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originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: Tardacus
a reply to: Edumakated
I suspect that`s why they allow it to continue, to let the bad guys keep killing each other off and a %10 collateral damage rate of innocent people is acceptable to them.
the sad part is that those people were fooled into believing that the liberals actually cared about them and would make Chicago safe.
The problem is they don't kill each other off... They don't die, they multiply.
There is a cycle that is very hard to break once someone gets trapped in it. Basically, it goes something like this...
Teenager or young adult has a baby. Usually unexpectedly. The baby's father wants nothing to do with baby mama. The parents never marry and father is only involved in child's life on the periphery. Neither parent is usually the brightest bulb on the tree. They usually have poor paying jobs if any at all. They move to poorer neighborhoods. School suck, but rent is cheap. The entire community is filled with poorer people who all have made bad decisions - drug addicts, homeless, hustlers, and other baby mamas just trying to get by.
Since no fathers are around, the boy grows up with no real male discipline. Their father is the streets. Hanging out on street corners. Schools suck and kid barely can read. All he can do is hang on the corner. If he wants to make money he has to hustle. He joins a gang for protection. Starts carrying an illegal firearm. Gets caught up in legal system. No he can never really get a decent job. Slips up and gets his hood rat girlfriend pregnant at 16 years old.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat...
This cycle has been going on for damn near 40 years now. It started with the War on Poverty pushing black men out of the home to be replaced by government through the welfare state. Black out of wedlock birth rates were less than 25% back in the 60s. Daniel Moynihan warned about it then and what would result if the black family was broken. Out of wedlock birth rate now is 73%. Probably closer to 100% in certain neighborhoods.
We basically have a situation now with a bunch of young, feral males running around with zero home training and guidance. All their guidance comes from the streets. Throw in a saturation of cooning and buck dancing, thug celebrating hip hop brain washing these kids 24/7, it is no surprise what is going on.
Then you throw in patronizing white liberals who encourage this type of behavior with progressive policies and then combine it with the Uncle Tom House slave black leadership like your Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons and the rest of these cooning leaders who basically get to enrich themselves off the misery of the community they are supposed to represent you get the poor conditions of the black community in every major Democrat controlled city across the US.
Crime rates for all demographics, including African Americans, are at an all-time-low
originally posted by: shooterbrody
Crime rates for all demographics, including African Americans, are at an all-time-low
In chicago? I think you are mistaken. Our company had meetings scheduled near chicago this year. No one was allowed to attend and the meetings for next year have been moved. Would you send your employees there?
The loss of the Microsoft Ignite conference, which was scheduled for May before it relocated to Atlanta, cost the city nearly 89,000 room nights and some $56 million in economic impact.
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: Edumakated
www.chicagotribune.com...
The loss of the Microsoft Ignite conference, which was scheduled for May before it relocated to Atlanta, cost the city nearly 89,000 room nights and some $56 million in economic impact.
Yeah I guess Microsoft is "misinformed" as well?
And no comment from you about the actual crime statistics?
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
It truly amazes me that inner city minorities will vote for free stuff even if it means living with one of the highest crime rates in the country. When pressed for answers they trot out the same old b s every time. Its sickening. "There are no jobs in our neighborhood. We have to join gangs..."
themselves to get up early, drag their tired butts out of bed, hustle out the door and drive for an hour to where the jobs are. I don't care what part of Chicago you live in, if you drive for just one hour in any direction, except into the lake, you will either be in a place where there are jobs or you will have passed a place where there are jobs.
This is a prime example of the bizarre democrat sense of entitlement. "Bring me a high paying job..." No. Go find one yourself. You aren't that special. No one has to bring you a damn thing. How about this...if you didn't rob and burn down the businesses in your neighborhood every time you didn't get your way maybe there would be more jobs in your neighborhood. Ever think of that?
Black people killing black people by the dozens. Where is Jesse Jackass and the rainbow coalition? Where is Al Sharpton? Where are all the BLM protesters? Oh yeah, its only an issue when a white person kills a black person. Black on black murder, the highest cause of death in inner city areas, should be ignored. We don't want to draw attention to the savage way we treat each other and the complete and total lack of respect for human life we share. No. We only talk about that when a white person does something wrong. Then we play the race card and the victim card and demand more free stuff that created this suck society in the first place. And if you don't give it to us - you are racist.
originally posted by: Edumakated
I've lived in Chicago almost 20 years now. I am as critical about the gun violence as anyone. However, the reality is that the gun violence is largely a non-issue unless you reside in one of the third world neighborhoods affected by it on the west and south sides.
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: Edumakated
No tourist would ever accidentally make their way to these neighborhoods unless you were lookign to score some Heroin or other nefarious business.