But we can never have that discussion. I get attacked for suggesting that the high crime rates should be addressed instead of the hyper focus on police. Granted police accountability is important but that is a symptom of a larger issue. Also wow unto anyone who suggests that a high rate of out of wedlock births may not be a good thing.
The out of wedlock births isn't helped with the fact that an enterprising young couple can choose to not get married, not ever officially live together, or have the father as officially being the father. Bringing the benefit that the state now has to support the "single mother" with the raising of her child by giving her welfare subsidies and such. Then because there's no true deep ties holding the couple together it's easy to separate when things get hard. I've seen this myself with a few black couples I've known. Smart people playing the system to their own immediate benefit.
Now keep this going on for a few generations and you reach where we're at now where the "family" is meaningless, the fathers can be replaced easily and so have minor ties, and the raising of children is seen more as a community thing than a family thing.
It's astounding to me how the issue of police misconduct got turned into a racial wedge issue. Holding police to account for their bad behavior seems like the sort of thing everyone could get behind but then they go and use it to pit us against each other.
Now we can't have police reform or have the discussion about demographically disproportionate crime rates so neither will be addressed as we all march into dystopia.
Amplified? More like continued business as usual, and it's not their fault the black and brown communities are so crime-ridden.
But we can never have that discussion. I get attacked for suggesting that the high crime rates should be addressed instead of the hyper focus on police. Granted police accountability is important but that is a symptom of a larger issue. Also wow unto anyone who suggests that a high rate of out of wedlock births may not be a good thing.
The out of wedlock births isn't helped with the fact that an enterprising young couple can choose to not get married, not ever officially live together, or have the father as officially being the father. Bringing the benefit that the state now has to support the "single mother" with the raising of her child by giving her welfare subsidies and such. Then because there's no true deep ties holding the couple together it's easy to separate when things get hard. I've seen this myself with a few black couples I've known. Smart people playing the system to their own immediate benefit.
Now keep this going on for a few generations and you reach where we're at now where the "family" is meaningless, the fathers can be replaced easily and so have minor ties, and the raising of children is seen more as a community thing than a family thing.
You nailed it. That is our sad reality
It's astounding to me how the issue of police misconduct got turned into a racial wedge issue. Holding police to account for their bad behavior seems like the sort of thing everyone could get behind but then they go and use it to pit us against each other.
Now we can't have police reform or have the discussion about demographically disproportionate crime rates so neither will be addressed as we all march into dystopia.
That’s what happens when you call statistics racist and aren’t allowed to use actual data.