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[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.

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

You are delusional about the treatment of white criminals.  And obviously young.  Washington DC spent SO much money during the Marion Barry years to provide youth employment, after school enrichment, summer programs, etc. and hired lots of people into city jobs as welfare.

The problem is single parenthood.  Black families were actually discriminated against during a large part of the 20th century, but did not see this dysfunction because most families were whole (and the churches were influential).  [/quote]

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