So far this year homicides are in decline in Chicago and elsewhere, but young black males are still killing each other disproportionately at a steady rate of about 5,000 a year. Where's the outrage?
The simple (but unacceptable to articulate) truth is that if American cities were populated by white people they would be as safe as cities in China and Japan. There is one factor which accounts for the difference. Young black men. Young black men (15-34) are only 2% of the population but account for half of the nation’s homicides and other crime. A rate an astounding 50 times higher than that of the average American. As a result of that where white people decide to live, shop, vacation and even if they are willing to use public transit (especially women) has been for decades largely based on avoiding large groups of black people because of their perceived and actual tendency to engage in violence. The term white flight in housing patterns has always been used as a disparaging reference when, in truth, it means white common sense.
If you have watched The Sopranos you saw the Italian community begin to distance itself from the crime ridden Mafia. When does the apparent tolerance for crime within the black community which includes jury nullification of black criminal cases along with the acceptance by black school administrators of the disruption of classrooms by out of control individuals begin to end? Finally, when will fathers who fail to care for and love their children and especially their boy children be openly censured by black leadership? The young Chris Rock joked openly about these issues but he clearly now censors himself as does the entire black community.
Until and unless this problem is corrected America will not enjoy the safe urban experience that is common in Asia and Europe.
The simple (but unacceptable to articulate) truth is that if American cities were populated by white people they would be as safe as cities in China and Japan. There is one factor which accounts for the difference. Young black men. Young black men (15-34) are only 2% of the population but account for half of the nation’s homicides and other crime. A rate an astounding 50 times higher than that of the average American. As a result of that where white people decide to live, shop, vacation and even if they are willing to use public transit (especially women) has been for decades largely based on avoiding large groups of black people because of their perceived and actual tendency to engage in violence. The term white flight in housing patterns has always been used as a disparaging reference when, in truth, it means white common sense.
If you have watched The Sopranos you saw the Italian community begin to distance itself from the crime ridden Mafia. When does the apparent tolerance for crime within the black community which includes jury nullification of black criminal cases along with the acceptance by black school administrators of the disruption of classrooms by out of control individuals begin to end? Finally, when will fathers who fail to care for and love their children and especially their boy children be openly censured by black leadership? The young Chris Rock joked openly about these issues but he clearly now censors himself as does the entire black community.
Until and unless this problem is corrected America will not enjoy the safe urban experience that is common in Asia and Europe.