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...”just proves that blacks have NO problem killing their own(As they do in Chicago every single day) and destroying their own community businesses.”
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Some random thoughts:

There are individuals of every “race” who have ‘no problem killing their own’. Black people killing their own is a class and sociological issue, not a ‘race’ issue.

I am a Caucasian, in a largely Black workplace; and I discussed this today with one of my Black male co-workers. He couldn’t believe the insanity of what the rioters were doing, and I’m confident that none of the other AA people that I know and work with every day would ever engage in this kind of activity.

According to Wiki, the 2010 census indicated that Ferguson’s population was over 21,000 people, and 67% were black. The people rioting were a very small percentage of that number.

Ill-raised, ignorant, and alienated people exist in every race and culture - and there are always power-greedy people willing to take advantage of them and stoke their grievances.

The problem is that academics, government and activists - even when they are sincere, and don’t have some political axe to grind - keep thinking that “programs” can somehow solve this; and too many of the people have been taught to think that handouts and special treatment can somehow repair things, and set them “free”.

But what Black Americans need most now, is something that the rest of us can’t give them. On their own, they have to shore-up their families; start getting and staying married; aspire to education and independence. That isn’t something that can be ‘given’ to anyone; it has to come from personal awakening and volition.

That ‘awakening’ has come to many of my acquaintance, who grew up in circumstances far less than ideal. It may sometimes seem like a very slow process; but I believe the ‘awakening’ process is accelerating.

(And who, after all, is responsible for a lot of this? In the 1950s, the black married folks had a lower divorce rate than white people did; their lives were largely family- and church-oriented. It was rich, elite WHITE people, who created the ‘sexual revolution’, a popular culture that celebrated licentiousness, and the welfare state; and they did it all for one kind of greed or another: money, or political power.)

One of Abraham Lincoln’s priorities after the Civil War, was education for the emancipated slaves; and education leads to opportunity.

He was killed; and it was a long time before we were really interested in that priority again.

(On another thread, I mentioned a few old-school liberals whom I respect; another is Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who saw what was happening and would continue to happen.)

-JT