The ink was barely dry (so to speak) on "Way too many black kids, way too many crime guns", my post about the shootings in Pinellas County, when I received a complaint from another useful idiot that I put too much emphasis on the blackitude of the perps and their victims. Why did I keep pointing that out, they cried. Why couldn't I have been like Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, and used the word "black" (or "Black", as the wokesters write it now) only once?
So suppose I just posted a transcript of Sheriff Bob's remarks, with the word "black" deleted. You'd still have known, wouldn't you, that the Coley Bros were black, the minute you read their names -- Darcus and Damarcus.
Even if I had deleted their names -- called them "Defendant 1" and "Defendant 2" perhaps -- you'd still have guessed, from the mindless violence of shooting members of one's own family over a quarrel about who got dissed in the giving of Christmas gifts, that this could only have happened in the "Black community".
That's my point. The real problem which this story illustrates is not insufficient gun control, or the lack of help for those with mental "issues", or even the laxity of the liberal system of justice. It's ghetto culture. And yes, I do mean the black ghetto. You don't get stories like this out of Martha's Vineyard, or the Hamptons, or the `hoods of Crown Point and Bora Park, New York.
Not that there are no family squabbles -- even violent ones -- in those non-black ghettos. But there, the families are complete. Did you notice that in this story there's no mention of fathers being involved, or even present? Just a single mama and kids.
The problem of the single parent (i.e. mother) family has been discussed (and swept under the politically correct carpet) for decades, at least as far back as The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, published during the 1965 race riots.
In this controversial work, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson -- later to become a US Senator -- argued that the rise in black single-mother families was caused not by a lack of jobs, but by a destructive vein in ghetto culture.
The Moynihan Report was published in 1965. LBJ's "Great Society" was supposed to fix all that. How are things in the great liberal democracy (LOL) of America 58 years later? The black ghettos are bigger and meaner than ever. If you doubt me, try strolling through one of them.
Maybe you'd better drive, like the Griswolds in National Lampoon's Vacation. That movie appeared in 1983 -- 18 years after the Moynihan Report, and 40 years before the present day. Today you don't have to go into the `hood to risk getting shot. In every big Democrat-controlled (Canadians read: Liberal-cntrolled) city, you hardly dare ride the subway or go shopping in a mall, without taking your life in your hands.
That's how it is in Biden's Woke America. Black culture and the kind of lowlife scum it produces -- Hello George Floyd, wherever you are! -- are held up by the liberals for commiseration, even adoration, while their (mostly black) victims and other innocents can only keep their heads down and hope that some (probably white) cop or well-intentioned civilian will protect them.
After living the majority of my adult life in Northern CA and working in Oakland, I had the opportunity to flee to a job in flyover country. For 7 glorious years I almost never interacted, much less saw a Halfrican American. No threats of bodily violence or intimidation that was daily life on Oakland. Fast forward and I’m back in Bay Area and the racial makeup of my once tranquil city is turning decidedly darker. I will forgo the usual game of guess the race, but I bet you can guess the race. America doesn’t have a racism problem, it has a problem race. A race that I purposefully avoid at all costs.
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