The left is blamed for undermining ‘black underclass’ - says Jason Riley

[Svnla]

He says:

“Every time we get a Ferguson or a Trayvon Martin, we start talking about relationships between the black community and the police department,” Riley said. “We start talking about racial profiling. We start talking about poverty and unemployment. But I think those are really side issues, and what they're really ducking is the real issue, which is black criminality, black crime rates.”


“The question isn't whether bias or racism or prejudice still exists, of course it does,” Riley said in a recent interview with “Power Players.” “The question is: Is that an all-purpose explanation for what ails the black community?”

Riley, a conservative commentator and FOX News contributor, cited a statistic showing that blacks are responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime in the U.S. relative to the group’s population size, arguing that, “until that changes, you're going to have tensions between the black community and the police department.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-p...-undermining--black-underclass-230016895.html

I will add this recent link from a friend (two guys fought, one pulled out a gun and an innocent woman was dead from a stray bullet) = http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2014/09/17/woman-shot-allendale/15811531/

Did the cops/racists/racism/poverty<fill in the blank excuses> kill that innocent woman or senseless violent in her neighborhood?

 

[werepossum]

He says:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-p...-undermining--black-underclass-230016895.html

I will add this recent link from a friend (two guys fought, one pulled out a gun and an innocent woman was dead from a stray bullet) = http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2014/09/17/woman-shot-allendale/15811531/

Did the cops/racists/racism/poverty<fill in the blank excuses> kill that innocent woman or senseless violent in her neighborhood?

Of course not, but I think it's reasonable to say racism plays some part. Slavery and probably even more Jim Crow segregation and similar forms of institutionalized racism (including the soft racism of low expectations) prevented most blacks from getting good educations and good jobs. True, some rose to the top - the cream always does - but it's immensely harder to rise to the top with a foot on your head, so fewer did, and thus fewer bore children into middle or upper class homes. Poor educations and poor jobs lead to poor people; poor people have poor children. Poor children are more likely to become criminals, for a variety of reasons - they are exposed to more crime, they are vastly more likely to be raised in broken and/or dysfunctional homes, they get much worse educations (and see little reason around them to value education at all), they live in more stressful circumstances, and they just flat out have less to lose and thus more to gain. (Obviously a stolen X-Box is a lot less valuable to a kid whose father gives him a $100/week allowance than to a kid whose father never appears in his life and whose mother is barely feeding him on what she earns.)

Obviously this can be overcome - Asian immigrants prove that handily, and many immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are so successful that our native race pimps want them barred from the good government bennies - but doing so is more difficult if you are poor. You have fewer opportunities, and are less able to recover if you do fumble. (A DUI arrest with a $100k attorney is a trip to a tony rehab resort, after which it disappears; a DUI arrest with a public defender is a trip to prison, after which it follows you for the rest of your life.) Institutional racism played a huge part in so many blacks being born poor, so to that extent, racism is a factor even though it's largely a non-issue today (unless you piss off/scare/startle/ignore a cop while black.)

I think you are correct that far too much today is blamed on racism; it's become a crutch for not trying. But ignoring how we got here is also not smart. If you don't know where you came from, then you don't know where you're going.

 

[alcoholbob]

Lack of opportunity of entry-level jobs and the war on drugs has made it lucrative to be out of the workforce. The problem is government and its contractors--prison industrial complex in particular--have a lot to gain from maintaining the incentives that lead to high rates of drug-related crime.

 

[Moonbeam]

I think the problem could be fixed by nationalizing all prisons and placing a special tax only on the wealthy, to pay for them while running rehab centers as a discretionary option paid for by general taxes.

 

[justoh]

How original.

 

[CitizenKain]

He says:




http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-p...-undermining--black-underclass-230016895.html

I will add this recent link from a friend (two guys fought, one pulled out a gun and an innocent woman was dead from a stray bullet) = http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/crime/2014/09/17/woman-shot-allendale/15811531/

Did the cops/racists/racism/poverty<fill in the blank excuses> kill that innocent woman or senseless violent in her neighborhood?

English is still too hard for you isn't it? Learn it or get the fuck out.


Is it really surprising that rightwing black guy knows the secret to getting money from other rightwingers is telling them what they want to hear?

 

[cubby1223]

Is it really surprising that rightwing black guy knows the secret to getting money from other rightwingers is telling them what they want to hear?

I believe the proper term is Uncle Tom.

 

[Svnla]

English is still too hard for you isn't it? Learn it or get the fuck out.


Is it really surprising that rightwing black guy knows the secret to getting money from other rightwingers is telling them what they want to hear?

Did you see the question about the death of an innocent woman that I raised in the OP? Did you? Learn to read and then answer or get the fuck out!!! English is too hard for you, eh?

 

[Zaap]

&#8220;The question isn't whether bias or racism or prejudice still exists, of course it does,&#8221; Riley said in a recent interview with &#8220;Power Players.&#8221; &#8220;The question is: Is that an all-purpose explanation for what ails the black community?&#8221;

Seriously....ONLY a race-baiting "all blacks must know their role and never dare stray from it or else be called Uncle Tom and other forms of the left's version of 'uppity n-word" leftist jackass could find a thing even slightly controversial in that statement or any of the others. It even offers up the obligitory answer to the left's greatest fear and go-to strawman "so you're saying there's no more racism!!!!???"

This thread should be a perfect opportunity for many of our resident race-bait coalition members to demonstrate their venom against any minority that steps out of line from "left-wing puppet".

 

[ctbaars]

well, that escalated quickly