what a disaster Wrote:
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> This incident reminds me of R.Dwayne Betts' book,
> A Question of Freedom, a autobiography about a 16
> year old Prince Georges County teenager who
> committed a carjacking at the Springfield Mall,
> earning 9 years in the Virginia prison system
> (including Red Onion!).
>
> Betts' crime, like the ones these 4 are accused
> of, was maddeningly stupid in terms of risk and
> return. Carjacking? A 30 minute joyride is the
> only benefit. Abducting while armed a fifteen
> year old kid for sneakers? What benefit? Even
> dumber than carjacking. Yes, yes, I understand
> the presumption of innocence. But very few would
> take the bet that these guys will not be heading
> to Virginia state prison soon, serving sentences
> that Betts refers to football scores in length.
>
> At some point the media and our institutions
> (including public schools) must cease its denial
> about what is happening in so many black
> communities. The violent crime rate is off the
> charts, the educational achievement and drop-out
> levels are both heartbreaking and disastrous at an
> economic and person level, and even good people
> not inclined to racism have any number of
> legitimate fears, and this leads only to racial
> isolation and a worsening of the dysfunctions at
> hand. And fathers are virtually non-existent in
> some communities.
>
> I don't think there is an easy solution for any of
> this, especially from the political perspective.
> But what has happened since the Civil Rights era
> has been exactly the opposite of what has been
> expected. At a minimum, our politicians should use
> their offices as a bully pulpit, and be very open
> on the problems in a significant number of black
> communities. This incident, while small, is so
> absurdly irrational that it begs for more candor
> than exists today. One cannot describe how stupid
> the crime allegedly committed here is. And all
> for??
Say it brother.
But as long as you have politicos and a media who blame stupid crimes like this on racism or lack of financial opportunity- nothing will change.
The black community should be dominant in fields that immigrants have all but locked down. Instead they are fed BS by race hustlers that is only solidified by a white media too timid to tell the truth or hold a minority community to any standard.
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