Anonymous wrote:PP, I'll maintain that the American govt was built on the genocide of the African American community. I'm not sure why when African American genocide is discussed other group's trauma is discussed so that it has to be a pissing contest of who is the most traumatized. This is specifically an American issue.

Secondly, all of you who lack basic empathy, humanity and refuse to hold your forefathers accountable may you reap what you sow upon yourselves. ITNOY.

Nope. It was built by hard workers and people who prioritize education and value a traditional family continue to be rewarded. Crime and out of wedlock births = poverty.

Regarding DC schools, which, yes, have more money thrown at them than any school system I've ever seen, mostly to dismal results...

The lottery system and its subsequent churn waste so much money. Charter schools and the structures that have spring up supporting them waste more. Take a look at the rates at which lower income kids change schools, at faculty retention numbers. Instead of blaming parents, figure out how someone working 70 hours weeks and more than one job can also have the means to supervise their family.

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Anonymous wrote:PP, I'll maintain that the American govt was built on the genocide of the African American community. I'm not sure why when African American genocide is discussed other group's trauma is discussed so that it has to be a pissing contest of who is the most traumatized. This is specifically an American issue.

Secondly, all of you who lack basic empathy, humanity and refuse to hold your forefathers accountable may you reap what you sow upon yourselves. ITNOY.

NOBODY is saying that we shouldn't be accountable for the horror of our country's past. But passing off crime for fun as some kind of "trauma" is utterly absurd. This is overwhelming a DC youth and parenting issue, not a Black American issue.

I am saying we should not.

We should study the past. We should learn from the past. But this weird Marxist re-education camp mantra people have decided makes us "accountable" for the past doesn't make anyone accountable for anything. It's a performance. It's culty. It means nothing. It solves nothing. It elects Republicans.

There is no time in history when holding a current population "responsible" for the actions of the past has gone well. At worst, it's a cry for genocide. At best, it's a good way to drive wedge issue politics across populations that should share common goals.

At the moment a lot of well-intentioned Americans are easily manipulated by guilt. That solves no problems, but it creates many.

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Anonymous wrote:People have seriously lost their minds. I am truly hoping the posts about "giving everyone under 18 a car" and the BS about brains not being wholly formed until 26 and that these thugs are "kids" are sarcastic.

How about this? In addition to trying them as adults and throwing them in jail for a long time, how about we round up their absentee parents and throw them in jail too?

For the people standing in the back, such as yourself, multi-generational trauma caused by the United States gov't, atrocities, war crimes committed by the govt against the African American community has contributed to this factor.

The government has failed to apologize for its atrocities, nor has it paid reparations to African Americans.

This issue is systemic and is what happens when the govt stole a people from their land, enslaved them for 400 years, had Jim Crow, periods of lynching, mass incarceration, no civil rights and voting before 1965, science experiments on poor African Americans, under-resourced schools, etc.

Shall I continue?

The stealing of cars is the least of DC's problems.

What do you propose we do about all the shot and killed black people and kids, typically killed by other black people? A teen shot another teen in the Petworth metro just before 3 today.

Acknowledge the DNA based trauma and also acknowledge the poverty harms. Poverty brings a set of trauma of its own, provide more social workers, resources in the schools, therapy for the families, etc. healthy families equal a healthy society. Healthcare should be free in this country for everyone so that people can access the resources that they need.

The entire world has DNA based trauma.

The US has incredible wealth but doesn’t want to redistribute it to force this population to get an education. That’s the problem. You do need a lot more resources to get to that point, but we have the money. Finland and Korea both transitioned from abject poverty to wealth by educating their population.

How do you get the parents and youth of DC to value education? There ARE resources here--far more than many other places.

With immigrants, they frequently know the value precisely because they *didn't* have access to it in their home country. When you don't have something, you appreciate that thing even more. DC youth have a TON available to them. They just don't care or appreciate it.

I'm just so tired of the excuses. It's not poverty, it's not trauma, and it's not lack of access to education. It's a massive parenting failure. Not everywhere, but in DC. How do you fix that? Throwing money at the problem certainly doesn't help.

You have to force them to access education. Fines and jail time if you don’t.

Anonymous wrote:PP, I'll maintain that the American govt was built on the genocide of the African American community. I'm not sure why when African American genocide is discussed other group's trauma is discussed so that it has to be a pissing contest of who is the most traumatized. This is specifically an American issue.

Secondly, all of you who lack basic empathy, humanity and refuse to hold your forefathers accountable may you reap what you sow upon yourselves. ITNOY.

You are not a victim. Your parents aren't victims. I suspect you went to a better private high school, a better college than I did. I am very tired of people appropriating historical trauma like it's some kind of blood legacy. Stop browbeating people into feeling sorry for you. It doesn't make them like you and it only works on the kind of "nice" affluent white liberals who still send their kids to segregated schools, still live in the suburbs, etc.

