Conservatives have never liked Rahm. And now he has stepped away from liberal groupthink and has finally stated a simple truth. That the bloodbath and crime wave in Chicago is not due to racism or Po-leece brutality. The issue is a lack of values. White privilege is not the cause. It’s the drugs, the high dropout rate, the breakdown of family and the idiotic no snitch code of ‘honor.’ In other words, values. Rahm gets nearly everything wrong. Maybe conservatives should give him a little credit when he gets something right?
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Wow. Nobody disagrees? Are liberals starting to get it too? Are they finally ready to admit that racism is not what is causing poverty and crime?
Just as a point of information, their are 24 cities in this country that are more bloodbathy than Chicago is. I wonder why conservatives started focusing on Chicago during the last administration.
That said, I do think that the lack of stable family structure is probably the #1 cause of a host of the problems that plague this country.
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I don’t know what the answer is. If a child was raised in that environment with little supervision, guidance and parental involvement. He is doomed from the start. Very sad. But I’m not sure what can be done. Maybe the Sharpton’s and the Jackson’s should focus a little energy to this issue. But they won’t.
Who’s in charge of fixing the poor white people? There’s more of them. You should be concerned. Those are your people. Salt of the earth. Heartland. Culture. Other stupid ■■■■■
You made an incorrect assumption. I am concerned about both. The same applies to both. The only difference is that nobody is trying to convince poor white people that they are poor and will remain poor because of racism. That and the high murder rate in non white poor areas. Other than those two issues, they are exactly the same. No difference.
Based on what I experienced with my right wing family members. Their kids get raised in 2 parent homes well 2 grand parent homes.
Too many what I call Facebook parents now. They come visit their kids for the day then post pictures on Facebook on how rewarding it is to be a parent.
All the rest of the days posting right wing memes and attacking minorities for not taking responsibility.
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So you don’t care that there are more poor, white people, you just care that poor black people are supposedly being told something that you don’t like? Ok. Makes perfect sense. And I really get your concern about black people being killed. I really do.
Your stats are correct, I don’t think however it’s getting attention solely because of Obama. Seventy people shot in a weekend in one city is always going to make a splash in the U.S. media who runs 24/7 horrible stories.
Well it is news when a U.S. city becomes as dangerous as Afghanistan. I think it’s just a really bad idea to convince people that they have to accept this and it’s all because of racism. Nothing to do with personal accountability.
Probably not. I think that fact that we rank first in total number of murders also plays a large part. However, it’s a bit disingenous. It’s like comparing the total number of murders in Texas to the total number of murders in the rest of the United States. The population of each area is a huge part of the equation.
Chicago is not at all as dangerous as Afghanistan. Please stop.
Please stop? Why on Earth would I do that? I mean a classic liberal such as Rahm is saying it’s a mess, we should believe him. It’s time for people in charge of these cities to start being proactive. Finding solutions. That would be a heluva lot better than constantly screaming racism. Rahm is on the right track.
You are statistically correct and it is a bit disingenuous comparing larger cities to smaller cities in total numbers.
It seems though when it comes to murders, mass shootings, and terrorism the body count or in this case the amount shot is what sweeps the headlines. I don’t think that will change in the age of 24/7 media and sensationalism. There all chasing clicks and ads and 70 shot sells better than 5 shot. It sounds cruel, but I think I am not to far from the truth.
Doesn’t sound cruel, sounds like how it is.
Yep. IMO since the cost of uneducated adults is very high to society over the life of that individual, I propose that those on government assistance, receive a bonus for their child having an excellent report card. If teachers didn’t become corrupt and just dole out good grades, I think we could turn this country onto a better path with in about a decade. The parents must be engaged and focused on their child receiving an excellent education. I believe this would help many things and have a positive ripple affect felt by all…and not just the recipients.
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In order to succeed. You must prepare yourself for life. Without parental guidance, this is nearly impossible. They are born into an environment where there is little hope for escape. Racism should be the last of their worries. Not the first.
Worst casualty day I’m seeing is 37? And they had to shoot down a helo.
I’m from Chicago and no one gave a damn until Obama was elected. Hell Gary Indiana was the murder Capitol for a bit no one said diddly squat
While there is naturally a bit of truth to this, you’re still missing the mark by a mile. You just don’t know the history or the context of the situation.
I mean, the Sixties dude? Welfare? Really? There wasn’t anything else going on in black communities of a negative nature? Institutional racism? Segregation? The civil rights movement and the later rise of black nationalism in response to the perceived failures of nonviolent protest?
This also ignores the facts like, for instance, public housing in the 50s and 60s was the best living conditions black folk who were either emigrating from sharecropper farms from the south or had been living in literal shantytowns with conditions that put even the worst modern goods to shame has ever seen.
Or any analysis that wholly ignores the crack epidemic sweeping through starting in the mid 1980s and just completely wrecking most of the social structure that existed. I’m just old enough to remember when there was still a real community spirit in the hood, of the “your neighbor will whoop you or send you home to get whooped if they catch you ■■■■■■■ up” variety.
Then all of a sudden, the crack trade is worth so much money that killing for it seems almost reasonable, it’s such a retail business (as opposed to the more niche markets of heroin, powder coke, etc.) that there are drug corners popping up anywhere that suburbanites make their rush hour commutes, there’s oodles of crackheads who will steal anything that’s not nailed down including your sneakers and gold fillings on top of the more professional bad guys, people’s parents are getting hooked and no one has ever seen drugs and drug dealing have such severe societal consequences so quickly ever before this.
And last but not least, the cops and government in general were so unprepared and underfunded for this happening that civil order almost totally broke down, they lost total control of the people and the streets, and it would be years before they made a serious stab at for fixing that. Until then, we were just left to our own devices, mostly.
