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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean? Do you mean if Sidwell students were killed there would be more police presence? what exactly are you asking?[/quote]

Have no idea how the original post was confusing if you had any historical knowledge of the city. In the 1990s, when DC was recording 300+ and sometimes 400+ murders a year, was it racist to not extend federal support? Do you think federal support would have been extended if rich white kids were being murdered at the same staggering volume?[/quote]

It is confusing because 1. children were not being murdered at that rate walking home from school 2. What is "federal support"... troops? jobs? addiction counseling? jobs programs?

The question was based on a false premise then used non-specific language like "federal support".

that is why it is confusing.[/quote]

We can simplify it. It 400+ UMC and rich white men and children, mostly in WOTP neighborhoods, were being murdered per year in DC from 1989 to 1996, what do you think the federal response would have been?

Is that clear enough? [/quote]

It’s still based on a false premise that 400+ people were being murdered per year.

[b]But, yes, if white people were dying at a high rate, we would provide them with jobs, healthcare, and counseling.[/b]

But when Black people are dying, we jail them taking fathers out of the home and leaving children and women in poverty.

We don’t have to ask with the response have been different. We already know from history that our response to the black community is to jail them and our response to the white community is to help them.

Since you seem to be have a sophomore understanding of these things, I would suggest educating yourself. A good start with be a documentary called the 13th.

On a brighter scale, your question is is their systematic racism.

Yes, of course there is systematic racism. When white people need help the federal government helps them… They do this by making soft laws (like bankruptcy laws), lowering interest rates, and sending them to college (GI bill).

I personally believe you wanted to send more cops in… that would’ve given the opposite result of helping.

The things that have lowered crime and murders in Baltimore and Boston our jobs, healthcare, teen summer programs, etc … not more cops[/quote]

How would that stop people from being murdered tomorrow or this year? Those are long term solutions that wouldn’t solve the immediate problem. You know that if that many white people were being murdered in the 90s they would have sent in the National Guard 1,000%.

Stop being daft and obtuse.[/quote]

Because you come from a racist viewpoint, you really don’t even understand.

It’s like me trying to explain graduate school material to a kindergarten.

The solution is always more services. The solution for farmers is to give them money. The solution for white addicts is to give them rehab.

You’re being daft and obtuse if you don’t understand that. Look at Baltimore. Reduce crime by 87% in one year through services like I mentioned.

You so badly want a police black bodies you can’t even see how racist you are. We literally would never do that to white people and that’s why people are up in arms that the National Guard is walking around safe neighborhoods.[/quote]

Where are you getting these Baltimore crime stats from? Baltimore has seen only a 22% decrease in homicides in any official numbers I’ve seen:

https://www.baltimorepolice.org/news/baltimore-police-department-releases-2025-mid-year-crime-report-and-key-highlights

By comparison, DC has seen a more than a 100% decrease in the murder rate since the National Guard showed up. That means less Black men are dead. Doesn’t that matter to you?[/quote]

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