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Automatically assume some tired racist trope about "genetic predisposition to violence" which nobody here ever said but you.

I am sure the fact that rap videos, music, and associated culture which glorify drugs, drug dealing, sex with as many women as possible, guns and gang related violence etc. have absolutely nothing to do with the much higher crime rates and murder. Neither does the fact that over 70% of black homes dont have fathers in them. Its definitely someone elses fault.

Fwiw both my little sisters are black. They are both well rounded, functioning members of society and neither has ever been in any trouble etc. Love them both, and have tried to always be a positive role model and influence in their lives. They both graduated from Alcoa HS and have lived uneventful lives since then. They were both fortunate compared to my older sister and I. They were raised later in my parents lives when they had a little more money and lived in Alcoa near the HS which is a nice area. My older sister and I were raised on the West side of Charlotte which is much poorer and ghetto by comparison. My 2 little sisters listen to country and pop music and to hear them speak you'd think they were white. I grew up on the brown side of town and use far more slang when talking to my friends. We grew up on Biggie, 2pac, Outkast, DMX etc. In HS there was only 1 other white kid on the football team with me...he was a kid from the soccer team that punted and kicked. Lol. Totally different atmosphere from where my little sisters were raised. The environment inside the home was the same though. Thats what matters.

Based on my life experience, which is admittedly subjective... parents, environment and culture are a big factor in who a person grows to be. Skin tone has absolutely nothing to do with it. Who is raising them? Who do they look up to? How important are school and academics in the household? Who is checking homework, going to parent/teacher meetings, supporting/coaching sports? How often do they attend church and pray at home? Who is responsible for setting rules/boundaries? Who disciplines the children? Who models a life of service to family, church, community? These are the important questions. These are what determines the way a person turns out. Even though I grew up in a pretty bad area I still turned out OK because of the culture in my parents home. Parenting and having a good home is where the rubber meets the road. That has little to nothing to do with income or social status. It has nothing to do with the government. It has nothing to do with skintone. It comes from loving your children enough to put them, and whats best for them as your #1 priority after God. Lots of excuses and blame comes from the Leftists and their woke nonsense. It has crippled the black community and made them "victims". Actually fixing the problems will start and end at home IMO.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
The reason for these differences is the fact poor blacks tend to live in isolated densely populated ghettos in urban areas that are heavily segregated based on income while poor whites tend to be more dispersed. Poor white are more likely to live near affluent areas than middle class blacks.

Its this concentration of poor people into isolated ghettos that produces the proclivity to violence.
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Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods

History Recounts the history of policies and practices that built separate and unequal neighborhoods in the United States and the profound consequences for people’s quality of life and access to opportunity.
www.urban.org www.urban.org

I know you'd rather believe black people just have a genetic proclivity to violence that white people don't have but the truth is our skin color has nothing to do with gun violence. It's the conditions under which we live.
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Stop with the BS excuses. Black people choose their actions just like white people. The victim card is an earmark if the uneducated. Oh we are this way because of our conditions and circumstances. Boo hoo. Stop marginalizing and demeaning black people like they are some second rate people who are unable to make decisions. Good God.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
The reason for these differences is the fact poor blacks tend to live in isolated densely populated ghettos in urban areas that are heavily segregated based on income while poor whites tend to be more dispersed. Poor white are more likely to live near affluent areas than middle class blacks.

Its this concentration of poor people into isolated ghettos that produces the proclivity to violence.
www.urban.org

Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods

History Recounts the history of policies and practices that built separate and unequal neighborhoods in the United States and the profound consequences for people’s quality of life and access to opportunity.
www.urban.org www.urban.org

I know you'd rather believe black people just have a genetic proclivity to violence that white people don't have but the truth is our skin color has nothing to do with gun violence. It's the conditions under which we live.
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There are zero large cities in MS. Your dense population argument isn’t accurate.

There’s more white people in America living in densely populated cities overall

If we compare KY to MS, Kentucky has more cities, Kentucky has far larger cities, Kentucky has a greater overall population density. Yet approx 1/3 the homicide rate.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
The reason for these differences is the fact poor blacks tend to live in isolated densely populated ghettos in urban areas that are heavily segregated based on income while poor whites tend to be more dispersed. Poor white are more likely to live near affluent areas than middle class blacks.

