper-class whites relative to their population.

You didn't respond in that thread, so how about in this one?

Thanks.

Pa(b)st Prime · Mar 10, 2009

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ZOG, I asked you in another thread to provide links to data proving your claim that crime rates of middle-class and upper-class black Americans are higher than middle-class and upper-class whites relative to their population.

You didn't respond in that thread, so how about in this one?

Thanks.
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I posted something along those lines a couple of years back. Yea I hate to say it but criminality has a higher serial correlation to race than income. Simplistically stated a sample of millionaire, black NBA players will have a higher crime rate than a sample of trailer trash whites in Kentucky.

Bottom line: There's not really a white "crime rate" anywhere in America. The statistics have a MAJOR, MAJOR flaw. The FBI crime stats count Mexicans as white! Further crime stats aren't based on commission of crime but duh, only on arrests. Who is more likely to be arrested-the white guy who kills his wife or the gang banger who shoots someone in a drive-by? One class of homicides has a virtual 100% clearance rate the other a 1 in 10 clearance. That's why race of victims is the best arbiter but there's an obvious flaw in that analysis as well. Black on white crime isn't uncommon whereas white on black crime is headline producing rare.