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[–]AnarchySpeach 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Can't be too surprised. The war on drugs created a poverty stricken hell hole in majority black areas. Finally a movement starts that declares them exempt from the law. No shit they're gonna abuse their new power.

Guns out. Stand your ground (and if you can't you should move to a state that legally allows you to.)

Wait for them to kick in your door before opening fire. Don't drive anywhere you can't make a legal u-turn.

Stay safe out there. Don't engage. Don't enter areas they control. Wait them out. We have time on our hands. They don't. Eventually these wackos will run out of steam.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How was it the war on drugs made people poor rather than the highly addictive nature of crack itself?

[–]AnarchySpeach 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Both. Wrongful convictions, the addiction to a drug, bystanders killed by gangs and cops, and the economic collapse in the surrounding area that results from living in a crime infested shit hole where calling the cops could cause the drugged out gang dude next door to open fire under the false assumption that it involves them.

A lot of innocent people get caught in the crossfire. It's also hard to leave an area when nobody wants to buy your house because the neighborhood has gone to shit.

[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The war on drugs created a poverty stricken hell hole in majority black areas.

What utter tosh.

The poverty was caused by absentee fathers and single mothers. That's been shown to be a major cause big poverty in any community.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the democrats for the current welfare system. The black community is in a worse way now than it was back in the fifties.

And I'm quoting Thomas Sowell on that.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

caused by absentee fathers

most of which were from drug arrests, gang related deaths (most gangs deal in drugs), the lack of ability to gain sufficient money to raise the kids because of the lack of jobs in the surrounding area, and a small amount of "Wait, that's not my kid" from the Maury Lie Detector meme.

and single mothers.

You'd be surprised how many of them divorce their husband for bullshit reasons. lol

blame the democrats for the current welfare system.

I do. It's part of the problem for sure. Plenty of people abuse the system, those who play by the rules don't have enough to get by, and plenty of people are too stupid to realize the easiest solution would be to leave the area they're in.

The black community is in a worse way now than it was back in the fifties.

I agree.

[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm talking out of wedlock, which account for about 70% of black births.

Divorce is a very minor factor.

most of which were from drug arrests, gang related deaths (most gangs deal in drugs), the lack of ability to gain sufficient money to raise the kids because of the lack of jobs

The number of father's lost to death is numerically insignificant, most of the black dad's won't ever go to prison and those that do will mostly be in there for shorter terms.

This is almost always child abandonment on the part of the father.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for the link. None of this answers why it's higher. Saying it's higher "Because they're black" doesn't answer anything.

If the poverty was caused by them leaving, what caused the sudden spike in them leaving? The democrats have done horrible stuff, but I'm not seeing the correlation that they're causing them to flee.