I like Walter Williams. He writes some very interesting stuff.

 

Black Self-Sabotage - Walter E. Williams - Page 1

 

First, weaken the black family, but don't blame it on individual choices. You have to preach that today's weak black family is a legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and racism. The truth is that black female-headed households were just 18 percent of households in 1950, as opposed to about 68 percent today. In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the black marriage rate was slightly higher than that of whites. Even during slavery, when marriage was forbidden for blacks, most black children lived in biological two-parent families. In New York City, in 1925, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were two-parent households.

 

Along with the decline of the black family comes anti-social behavior, manifested by high crime rates. Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Using the 94 percent figure means that 262,621 were murdered by other blacks. Though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population, they account for more than 50 percent of homicide victims. Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate is six times that of whites, and in some cities, it's 22 times that of whites. I'd like for the president, the civil rights establishment, white liberals and the news media, who spent massive resources protesting the George Zimmerman trial's verdict, to tell the nation whether they believe that the major murder problem blacks face is murder by whites. There are no such protests against the thousands of black murders.

Always loved Walter Williams, very people make as much sense as he does.

There are protests and rallies done in places like Chicago quite frequently. The media just doesn't cover it.

 

Quite frankly, black on black crime has been an issue for decades. Decades. Nobody has cared for decades. Why would anyone care now?

Very sad state of affairs. I don't know how to fix it but I hope people much smarter than I am figure it out, and quick.

There are protests and rallies done in places like Chicago quite frequently. The media just doesn't cover it.

 

Quite frankly, black on black crime has been an issue for decades. Decades. Nobody has cared for decades. Why would anyone care now?

Not true. Chuck D and Public Enemy recorded half their music about it.

There are protests and rallies done in places like Chicago quite frequently. The media just doesn't cover it.

 

Quite frankly, black on black crime has been an issue for decades. Decades. Nobody has cared for decades. Why would anyone care now?

Exactly his point.

Not true. Chuck D and Public Enemy recorded half their music about it.

 

That's my point. They haven't been relevant since 1991. :lol:

Exactly his point.

 

How is 'Black Self-Sabotage' related to media coverage? Wouldn't it just be media sabotage?

That's my point. They haven't been relevant since 1991. :lol:

 

PE is ALWAYS relevant.

There are protests and rallies done in places like Chicago quite frequently. The media just doesn't cover it.

 

Quite frankly, black on black crime has been an issue for decades. Decades. Nobody has cared for decades. Why would anyone care now?

 

I read WW a lot. He takes issue with the media for how they cover things, but his biggest issue is with the so-called leaders in the black community. How much time have the good reverends and other people of spent on a single polarizing incident TM & GZ, instead of focusing on the real problems.

 

He would tell you that they choose things that devide us, opposed to doing things to try to unite us.

I read WW a lot. He takes issue with the media for how they cover things, but his biggest issue is with the so-called leaders in the black community. How much time have the good reverends and other people of spent on a single polarizing incident TM & GZ, instead of focusing on the real problems.

 

He would tell you that they choose things that devide us, opposed to doing things to try to unite us.

 

No argument from me there. Of course I don't consider the good reverends leaders of the black community.

No argument from me there. Of course I don't consider the good reverends leaders of the black community.

 

Unfortunately a lot of people do, and they wield a lot of power over where the media puts it's focus.

Always would read WW in the Sunday Enquirer, the man just makes too much sense.

Why did it become like this? What is the reason black on black crime is so much higher now than in the past?

Why did it become like this? What is the reason black on black crime is so much higher now than in the past?

 

Are you sure it is higher? I can't tell if it is worse or better. I remember it was really bad when I was growing up. Seems calmer now.