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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]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.[/b]

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]

You seem to be delusional at best or arguing in bad faith at worst. There were 400+ murders in DC a year from 1989-1996. Look up the MPD report that was posted earlier in the thread.

To your second point, are you implying that Black people who murder other Black people shouldn’t be put in jail? I don’t even understand your point. Your post reads like someone who copied and pasted the content of some anti racist books without bothering to add their own thoughts or engage in the actual argument at hand. [/quote]

I did write that quickly, but what I should’ve said is when a black father is found with a dime bag he has sent to jail, leaving a black child without money and sent into poverty, and that black child is more likely to be the one who grows up to kill.

Also, if that father is found with a dime bag 3× 3 strikes, you’re out and mandatory minimum send him to jail for an inordinate amount of time creating poverty. While a white guy found with cocaine is sent to rehab and his record is expunged.

It’s the laws that have created this mess, and the lack of services for children left behind.

And yes, Baltimore was able to turn it around in less than a year with services not cops.
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No one said the disparity between crack and cocaine laws weren’t racist. At least I didn’t.

The point of the thread was to ask if not sending the National Guard in when 400+ Black people were getting murdered a year was racist. Would you agree that if 400+ white people were getting murdered by Black people during this same time period the federal response would have been a lot more aggressive or do you think the nation at the time valued Black lives as much as white lives? [/quote]

You are too obtuse to connect crack laws and sending NG in to police ... more cops = not good. More services, jobs, healthcare, etc = good for the community...black, white, etc...

Why are you so against giving services to black communities and giving them to white communities.

Again, if your false claim of 400 people even happened which it didn't... let's make it 40,000... if 40,000 white people were dying in the 90's we would not have deployed NG, we would have given people money, jobs and healthcare.

Why didn't we deploy NG during COVID when people were dying in the parking lots of hospitals?[/quote]

So the MPD and the FBI are lying about the total murder numbers per year from 1989 to 1996? Are you serious? [/quote]

No, you’re lying about the numbers. MPD and the FBI have never posted those numbers.[/quote]

Page 4 of this report. Next?

https://mpdc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mpdc/publication/attachments/homicidereport_2005.pdf

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