Walter Williams tackles
the elephant in the room on crime
American Thinker,
by
John Dale Dunn
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
10/26/2019 7:06:38 AM
Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the years. This past week, I saw and read his essay on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going was the article by Matthew DeLisi of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mathman 10/26/2019 7:13:21 AM (No. 217893)
These observations show why Williams is "Black by popular demand."
What a gift the man is!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
philsner 10/26/2019 7:41:37 AM (No. 217914)
Columbia Missouri is struggling mightily with this. There are shootings nearly every night and blacks perpetrate 100% of them. Nevertheless, black "activists" in town mostly blame the police, and cite traffic stop "disparity indexes" as evidence of police bias. The fact is, as Williams explains, the disparity is due to black over involvement in all types of criminal activity. Their "fixes" will never work.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 10/26/2019 9:18:50 AM (No. 218038)
There is a simple solution and that is to avoid being in an area where those in charge of the justice system allows such things to go on, unpunished. No , I mean REAL punishment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JimBob 10/26/2019 9:34:09 AM (No. 218048)
"Eastern Virginia".
The writer may have been using an old, now non-standard way of referring to Virginia, as opposed to "West 'BY GAWD!' Virginia", which is how many of the local adults used to refer to the homeland of the hillbillies from West Virginia when I was growing up in Chantilly. Chantilly in the 1950's and early '60's was a small community in rural western Fairfax county, a few miles west of the City of Fairfax. Growing up in Chantilly, it was an easy commute to George Mason U., and the author is correct in that the once rural farming community has now been completely paved over and the farms obliterated by a combination of housing developments, office parks and shopping malls. As one would expect, the inhabitants of the area who grew up in the 1950's and '60's have been largely inundated and displaced by hordes of 'City Slickers', a completely different culture.
I left the area in the early 1980's when it got too crowded for me.
I also am an admirer of Dr. Williams, and long ago noticed that crime statistics, drug use statistics, longevity statistics, etc. are typically not 'broken down' by ethnic groups. The cultural difference between various groups I think accounts for large differences in behavior which in turn affects the various 'statistics'.
My understanding is that an intact family with both adults (Mother and Father) in the household is the primary indicator of how the children will turn out, with broken families having much larger percentages of delinquent children who wind up in poverty, or in jail, or both.
My understanding is that the black people had stronger families, and were 'gaining' on the white people economically at a pretty good rate until the Federal government, under Democrat President Johnson, introduced the 'Great Society' welfare programs. These programs specified that benefits would be given to females with minor children, but ONLY if there was NO male adult in the household. The attraction to 'something for nothing' was apparently much stronger in the black community than the white, and resulted in the destruction of black families on an Industrial scale. With the resulting destruction in traditional values, work ethic and honesty, and given a couple generations to 'percolate', the result is the lawless 'urban jungle' that is our present-day reality.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/26/2019 9:53:01 AM (No. 218074)
FTA: "The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have been tolerated yesteryear." - Walter Williams
It was tolerated "yesteryear". How does one think this happened? The fact is that Southern Blacks brought their peculiar ways to Northern cities from the 1930s to modern times. One can look in any Northern newspaper of the day and find such organizations as the local Urban League trying to "educate" these newcomers to a new way of living, like keeping up property. One can also find stories of petty "bad behavior" that eventually morphed into the criminality evident today. The Negro community became a ghetto mainly in the 1960s as professionals and entrepreneurs fled the community with their families for the suburbs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/26/2019 9:54:43 AM (No. 218076)
This (race based) disproportionality is most vividly seen in gun violence. It black committed homicides are removed from the numbers, the rest of non-black America has a gun homicide rate that approaches that of Scandinavian countries - some of the most pacifist societies in the world. Before we get into the why and what to do about it is imperative that we as a nation accept that this problem exists. The blanket and rigidly enforced denial making it worse by orders of magnitude.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Wendybird 10/26/2019 12:01:08 PM (No. 218183)
Dr. Williams is unique in being able to use reason without bias, and convey it with a sense of humor. He doesn’t fear being called an Uncle Tom or anything else. I have several of his books and he was amazing when filling in for Rush. It is sad that political correctness, or fear of saying something that is obviously correct, has paralyzed freedom of speech and opinion. I hope that this is just a transient phase. President Trump also seems pretty immune to criticism, perhaps that is why he is so disliked.
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