I don’t even think you can say that. I think they are worse because there is no core in the middle in those areas who still know right from wrong. There used to be a poor but stable middle black class and those that went bad knew they were wrong.
OK, from what I’m seeing these days, it seems that if there hadn’t been white community involvement (read: KKK), the blacks would not have behaved with some semblance of order even back then. I would love to be corrected on this, but it seems like since the klan was neutered, everything they warned against has come to pass.
The 'Rats are NEVER right.
I don’t disagree with what you write. My point was that LBJ’s prescription for the cure of inner city poverty was the same as today’s. Throw money at it. Money that was first stolen from productive taxpayers.