Trump On Rising Crime In The Cities

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5 responses to “Trump On Rising Crime In The Cities”

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   CapitalistRoader

   July 10, 2016

   Obama had no problem finding motive in the South Carolina church murders, where a white guy killed nine black churchgoers:

   The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together.

   But the Dallas cop murders, where a black guy murdered five white police officers? The motive is a mystery:

   First of all, I think it’s very hard to untangle the motivers of this shooter. I’ll leave that to psychologists and people who study these kinds of incidents…I think the danger is that we somehow suggest the act of a troubled individual speaks to some larger political statement across the country.

   In both cases the shooter’s motive was racism. Pure and simple racism. But we have a POTUS who is quick to blame racism when the perp is white but in denial when the perp is black.

   It’s total BS. Obama started a race war in this country. He’s been a complete disaster as POTUS.

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   Simon

   July 10, 2016

   CapitalistRoader,

   Nixon’s motive was racism. It is now a 40+ year government program. The racist intent is hardly ever mentioned.

   “Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.” – John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.

   “[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks” Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, “The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.”

3. 

   Simon

   July 10, 2016

   “Obama started a race war in this country.”

   Well no. It was Nixon and if you go back Harry J. Anslinger.

   Obama has just added fuel to the fire. As has every President since Nixon.

   Conservatives act so surprised at the social, political, and economic results of a Prohibition law.

   Gang violence? Who could have expected it?

   General disrespect for all law? Who could have expected it?

   Break up of the Black family and a rise in welfare dependency? Who could have expected it? Demographics

4. 

   CapitalistRoader

   July 11, 2016

   From your link:

   Sending fewer black men to prison, in short, is not going to solve the problem by itself. Black families are in trouble for many reasons, among them labor-market changes, a legacy of welfare dependency, racial and class segregation, and the inversion of traditional values, both within the street culture of the ghetto and the larger, eroticized, commercial culture of the mass media.

   The Curley Effect writ large. It’s worked for going on 50 years. The race-baiter-in-chief ramped up the race war and it’s likely that Dems will continue their successful divide and conquer strategy. The idiotic drug war is only one piece of the puzzle. And important one, sure, but not the only one.

5. 

   Simon

   July 11, 2016

   The Curley Effect – http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf

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   My take on all this (to a friend a few days ago) – there will be a bidding war re:ending Federal Prohibition between Hillary and Trump.

   Hillary has signaled it with her mention of “Systemic Racism”. Trump has also signaled it with “much more to do”. Trump has to be more coy until he gets the nomination. The Republicans are the last stronghold of Prohibition (mostly).

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   And you are right. Just ending Prohibition will not fix things. However, it is a signal and a start.