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I feel sorry for anyone who gets carjacked between now and the end of the year. There will be so much pressure to not respond or to call it anything else so we don't hit 1000.

930 as of this am

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Anonymous wrote:People have seriously lost their minds. I am truly hoping the posts about "giving everyone under 18 a car" and the BS about brains not being wholly formed until 26 and that these thugs are "kids" are sarcastic.

How about this? In addition to trying them as adults and throwing them in jail for a long time, how about we round up their absentee parents and throw them in jail too?

For the people standing in the back, such as yourself, multi-generational trauma caused by the United States gov't, atrocities, war crimes committed by the govt against the African American community has contributed to this factor.

The government has failed to apologize for its atrocities, nor has it paid reparations to African Americans.

This issue is systemic and is what happens when the govt stole a people from their land, enslaved them for 400 years, had Jim Crow, periods of lynching, mass incarceration, no civil rights and voting before 1965, science experiments on poor African Americans, under-resourced schools, etc.

Shall I continue?

The stealing of cars is the least of DC's problems.

What do you propose we do about all the shot and killed black people and kids, typically killed by other black people? A teen shot another teen in the Petworth metro just before 3 today.

Acknowledge the DNA based trauma and also acknowledge the poverty harms. Poverty brings a set of trauma of its own, provide more social workers, resources in the schools, therapy for the families, etc. healthy families equal a healthy society. Healthcare should be free in this country for everyone so that people can access the resources that they need.

The entire world has DNA based trauma.

The US has incredible wealth but doesn’t want to redistribute it to force this population to get an education. That’s the problem. You do need a lot more resources to get to that point, but we have the money. Finland and Korea both transitioned from abject poverty to wealth by educating their population.

How do you get the parents and youth of DC to value education? There ARE resources here--far more than many other places.

With immigrants, they frequently know the value precisely because they *didn't* have access to it in their home country. When you don't have something, you appreciate that thing even more. DC youth have a TON available to them. They just don't care or appreciate it.

I'm just so tired of the excuses. It's not poverty, it's not trauma, and it's not lack of access to education. It's a massive parenting failure. Not everywhere, but in DC. How do you fix that? Throwing money at the problem certainly doesn't help.

This. I can all acknowledge the horrors of past trauma, but also note that DC was much safer like 5 years ago. I don’t have the same misguided duty you do to sort of defector excuse “trauma induced crime” to continue so we don’t have to crack down on it because we feel bad. You are the reason we can’t have nice things.

Here is my heartless, hardcore solution.


-abandon the stupid violence interruptors that don’t do sht. Waste of money.

-working crime lab now. This is insane.

-arrest people who commit crime now matter what they look like.

-incarcerate violent criminals

-end the youth rehab act, 2nd chance act and anything the progressive criminal justice reform led whole city council has done policy wise to shield the records of violent criminals up to age 26.

-take away licenses from dangerous drivers who have speeding tickets

-implement broken windows policing

-take away housing vouchers for anyone convicted of a violent crime.

-hire 10,000 police

-send all the 12-17 year old repeat carjackers who make up the bulk of the car jacking problem to like juvy or some kind of reform camp.


-cry me a fking river if you don’t like my ideas. I drink your tears.

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Anonymous wrote:People have seriously lost their minds. I am truly hoping the posts about "giving everyone under 18 a car" and the BS about brains not being wholly formed until 26 and that these thugs are "kids" are sarcastic.

How about this? In addition to trying them as adults and throwing them in jail for a long time, how about we round up their absentee parents and throw them in jail too?

For the people standing in the back, such as yourself, multi-generational trauma caused by the United States gov't, atrocities, war crimes committed by the govt against the African American community has contributed to this factor.

The government has failed to apologize for its atrocities, nor has it paid reparations to African Americans.

This issue is systemic and is what happens when the govt stole a people from their land, enslaved them for 400 years, had Jim Crow, periods of lynching, mass incarceration, no civil rights and voting before 1965, science experiments on poor African Americans, under-resourced schools, etc.

Shall I continue?

The stealing of cars is the least of DC's problems.

What do you propose we do about all the shot and killed black people and kids, typically killed by other black people? A teen shot another teen in the Petworth metro just before 3 today.

Acknowledge the DNA based trauma and also acknowledge the poverty harms. Poverty brings a set of trauma of its own, provide more social workers, resources in the schools, therapy for the families, etc. healthy families equal a healthy society. Healthcare should be free in this country for everyone so that people can access the resources that they need.

The entire world has DNA based trauma.

The US has incredible wealth but doesn’t want to redistribute it to force this population to get an education. That’s the problem. You do need a lot more resources to get to that point, but we have the money. Finland and Korea both transitioned from abject poverty to wealth by educating their population.

How do you get the parents and youth of DC to value education? There ARE resources here--far more than many other places.

With immigrants, they frequently know the value precisely because they *didn't* have access to it in their home country. When you don't have something, you appreciate that thing even more. DC youth have a TON available to them. They just don't care or appreciate it.

