Episode 7: The Truth Behind Gang Violence.
You need to have (and it needs to begin with) public safety. The sidewalks need to be safe to walk down. The store needs to be safe to go to. People need to understand that they're not going to be shot when they're at the red light. Their kid’s not going to be killed in the baby seat while they're driving through an intersection. So until you get that under control, nothing else is going to happen.
So again, the average black American between the ages of 12 to 24 is 13 times more likely to be murdered than a white American.
Ninety percent of these shootings are done by the same demographic: young, 15 to 24-year-old primarily African-American fatherless children killing other young African-American fatherless children over issues related to status. Understand that that’s what’s going on.
People who say pointing that out is just a racist act…to me that's not even a logical statement because you're pointing out a fact. If there's true racism within the system, then we need to identify it. Let's find out where it is so we can remove it. I'm 100% on board with that goal. Unless someone else has another solution, the only way I know that we can do that is to look at the data and to control for different possible scenarios that would explain that.
The fact of the matter is you can control for education. You can control for household income. You can control for unemployment. You can control for all this and still see large discrepancies in the numbers between different racial groups in the United States as far as crime.
The only statistic that I've seen that actually matches, and when you control for it, makes sense as it relates to the violence we're seeing not just in the black community, but everywhere, all over the world, and especially in the United States, is out-of-wedlock birth rates. The moment you start controlling for that, then you're going to start to see those numbers correlate with the areas where all the violence is occurring.
In the black community, out-of-wedlock birth rate is over 70%. When we get into the neighborhoods in Chicago and Baltimore, it's closer to 95%.
These are young black women having young kids. Those kids grow to the dangerous age of 12 to 19 where we all like to get in trouble. There's no male mentors or fathers around. They form gangs and they shoot each other over petty disputes related to status.
This isn't happening because of hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. This is happening because somebody stepped on somebody else's shoe, or something like that, and the next thing you know there's going to be a drive-by shooting.
The only thing that's going to stop that short-term is putting more police in those neighborhoods to save lives. That's the only thing that's going to stop that.
Long-term, we have to be thinking about how we can disincentivize young people from having kids when they're not married, when they're still in high school. When they're 12 to 18. That's the problem that needs to be addressed. It's also something that nobody wants to talk about in the United States. There's a lot of lying, and a lot of obfuscation around it, but the numbers are very clear. Again, I encourage everybody to go and take a look at it themselves.
When you talk about the reasons why the out-of-wedlock birth rate is so much higher, that's something I think we as a society and people much smarter than me need to sit down and really assess and try and figure out what led to that. But what I can tell you is it wasn't always that way. The out-of-wedlock birth rate in the black community was actually almost the same and in some cases a little bit higher than white Americans up until about 1963. Something happened around 1963 where they started to diverge. The out-of-wedlock birth rate rose across the board in the white community, but especially in the black community. If you go back prior to 1963, you don't see these kind of numbers and you also don't see this kind of violence and this kind of crime. Once we go past 1963, that's when it skyrockets.
What happened in 1963 that explains this? I'm sure it's a complicated problem. It's probably going to admit to more than one answer, but it is something that we need to look at. And one of the things I think we need to look at is whatever economic incentives, that might have been well-intentioned, were put in place which caused this problem to happen. If we don't look at that and we repeat that same mistake once again, there's going to be a lot more violence and a lot more innocent victims shot and dead.
This is a great demonstration of why the wail of "systemic racism" is not just useless, not just intellectually dishonest, but actively contributes to the deaths and suffering of black Americans.
Here's what might be the most perverted thing of all, though: this is already well explored and well understood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_absence#United_States
In 2005, the United States Department of Health and Human Services reported that the average experience of the American teenager includes living in the absence of their father. This leads to multiple negative impacts on youth in which 85% are reported to have behavioral issues (Center for Disease Control); 71% of high school dropouts and teen moms come from fatherless homes, which is 9 times the national average (National Principals Association Report); 85% of all children who show behaviour disorders come from fatherless homes, which is 20 times the national average (Center for Disease Control); 85% of youth in prison come from fatherless homes, which is 20 times the national average; (Fulton County, Georgia, Texas Department of Correction), and 63% of youth suicides are of children who come from fatherless homes, which is 5 times the national average (US Department of Health/Census).
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bs-xpm-2014-10-08-bs-ed-child-custody-20141008-story.html (Archive: https://archive.vn/TkXoW)
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2002/03/custody
The U.S. is screwing around with "systemic racism" when the effects of single parent childhoods - and fatherlessness in particular - is already known. From high school drop out rates to crime to suicide and even through to early menarche - early onset of puberty and menstruation in girls, thereby moving their reproductive window forward and increasing the likelihood of the cycle perpetuating - are all known to be correlated to out-of-wedlock and single parent situations, and particularly paternal alienation. It's also known that black Americans tend, on average, to be more religious.
From the Baltimore Sun link:
"... three separate and independent groups of experts reviewed decades of child development research. They found that after parents separate or divorce, children do much better with shared parenting — joint custody — on multiple measures of wellbeing than with single parenting. Yet in more than eight out of 10 custody cases today, one parent (usually the mother) is awarded sole guardianship."
But nobody wants to talk about or deal with this. U.S. society is pretty much actively involved in a program of deliberately ignoring the reality. If black lives mattered to self-stylanted "antiracists," they would want to tackle the reality. They don't.
Because reality doesn't lend itself to hashtag campaigns and pithy slogans. Nor is it conducive to maintaining political and social influence; if god kills the devil, you can stop tithing and you don't have to come back to church next week.
This is how wokeness kills. Not by going around and murdering people. But by deflecting and distracting away from reality towards bogus academic grievances and god-of-the-gaps analyses, and vilifying those who notice the Emperor has no clothes.