Its this concentration of poor people into isolated ghettos that produces the proclivity to violence.
www.urban.org

Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods

History Recounts the history of policies and practices that built separate and unequal neighborhoods in the United States and the profound consequences for people’s quality of life and access to opportunity.
www.urban.org www.urban.org

I know you'd rather believe black people just have a genetic proclivity to violence that white people don't have but the truth is our skin color has nothing to do with gun violence. It's the conditions under which we live.
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Lol
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
The reason for these differences is the fact poor blacks tend to live in isolated densely populated ghettos in urban areas that are heavily segregated based on income while poor whites tend to be more dispersed. Poor white are more likely to live near affluent areas than middle class blacks.

Its this concentration of poor people into isolated ghettos that produces the proclivity to violence.
www.urban.org

Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods

History Recounts the history of policies and practices that built separate and unequal neighborhoods in the United States and the profound consequences for people’s quality of life and access to opportunity.
www.urban.org www.urban.org

I know you'd rather believe black people just have a genetic proclivity to violence that white people don't have but the truth is our skin color has nothing to do with gun violence. It's the conditions under which we live.
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this article maintains one of the stereotypical issues with these arguments. They want things to change and get better, but without anything changing. don't worry this isn't a racial issue, its just an attitude I have seen from every age, race, creed, income level, political stances etc. People want things to change and get better, but they don't want anything to change.

they want better neighborhoods with more money and amenities that will support better schools and so forth. but in the same paragraph demonize gentrification. if you don't want gentrification how is anything going to get better?

they point out connections to economic areas of opportunities, vehicular/public transit connections, and so forth. but guess what? When you get those, prices go up. even if you keep the same people there because the areas are more desirable.

they mention how minorities are often segregated, but then complain about richer, typically white, people moving into areas which can price them out.

they complain about lack of investment in new affordable housing, but complain about old houses being torn down and the use of imminent domain.
 
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LouderVol said:
this article maintains one of the stereotypical issues with these arguments. They want things to change and get better, but without anything changing. don't worry this isn't a racial issue, its just an attitude I have seen from every age, race, creed, income level, political stances etc. People want things to change and get better, but they don't want anything to change.

they want better neighborhoods with more money and amenities that will support better schools and so forth. but in the same paragraph demonize gentrification. if you don't want gentrification how is anything going to get better?

they point out connections to economic areas of opportunities, vehicular/public transit connections, and so forth. but guess what? When you get those, prices go up. even if you keep the same people there because the areas are more desirable.

they mention how minorities are often segregated, but then complain about richer, typically white, people moving into areas which can price them out.

they complain about lack of investment in new affordable housing, but complain about old houses being torn down and the use of imminent domain.
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The real "change" beings at home. If a family cannot fix their household from within, then the problems will be unleashed into the society in which they live. It really has nothing to do with race, poverty, or any other excuse. Apologies, I am coming into the back end of this discussion and probably missed a lot.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
The real "change" beings at home. If a family cannot fix their household from within, then the problems will be unleashed into the society in which they live. It really has nothing to do with race, poverty, or any other excuse. Apologies, I am coming into the back end of this discussion and probably missed a lot.
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D4H posted something and several people responded to different aspects. I believe some one else covered more of what you talked about in another post.

I have the first hand experience to post about the specifics of my post, and I didn't see anyone else addressing those particular issues.
 
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LouderVol said:
D4H posted something and several people responded to different aspects. I believe some one else covered more of what you talked about in another post.

