Either that, or maybe they are correct and the government of New Jersey really is corrupt.
To paraphrase Golda Meir, “It will stop when they love their children more than they hate whites.”
This sort of thinking is precisely why minorities will remain in the same rut, economically and socially, in which they are currently find themselves.
Where is the help and guidance from their “benefactors” on the left? Really, it is difficult to believe so large a group of people could be so abysmally uninformed and blind to how they are being manipulated over so long a period of time.
Do you think this might have something to do with it?
Yes, and I'll propose that the "War on Some Drug Users" itself strikes at the heart of civil behavior. Combine that with local laws that throttle market-price housing, and small business activity. Add welfare payments that mute the pain of bad career choices and - voila.
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IMO the city should be Federalized, i.e.: Declare Martial Law, send in the Marines and a set up a Provisional Government like Iraq (just DON'T send Bremmer).
Better yet, send in the Corps of Engineers and just level the friggin place and start over (And send all 'miscreants' directly to GITMO).
“...crime and violence as acceptable alternatives to civilized living.”
This sounds like a good definition of barbarians. And that is exactly what they are. They choose to be barbarians. They do not want the responsibilities of civilization. This attitude has been imported from one particular continent.
It would take a military occupation to straighten out this mess.
“...people here complain that racial profiling, police corruption and the excesses of the war on drugs have made them suspicious of virtually any arm of government.”
Geeez! 26 words wasted when “It’s Whiteys fault!” would have said the same thing in less space.
With this kind of “ethic”, it’s no wonder that white flight takes place when the neighborhood becomes integrated. All you need do is hearken back to a time when the thug culture didn’t exist and notifying the police for the purpose of catching criminals wasn’t known as “snitching”.
Of course, you also have Chester, PA a few miles down river, to say nothing of Killadelphia (which at least has Center City, every nabe outside of CC being really bad) right across the river.
Camden has not even had liveable NEIGHBORHOODS since the mid-1960s. It has only gotten worse over the decades.
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