Walter E.Williams:
During the weekend of Aug. 4-5 (and the preceding Friday night), 12 Chicagoans were shot dead, and 62 others were shot and wounded, the Chicago Tribune reported (https://tinyurl.com/yde7jb83). Before last week’s mayhem, 1,718 Chicagoans had been shot since the beginning of the year, and 306 had been murdered. Adding to this tragedy is the fact that Chicago’s clearance rate is less than 15 percent. That means that in more than 85 percent of Chicago’s homicides, no suspect is charged. Chicago is by no means unique in this lawlessness. Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis and some other major cities share high rates of homicides.
It’s not just shootings and homicides that negatively impact the overwhelmingly law-abiding black residents of these cities. In addition, there are sky-high rates of burglaries, rapes and property destruction. The schools are notoriously bad. City budgets face shortfalls. Residents deal with deteriorating city services. All of this causes mass exoduses from these cities by their most capable people.
Ordinary decency demands that something be done to address the horrible conditions under which so many black Americans live. White liberals, black politicians and sports figures focus most of their attention on what the police do, but how relevant is that to the overall tragedy? According to Washington Post data, as of July 9, 626 people had been shot and killed by police this year. Of that number, 114 were black. Last year, 987 people were shot and killed by police, of which 223 were black (http://tinyurl.com/ycn77jkj). To put police shootings in a bit of perspective, in Chicago alone in 2017, there were 674 homicides, almost 80 percent of whose victims were black. It would appear that if one is truly concerned about black deaths, shootings by police should figure way down on one’s list — which is not to excuse bad behavior by some police officers. more here
What a tribute to our recent president, a scion of Chicago.
Gee Wally, somebody aughta pass a law…
It might be safer for a guy like me to walk around Baghdad (keeping my mouth shut) than to stroll through Chicago.
Both are no go zones for white males.
Where are all the Anti-American Millionaire NFL Kneelers?
Damn sure aren’t even close to a black neighborhood in any of these democrat controlled cities.
Cato is right…the take-a-knee-grows are suspiciously silent about these REAL tragedies happening in the black neighborhoods.
Is it too much to hope that people will finally see the glaringly obvious commonality in all of these third-world like shithole cities; decades of democratic control!
Don’t worry the new breed of socialist progressives will fix everything. Hey Bernies running again. We’re saved.
Just more of the herd self-culling. Why does everyone report this as if it is a BAD THING?
Do you think I could wear a MAGA T-shirt in Kabul if the thought it meant MAKE AFGHANISTAN GREAT AGAIN?
Again, Chicago? No Effin way.
Still have enough people to staff the government?
Then not enough yet.
” take-a-knee-grows” ROFL
If it weren’t for the fact that they’re killing innocent people, I don’t care if they all shoot each other.
The ultimate problem is/are kids being raised without dads. Welfare made it possible to live without the father in the home, and probably encourages it indirectly. Thanks LBJ!! Now you have males who never had a dad so they have no skills as a father, that are impregnating girls. The offspring of these unions have no chance. The sperm donors have no fathering skills to live by or to pass on to the next generation. The cycle perpetuates itself, and the outcome of this is heavily black cities that have horrible crime, murders, rapes, etc. It’s not (just) a problem brought on by Democrats, blacks, or leftism, although the leftism highly exacerbates it. It’s a problem of no morality and none imparted by dad.
Somebody like Savage (has the balls to do it) or Limbow or Hannity should set up a “National Death Clock” and a death pool and a Las Vegas betting line and pump it up every day on their shows. Imagine how outraged the hysterical leftist scum would be over that, although not bothered at all about the actual dead bodies…. lol. Id love it. Make Shitcago a daily national laughing stock we could all win money off of.
Maybe if those football players weren’t such dimwhits, they’d take a knee when they heard a rap song or a democrat giving a speech and stand proudly for the national anthem like patriotic Americans.
Generations of blacks raised in welfare ghettos and nurtured by uncivil rights communist organizers have acquired a basic mentality which is killing based. No matter what the instigation for retaliation, the ultimate controlling motive is to kill. Once begun the demon driven attacker can’t and won’t stop whether it is in resisting a cop or attacking a black or white victim. Think about football players hard tackling in a game. If it weren’t a controlled game, no doubt players could be killed in play. Inside the mind is programmed to kill. Must remember that “unarmed” does not mean “not dangerous.” Michael Brown was a huge bodied felon who tried to kill the cop with his mass body weight. Self defense with a gun is a legitimate function for survival.
It was a little tough at first, but giving up the NFL is far easier than giving up drinking or smoking.
As a matter of fact, it isn’t hard at all.
Each NFL team represents a big city, not a region, which is what I once believed. I’d be hard pressed to walk through a single one of those cities without armed security. My electoral map T-shirt that identifies the red states as America and blue states as Dumbfuckistan would likely get me killed in any NFL city.
PHenry – very good, I’m with you.
@Cynic August 15, 2018 at 6:51 pm
> It’s a problem of no morality and none imparted by dad.
So, if the Jews had just manned up, the Nazis would have been fabulous?
It’s a theory. I’m not saying it’s a good theory. But, it is a theory.