I have the first hand experience to post about the specifics of my post, and I didn't see anyone else addressing those particular issues.
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I read his take earlier and he is wrong as usual.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
I read his take earlier and he is wrong as usual.
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like a lot of opinions whose end result is to rely or expect the government to fix things, his solution is that we just need to do "more". no real explanation of what that more actually, or why doing the exact same thing previously didn't work. the problem will just be solved if we throw some magical government money at the problem, because we haven't spent a dime yet.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
The real "change" beings at home. If a family cannot fix their household from within, then the problems will be unleashed into the society in which they live. It really has nothing to do with race, poverty, or any other excuse. Apologies, I am coming into the back end of this discussion and probably missed a lot.
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This post could be glued to the end of my post and nobody would think they had different authors. It would make a fitting closure or summary to my thoughts and life experience pertaining to the issue. FWIW, this is also exactly what Denzel Washington said when a reporter tried to drag him into the Floyd/BLM nonsense. The begin and end of these problems lies at home. Bill Cosby said the same thing 30 years ago and the Left torched him for it. Thomas Sowell has been telling anyone who will listen about home training and personal accountability since before I was born...and I am old. I think many on the Left know this is the truth, but they will continue endlessly the blame/victim nonsense forever as long as the black folks still line up to vote for them at the polls. It is shameful.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
We can always hope wherever that bastard is he’s suffering a thousand deaths daily! Hopefully Che Guevara and he take turns killing each other!
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One of these days I wish the commie leftoid kids would look up what Che thought of racial minorities.
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Apparently some of them don't even know who Che is...even though their kids wear his face on their T-shirts. Lol. Thought i was gonna have to teach history class up in here one day, but as usual my man Louder stepped in to teach the history lesson and all was right in the world. Fwiw, Louder is apparently a history/war buff and does an excellent job. He is sharp as a tack when it comes to remembering all the dates and what went down. The Che Guevara Tee has sadly been a staple at the "Angsty Teenager Store" since I was a dumb teenager...
 
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Vol8188 said:
There are zero large cities in MS. Your dense population argument isn’t accurate.

There’s more white people in America living in densely populated cities overall

If we compare KY to MS, Kentucky has more cities, Kentucky has far larger cities, Kentucky has a greater overall population density. Yet approx 1/3 the homicide rate.
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It's not just about cities versus rural areas. It's about being only surrounded by other poor people versus the fact thar poor whites tend to be more dispersed and not concentrated in slums and ghettos like black people.

When you concentrate poor people in certain areas that's what produces violence. We all know where the black hoods are in our cities. The equivalent of them (i.e. white ghettos) just don't exist in a similar scale. It's the lack of concentrated white ghettos filled with just poor white people that explains the lower levels of violence.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
It's not just about cities versus rural areas. It's about being only surrounded by other poor people versus the fact thar poor whites tend to be more dispersed and not concentrated in slums and ghettos like black people.

When you concentrate poor people in certain areas that's what produces violence. We all know where the black hoods are in our cities. The equivalent of them (i.e. white ghettos) just don't exist in a similar scale. It's the lack of concentrated white ghettos filled with just poor white people that explains the lower levels of violence.
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Lol. Making excuses and carrying water in your mo
 
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C-south said:
Lol. Making excuses and carrying water in your mo
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Or it's explaining why things are the way they are. I'm not excusing the violence. Black people gotta do better. But the reason we're prone to more violence in our community isn't because of a moral or character defect but is instead a product of circumstance. We have to overcome that circumstance. But nonetheless it's the circumstances that have created this problem more than anything else.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
I know you'd rather believe black people just have a genetic proclivity to violence that white people don't have but the truth is our skin color has nothing to do with gun violence. It's the conditions under which we live.
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You mention a genetic proclivity to violence based on skin color while also thinking solely with your skin. Fascinating.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
The reason for these differences is the fact poor blacks tend to live in isolated densely populated ghettos in urban areas that are heavily segregated based on income while poor whites tend to be more dispersed. Poor white are more likely to live near affluent areas than middle class blacks.

Its this concentration of poor people into isolated ghettos that produces the proclivity to violence.
www.urban.org

Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods

History Recounts the history of policies and practices that built separate and unequal neighborhoods in the United States and the profound consequences for people’s quality of life and access to opportunity.
www.urban.org www.urban.org

I know you'd rather believe black people just have a genetic proclivity to violence that white people don't have but the truth is our skin color has nothing to do with gun violence. It's the conditions under which we live.
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This is just uninformed but I must admit a creative attempt to explain it.

Crime is more of a product of character and the type of people, culture, and nurturing in your surroundings.
 
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