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This focus on Toya Graham is a little out of place.

In a single moment, she saved one of her son’s from being a part of the problem. But there is more to it than that. What of her life and how is it that she has six kids (potentially from as any fathers) and yet she had reasonably nice clothes, tattoos, her nails done, her hair done, and it doesn’t appear that she’s missed to many meals.

It begets the questions that need to be answered.

What becomes of Ms. Graham after her litter of children leave home?

What becomes of those fatherless children after they leave home.

What sort of families with her son(s) sire if they live long enough?

And finally, how is it possible for this woman to procreate in this manner. Each of her offspring are grist for the mill of violence and criminality that passes for culture in the black areas of the cities.

While a single instance of normal parenting has gained her five minutes of fame as it were, one has to ask why did her son believe that participation in a domestic terrorism event, was the proper action.

I would say that Baktimore has slid down hill in the last 20 years. I remember going to the Inner Harbor and bar hopping in Fell’s point back in the late 80’s. If I were to take my family to the Inner Harbor today, it would have to be in the daytime and I would definitely exercise my unfair privilege to carry. No way I would go at night.

“So, if we want to help, let’s start a national – a worldwide – movement to create the tools and environment to help mothers like Toya Graham help their kids.

We can do that. And we can have an impact.

Even if it’s one mom at a time.”

Good for her, and I’d invite her and her worthless little b#$tard son over for dinner, because I respect the hell out of her for having the guts to do what she did.

But none of it will be fixed until BLACK MEN become MEN and act like it.

The CVS (and the other 14 buildings) that burned down didn’t have anything to do with the Freddy Gray issue. Nor did the more than 140 cars and trucks that were torched.

No bias here...
Until the mask of impartiality slipped...

The cars and trucks were torched (by the police?,) but apparently the 14 buildings just spontaneously caught on fire...

If a lack of jobs is the problem, then create more jobs for young Black kids who have no way to make a buck except selling drugs to one another? Then utilize the tools that governments have available – including the tax code – to create an economy that is growing.

How do you do that? Create jobs for thugs who have been entitled all their lives, are uneducated, undisciplined, unmotivated, and literally unable to do anything useful?

Has there been a new Federal position of "Job Czar Fairy" that I somehow missed?

Incidentally no federal regime can "create jobs" (the depression exception was possible only because people actually could, and were able and willing, to work.)

That magic no longer exists.