Stay safe: get old, pale, and honest.
The PD publicizes a politically incorrect truth: that the best way to not be murdered in Cleveland is not to be a Black hoodlum:
Most of the victims of homicide in Cleveland look a lot like their killers.It's amazing that they'd come out and say that, but they have the research to back it up. I guess that the need to reassure white suburbanites so that they'll come to Cleveland trumps any offense the Black community might take. Not that one could blame them for being offended, given the tendency of some yutzes-of-pallor to blame genetics rather than underclass status and a dysfunctional subculture.They are criminals being killed by other criminals. The incidents almost always involve black men killing a man of the same race.
There's also some silly hand-wringing about how to get African-American youths not to become hoodlums: more cops, more rec centers. Uh-huh. Why not legalize drugs so that the black market and the crime it engenders disappears? Or quit subsidizing production of Daddy-less babies, who are more prone to becoming criminals? I guess maybe because those solutions involve less government.
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Posted by: Jo
Posted on: April 12, 2007 01:25 PM
Did you see the segment done by one of the Cleveland stations' news several years ago, detailing by use of pushpins the number of murders in various neighborhoods over a 5 year period? They used different colored pins for each year.
A few of the neighborhoods had pushpins on top of pushpins, forming a huge column on the Cleveland map over this one area that was about 5 square blocks. If nothing else, I know what neighborhoods *I'm* staying out of.
I really don't give a rat's ass about the predominant skin color in an area. I look at the crime rate.
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: April 12, 2007 09:18 PM
It's not unPC to say that, or at least not daringly so. You'll find plenty of blacks saying it too, and the more responsible they are (for instance, real ministers, and not Rev. Als), the more likely they are to say it.
Also, if Cleveland is like SoFla, quite a lot of the time it's not a hoodlum who's been killed, but either some young black guy who's gotten a hoodlum pissed off at him at a bar, or standing in the wrong place when a hoodlum tries to off someone other guy.
And that doesn't include the two blacks killed in the last few months by cops. One was a hoodlum being chased by cops; he had, it turned out, a stolen car but no weapon. The second was not a hoodlum, but was crossing the street just when an unmarked vehicle not equipped with sirens zoomed by in pursuit of some body else.
But for those who would think this is not PC, the agenda is probably not promoting big government, but promoting the idea that blacks are always powerless victims. Of course, for the Sharptons of this world, admitting that most violence against blacks is done by other blacks would mean having that much less to blame on Da Man, and of course Rev. Al has yet to find a problem he can't blame on Da Man.
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: April 12, 2007 09:43 PM
And having gone on to other blogs, I find that Tony Blair agrees with the PD:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5030
But notice how everyone else is running for PC cover.
Posted by: rightwingprof
Posted on: April 13, 2007 01:19 PM
Well, no, legalizing drugs would not affect the crime rate. Let's take prohibition. Even assuming that prohibition created a black market that allowed crime to flourish, the 21st amendment did not have an effect on mob crime. In fact, crime continued to rise, because the criminals merely found another market to exploit.
Drugs aren't the problem. A culture that idolizes criminals is the problem. Legalizing drugs won't have any effect on that.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: April 13, 2007 01:58 PM
I don't think it's "idolizing criminals", per se. I don't see a lot of glorifying mala in se crimes. Yeah, there are songs about busting a cap in somebody's face, but they're more about honor than about the naked joy of killing another human. And there are songs about partying. Rap isn't really different from 20s-30s race records in that regard; the language was cleaner back then, but there were a lot of songs about gambling, womanizing, drinking etc. And sometimes it was too much even back then; Georgia Tom Dorsey, hokum blues artist, became Thomas Dorsey, father of black gospel music.
But drugs are the problem. The post-prohibition era coincided with America's first national gun control act and with the war against marijuana. The Mob was ALLOWED to go into other businesses, because the BATF needed other work to do, now that Prohibition was over. In terms of risk/benefit analysis, drug running is the crime of most benefit to the small operator; numbers running is probably next, or maybe chop shops. What's left? Smuggling, contracts, organ fencing? High risk and high-investment, mostly. There's cigarette smuggling, but that's a special case of the drug deal, one which will take off as tobacco is outlawed. If you take profit out of personal transactions like drug-dealing, you reduce the scope for profit, and thus decrease the influence of organized crime.
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Posted on: April 13, 2007 02:03 PM
Rev. Al? Isn't he one of the two "nappy-headed [race] hos" we've heard about all week, amid discussion of the chaste and well-coiffed ladies of the Rutgers basketball team?
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: April 13, 2007 05:38 PM
Anonymous, in comparing Al Sharpton to prostitutes you greatly disparage the prostitutes. The prostitutes, after all, are workers providing a service of economic value. Sharpton is simply a racketeer shaking people down for protection money and the obligatory bow to his overblown ego.