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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It's more complex. I used to be the COO of OSSE. I really don't know where all the education money goes. We also need housing and mental health services.[/quote]

What we need is the political will to tell people to parent their children.  To tell women not to have multiple children by multiple men to whom they are not married when neither parent has the education or job skills to take care of their children.
What we KNOW is that finishing high school and delaying child-bearing until you are an employed adult is the way out of poverty.  Bonus points for getting married and staying married in terms of beneficial outcomes for kids.
Do we need programs that help people who failed to make those prudent life choices?  Yes.  But we also need for politicians to be very vocal about what society's expectations are in terms of people getting themselves together.  Instead, all DC politicians do is blame "the other"---schools, gentrifiers, systemic racism---without every uttering a single word about personal responsibility.[/quote]

+1. Absolutely. The kids who are carjacking and committing armed robberies at age 13 aren’t doing it because of systemic racism. [/quote]

Yes they absolutely are.

Why do you think they don't have strong parent figures to show them right from wrong? Why do you think they don't care about consequences because they feel they have nothing to lose?

Because we incarcerate black people at a disproportionate rate and give them disproportionate sentences compared to other races. Because applicants with black sounding names are 50% less likely to receive a callback despite submitting an identical resume as someone with a white sounding name. Because for decades we denied black people home loans and redlined them out of many parts of the city, concentrating poverty and denying them the single greatest wealth-builder in the world. Because we concentrate public and affordable housing in the ghettos created by that redlining which perpetuates the cycle of poverty and creates long commutes for residents - time they could be spending with their kids. Because we introduced crack into their communities to fund illegal operations in South America. Because we allowed their communities to become food deserts, making it harder for developing kids to get proper nutrition.

It's literally ALL because of systemic racism.  [/quote]

What's interesting is that if DC were to go after illegal guns hard (we don't) another generation of black males would be imprisoned/taken off the streets like the crack wars. According to Countee it's the same group reoffending over and over behind these crimes and killings of innocent children and bystanders . So how do you propose to solve this?[/quote]

I guess we better wait for a proprtional number of white/Latinx/Asians to commit those  crimes then the police can equitably arrest these offenders.[/quote]

Crack sentencing stopped a LOT of death in the inner city, but today people say it wreaked havoc on a generation of black males. Which is it?[/quote]

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