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| The Cultural And Political Forces Driving Violence In The Black Community |
| 2023-03-30 |
| [American Thinker] America has a problem: a subculture of black crime. Every race has criminals, but when 6% of the population, black males, are responsible for over 50% of the murders and violent crimes, one must ask why. The answer lies in the irony that blacks inherited the worst of old-time, white Scots-Irish culture, over which leftists placed racial grievance politics. The former created bad behavior; the latter leaves blacks unprepared or unwilling to address that behavior. Thomas Sowell’s fascinating Conquests and Cultures discusses how different societies evolved. The primary takeaway is that, in the last 500 years, the Europeans have far surpassed the rest of the planet while Africans have lagged farthest behind. This isn’t race-based. It’s because of water and geography. Europe has numerous easily navigable rivers and deep-water harbors. Additionally, almost every spot on the continent is within 500 miles of the sea, allowing most Europeans to trade within Europe and around the world. That ability to easily trade foods, manufactured goods, people and, most of all, ideas with one another allowed Europeans to incorporate everything from gunpowder from China to numbers from India, crafting a civilization that far surpassed anything found anywhere else. The inventiveness, efficiencies, freedoms, and prosperity Europeans developed allowed them to dominate the world for centuries. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Curiously, this showed up in my youtube feed recently: Facts about Africa's Geography never taught in schools |Thomas Sowell It's a nice tour of Africa's geography and the lack harbors and navigable rivers. Certainly, geography plays a big role in how you start the game. Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs And Steel looks at the world from that perspective. But culture matters, too. The sooner you invent the rule of law, writing, medicine, pottery, math, science and such, the sooner your people start doing better. And better accumulates over time, like compound interest. I wonder if there is a spike in black crime starting with the Great Society cohort? Maybe even a decline in socio-economic status, which is to say, more poverty. Note to self: read Conquests and Cultures |
| Posted by: SteveS 2023-03-30 21:40 |
| #2 Black culture in America seems to mirror black culture in Nigeria. Did they bring it with them? |
| Posted by: jpal 2023-03-30 17:38 |
| #1 Black culture was no more criminal than any other segment of overall American society until government incentivized tge breakup of black families. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-30 12:27 |