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| Baltimore burns and America declines |
| 2015-04-30 |
When do you declare a point of no return? The burning of Baltimore might appear in future history texts as the turning-point in America's fortunes. Six years after the election of America's first African-American president, the prospects of black Americans seem bleaker than at any time since the First World War, when the great migration began from the cotton-fields of the South to the factories of the North. Nearly three quarters of black children are born outside of marriage, which means that the vast majority of black children are raised by single parents. Black women, meanwhile, are carrying the economic burden of their families more than men. Roughly 3 black women are employed full time for every 2 black men (for American whites, the ratio is 3:2 in favor of men). It is hard to blame racism for this discrepancy: why should there be less discrimination against female black job applications than against male job applicants? Two-thirds of Bachelor's degrees awarded to African-Americans, moreover, go to women. No people in the history of the world has managed to raise and educate children without a father's contribution to family income. Where are the black men? For every 100 black adult women not in jail, the New York Times reports, there are only 83 black men. The missing 17% are dead or in jail. The reason that so many black men are in jail is because they have committed crimes. There is an argument, to be sure, that many black men are incarcerated for "non-violent" crimes such as selling illegal drugs; the counterargument is that the drug business is inherently violent, and that it is easier to catch a miscreant selling drugs than to catch him in the act of shooting a rival. In any case, America's higher incarceration rate has coincided with a drastic drop in the incidence of violent crime. Statisticians will argue ad infinitum about causality, but a common-sense reading of the data tells us that there is less crime because more violent offenders are in jail. The criminal justice system has contained crime in America, at dreadful cost: One in 87 white men of working age is incarcerated, vs. 1 in 36 Hispanic men and 1 in 12 African American men. There are more African American men aged 20 to 34 without a high school diploma or GED are behind bars (37 percent) than are employed (26 percent). It is nonsense to suggest that police violence has much impact on the big picture: 94% of black murder victims are killed by blacks. Black men have a 1 in 21 chance of being murdered, vs. 1 in 131 for white men. No matter what anyone does, things will get worse before they get better. Never in his history has the United States spent so much to support a nonworking population. As Nicholas Eberstadt observed in his 2012 book "A Nation of Takers," one out of every three American households has at least one person receiving some kind of means-tested government payment. If African-American rage takes the form of arson on a mass scale--after the election of a black president--there is no apparent solution. It is merely a symptom of American decline. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #16 Compare CNN AM "ANDERSON COOPER 360" INTERVIEW > BALTIMORE COMMUNITY ACTIVIST MELECH THOMAS = gave kudos to the Bloods, Crips, + Other City Orgs for their efforts to keep the peace during the on-going protest march. FYI a number of Balt Protestors including High-Profile Personages were seen on CNN claiming that they will ignore the new mandatory curfew. VERSUS * FYI FREEREPUBLIC, DRUDGEREPORT > NEW BLACK PANTHER LEADER: WE ARE "WILLING TO KILL" FOR A BLACK NATION. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-30 22:30 |
| #15 In my humble opinion I believe this is but the spring freshet that precedes the flood.I believe marching orders are given for the rabble and stand down orders for law enforcement. Any city like Baltimore is prime for this activity. When Obama makes his executive order for his undocumented aliens I view him as an undocumented alien. Why allow so many in. I believe it is for power but looking at the birth rate decline perhaps it is; shall I say, a baby boomer surge. His end game is to hold onto power. So fire up his base. Shackle law enforcement. Then say in September things should be in a good mess then declare martial law. This should occur in October at the latest. His mind works as an Arab. I believe them to be more of a superstitious people than a religious people. So they will follow dates as they have in the past when they make their moves. My two cents.I am a future thinker. |
| Posted by: Dale 2015-04-30 19:46 |
| #14 Read a news report once and a cop more or less pointed to a wall that showed mugshots. He said these are the bad ones in our town, when they are in jail all is quiet, when they are out we are busy. I suspect every town has a similar issue they just won't talk about it. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-04-30 15:04 |
| #13 The left thrives on chaos, unrest and anarchy. Remember Rahm Emmanuel who said: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." I've come to hate the left's phony ginned up social justice B.S. I view most of their causes of late as downright evil and destructive of the country. |
| Posted by: Thiting Grolung5524 2015-04-30 11:45 |
#12 ...America's higher incarceration rate has coincided with a drastic drop in the incidence of violent crime. Statisticians will argue ad infinitum about causality, but a common-sense reading of the data tells us that there is less crime because more violent offenders are in jail. This needs to be the lead subtopic in this article, get it aired out and out of the way. All racis' talk, anyway. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-04-30 11:35 |
| #11 Allen West SUMS IT ALL UP so anybody can understand. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-04-30 11:28 |
| #10 No matter what anyone does, things will get worse before they get better. I hate to say it and pray it doesn’t happen but amnesty for illegal aliens will be the charge that ignites the powder keg. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2015-04-30 11:11 |
| #9 Mean this Hupineger Glomomp52169 ? http://www.geni.com/projects/American-slave-owners/11457 Black slave owners in the United States |
| Posted by: Black Charlie Bonaparte8627 2015-04-30 09:37 |
| #8 @#1: Dunno Dale. Did a quick peek and here's what I found: [LINK] |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-04-30 08:22 |
| #7 #5 Milroy's weary boys? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-04-30 08:18 |
| #6 Quite right P2k, but we came by the practice honestly. Perfidious Albion has long used.... OPS (other people soldiers), to include the Germans, Scots, and the Irish. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-30 08:02 |
| #5 Not to be confused with immigrant Germans who fled their countries to avoid the Prussian inspired military drafts only to find themselves on New York piers enroute to the Union Army. There was nearly an entire corps of the Army of the Potomac made up of these poor chaps. Most of them didn't speak the language either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-30 07:52 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: 2015-04-30 07:42 |
| #3 Where are the Irish riots NY 1863? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-30 07:38 |
| #2 Written by someone who wasn't around in '68. Of course today's Lefties have no history, why else would they keep repeating the same mistakes associated with socialism and redistributionism. As for the 'community' they sold their souls not for freedom to succeed or fail, but the velvet covered chains of socialist servitude and false promises of a utopia of unearned entitlements. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-30 07:19 |
| #1 Voted nearly 100% for liberal Demonstrates for years. Where are the Asian riots. Where are the Irish riots. Arrest rates are higher for whites. This is Liberal Democrats in decline. The conservative Democrat has no place to go these days. Soon it looks like the same thing is going to happen to conservative Republicans. Conservatism works every time. Mix that with capitalism and you have a winner. Putin is doing this mix now. This slavery business is a canard. The largest slave owner in the south was a black woman and she had political clout. When slaves were given their freedom many went on to own slaves themselves. History is written by the winners. |
| Posted by: Dale 2015-04-30 07:07 |