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Kirata -> RE: Liberal delusions on racism (5/9/2014 2:55:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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Ah, well then, allow me to spell it out for you as if unto a child. Not all blacks live in our inner-cities (stop me if I'm getting ahead of you) or participate in the violent and dysfunctional sub-culture that exists there. Were you able to follow that?
So, now there is a 'not all black culture' in inner cities that is prone to violence?
Another reading comprehension failure joins the fray. I'll pass on that game.
Your first reference concludes that "violent crime will not decline until enough Americans realize that punitive measures have not worked" and are willing to give "the poor a chance at decent full-time jobs," all in all a fluffy bit of nonsense that totally ignores the cultural problem: crime earns status in the inner-city, and kids who want to get ahead by working hard in school are ridiculed and bullied.
As for your second reference, it's first summary points reads, "Wars are a major cause of poverty, underdevelopment, and ill health in poor countries," and it goes on from there to discuss the factors that predispose to war.
Four economic hypotheses have been put forward to explain intra-state wars, based on factors related to group motivation, private motivation, failure of the social contract, and environmental degradation.
You do realize that we are not talking about wars, right? We're talking about our inner-cities. In America, not Africa, and in the context of America's history of race relations. Fortunately, however, we know a good deal about the problem...
the racial gap in homicide offending cannot be explained entirely by the stark differences in poverty, unemployment, income inequality, and female headship currently observed in black and white communities...
One potential explanation suggests that the extreme and long-term social and economic disadvantage experienced by many urban blacks has resulted in cultural and normative adaptations that have removed important social constraints on violence (Anderson, 1994; Rose and McClain, 1990). While this position maintains the primacy of structural factors (e.g., socioeconomic deprivation) in determining aggregate rates of homicide, it also emphasizes the importance of crime-tolerant cultural responses that arise when deprivation is concentrated, extreme, and long term (Anderson, 1994; Rose and McClain, 1990).
This position is espoused in recent work by Sampson and Wilson (1995), who suggest that "in structurally disorganized slum communities it appears that a system of values emerges in which crime, disorder, and drug use are less than fervently condemned and hence expected as a part of everyday life"
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Subsequent research has supported the validity of the concentration hypothesis and the cultural deterioration that accompanies it (see here) and found that the racial differences in homicide rates largely disappear when that factor is controlled for.
However, once such a culture is in place it is difficult to dislodge. And I see little improvement in race relations resulting from whites trying to tell the residents of our inner-cities that their culture is dysfunctional. Fortunately, however, many have figured that out, some a long time ago, and it is they who must take the lead in their communities. I can think of nothing more insulting to any blacks with pride than this infernal notion that they need the help and guidance of white folk.
They are not stupid. They are not helpless. They are not children.
K.
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