If I may interject here.
I am in a biracial relationship. Not that this should matter, but it gave me the opportunity to ask my girlfriend's family all the taboo questions that white people are not allowed to ask black people about race in America and what it means to be black, and more.
Now, my girlfriend's mom is a direct descendant of a civil rights reformer. Not MLK or anyone known, but someone who grew up in segregation and actually did things to fight it.
I am saying all this to set the groundwork for what I'm about to say:
Black people commit more crimes for a whole host of reasons.
I grew up around affluent minorities in a very ethnically diverse area. So I never understood why there was a propensity for black people to commit crimes, since all the black people I knew were not sny more likely to commit a crime than all my white friends.
Wylted is right... Partly. There are socioeconomic factors at play here. But they are the RESULT OF THE PROBLEM. Not the problem itself.
There's four main things that cause black people to go into crime:
1. The media pushes stereotypes of black people being poor, oppressed, and criminals. The music industry also glorifies black people like Tupak and biggie who were gang leaders. If you don't believe me. Go to a news website and look up what they are saying about black people. You will see totally bullshit narratives such as:
- Black people are poor.
- Black people are oppressed.
- Black people commit crimes.
- Black people are uneducated.
- White people do not like black people.
- Black people are forced to become gangsters.
All of this is completely untrue. Oprah isn't poor, oppressed, or a criminal. Neither are virtually all black football players and basketball players. And, right now, most pop music artists making millions are black. In 2008 and 2012 America elected a Black President. The Supreme Court has two black justices. And there is a Congressional Black Caucus.
Kevin Hart is one of the riches comedians. Daymond John is a very wealthy investor and entrepreneur. Morgan Friedman is perhaps the most successful actor of all time. Whoopi Goldberg literally went on an antisemitic rant on live television and wasnt fired. Kanye West is the richest music artist in history.
Clearly black people are not all poor oppressed criminals who cannot escape poverty unless they commit a life of crime. All these extremely successful black people prove that nartative is a load of bullshit.
But that is the narrative spoonfed through the media (not just the news media. It's also in movies and music and even fucking podcasts now).
The problem is, black people, just like anyone else, blindly believe whatever the media tells them, even if it doesn't make any fucking sense. They see Oprah bitch and moan about being oppressed and think she is oppressed, even though she has her own television network, is a rather savvy investor, and has 20 billion dollars and a bunch of successful brands she started. How the flying fuck is that oppression?
But the thing is, when people begin to believe they are oppressed, poor, and criminals, they begin to live that way. Even though they can become the Oprahs, Kevin Harts, Morgan Friedmans, Daymond Johns, and Obamas of society.
However, this is only part of the problem.
2. The same racist assholes who owned slaves used their influence to shove black people onto horrible living environments and take away their money and destory their infrastructure clear through to the 1970s.
Anyone else remember Black Wall Street? In Tulsa, Oklahoma? It wasn't a ghetto in the 1920s. It was an up-and-coming center of industry where black people were getting rich. There were a whole host of affluent black people living there, and, if we'd have let it alone, racism probably would have ended about 50 years earlier than it did.
The corporations, at that time run by white supremacists, didn't like this. So they used eminent domain to take land from black people, turning the Greenwood District in Tulsa into the high-crime area it is today.
They did the same thing to Harlem in NYC.
In the south, white supremacists used their money and influence, along with the white supremacists in government, to shove black people into undeveloped neighborhoods. They also made sure not to build any infrastructure there, provide no public transportation, and not employ any of them so that they stayed poor. This went on clear into the 1970s and 80s.
Moreover, the corporations (that were run by the White Supremacists) would purposely only hire a single token black person, and then just leave the positions open indefinitely for all other minority positions to keep black people from getting jobs. This also happened clear into the 1980s.
Most of the corporate racism didn't end until the 90s. Same with the racist housing and infrastructure barriers. But eminent domain was largely unused as a means of control by the 1970s.
By the 1990s, most of these mechanisms of control were ended. And the corporations got younger people who did not agree with white supremacy on the boards, which allowed major changes to happen.
So this is why many black people (around 33%) live in high-crime environments in households that do not have college degrees or good paying jog or infrastructure.
And there is definitely residue from this. But, over time, if we remove problems 1,3, and 4, these areas will either become hubs of industry or completely barren wastelands where nobody lives.
3. Single-Parent Homes
Black people, up until the 1970s, did not grow up in single parent homes. There was a really strong community and family unit. But the white supremacists started paying black preachers boatloads of money to begin pushing for things that would destroy the family.
As you all know, growing up in a single-parent household with no father is a very high correlation with criminal activity. This is especially true for boys who have no father to show them how to be a good man. There's no positive role model, so some of these kids join a gang because the gang leader acts like a father figure to them. Or they want to become a gang leader because those are the people making money and getting women and in power where they live.
But, for the overwhelming majority of black kids who do not join a gang, not having a father can lead to psychological issues and problems with aggression.
This isn't to say it is impossible to grow up in a single-parent household and not commit crime, many black people achieve this, but it is just a factor that makes one more likely to commit crime.
4. Removal of Christianity
This one is the most important reason. Until the 1980s, black people were largely committed Christians who had socially conservative values. These values looked down upon crime, divorce, abortions, and more. They also promoted community, father figures, and neighbors helping each other out.
When the White Supremacists began bankrolling black pastors, these black pastors began hyping feminism, divorces, abortion, and government welfare instead of the values that were helping the community better themselves.
So it is the combination of all these things that are causing black people to commit more crimes. And they are all caused by racism from rich white people who make trillions on this sort of oppression in the form of welfare housing, diversity grants, monopolizing the infrastructure in poor black areas, and getting government grants to build mediocre infrastructure for black people. They have a huge financial incentive to keep the black community in the mindset of point one, in the locations of point two, in the marriages of point three, and the anti-Christianity of point four, because it breeds helpless-feeling individuals who think they need a bailout and someone else to take care of them to be "equal."
To solve these problems, we need to stop the systems of control.
In all of these systems, all a person needs to do is become enlightened to it and realize they are not hopeless. That their skin color and environment do not define them. And that staying out of crime will lead to a much higher chance of success in life. And instill an entrepreneurial spirit that empowers black people to realize their potential.
If we did that, then the systems of control would fall apart, and racism in America would end.