I'm just so tired of the excuses. It's not poverty, it's not trauma, and it's not lack of access to education. It's a massive parenting failure. Not everywhere, but in DC. How do you fix that? Throwing money at the problem certainly doesn't help.

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Anonymous wrote:People have seriously lost their minds. I am truly hoping the posts about "giving everyone under 18 a car" and the BS about brains not being wholly formed until 26 and that these thugs are "kids" are sarcastic.

How about this? In addition to trying them as adults and throwing them in jail for a long time, how about we round up their absentee parents and throw them in jail too?

For the people standing in the back, such as yourself, multi-generational trauma caused by the United States gov't, atrocities, war crimes committed by the govt against the African American community has contributed to this factor.

The government has failed to apologize for its atrocities, nor has it paid reparations to African Americans.

This issue is systemic and is what happens when the govt stole a people from their land, enslaved them for 400 years, had Jim Crow, periods of lynching, mass incarceration, no civil rights and voting before 1965, science experiments on poor African Americans, under-resourced schools, etc.

Shall I continue?

The stealing of cars is the least of DC's problems.

What do you propose we do about all the shot and killed black people and kids, typically killed by other black people? A teen shot another teen in the Petworth metro just before 3 today.

Acknowledge the DNA based trauma and also acknowledge the poverty harms. Poverty brings a set of trauma of its own, provide more social workers, resources in the schools, therapy for the families, etc. healthy families equal a healthy society. Healthcare should be free in this country for everyone so that people can access the resources that they need.

The entire world has DNA based trauma.

The US has incredible wealth but doesn’t want to redistribute it to force this population to get an education. That’s the problem. You do need a lot more resources to get to that point, but we have the money. Finland and Korea both transitioned from abject poverty to wealth by educating their population.

Anonymous wrote:PP, I'll maintain that the American govt was built on the genocide of the African American community. I'm not sure why when African American genocide is discussed other group's trauma is discussed so that it has to be a pissing contest of who is the most traumatized. This is specifically an American issue.

Secondly, all of you who lack basic empathy, humanity and refuse to hold your forefathers accountable may you reap what you sow upon yourselves. ITNOY.

NOBODY is saying that we shouldn't be accountable for the horror of our country's past. But passing off crime for fun as some kind of "trauma" is utterly absurd. This is overwhelming a DC youth and parenting issue, not a Black American issue.

PP, I'll maintain that the American govt was built on the genocide of the African American community. I'm not sure why when African American genocide is discussed other group's trauma is discussed so that it has to be a pissing contest of who is the most traumatized. This is specifically an American issue.

Secondly, all of you who lack basic empathy, humanity and refuse to hold your forefathers accountable may you reap what you sow upon yourselves. ITNOY.

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Anonymous wrote:People have seriously lost their minds. I am truly hoping the posts about "giving everyone under 18 a car" and the BS about brains not being wholly formed until 26 and that these thugs are "kids" are sarcastic.

How about this? In addition to trying them as adults and throwing them in jail for a long time, how about we round up their absentee parents and throw them in jail too?

For the people standing in the back, such as yourself, multi-generational trauma caused by the United States gov't, atrocities, war crimes committed by the govt against the African American community has contributed to this factor.

The government has failed to apologize for its atrocities, nor has it paid reparations to African Americans.

This issue is systemic and is what happens when the govt stole a people from their land, enslaved them for 400 years, had Jim Crow, periods of lynching, mass incarceration, no civil rights and voting before 1965, science experiments on poor African Americans, under-resourced schools, etc.

Shall I continue?

The stealing of cars is the least of DC's problems.

This is insanity.

Of course Black Americans were treated horribly and American history has a lot of horrific things on its hands... but have you met some immigrants? Who grew up in REAL poverty, had no kind of assistance whatsoever, were enslaved by colonial governments and had their land stolen such that it left them homeless and completely destitute, plus all the other personal trauma that goes on (familial abuse, etc).

And yet... these immigrants aren't stealing left and right for funsies.

And yet... the majority of Black Americans in this country are hard working, ethical, good neighbors.

YOU are making some pretty comprehensive and racist stereotypes of your own, of Black people - as though they're incapable of doing better because of "trauma." That's utter horseshit.

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Anonymous wrote:People have seriously lost their minds. I am truly hoping the posts about "giving everyone under 18 a car" and the BS about brains not being wholly formed until 26 and that these thugs are "kids" are sarcastic.

How about this? In addition to trying them as adults and throwing them in jail for a long time, how about we round up their absentee parents and throw them in jail too?

For the people standing in the back, such as yourself, multi-generational trauma caused by the United States gov't, atrocities, war crimes committed by the govt against the African American community has contributed to this factor.

The government has failed to apologize for its atrocities, nor has it paid reparations to African Americans.

This issue is systemic and is what happens when the govt stole a people from their land, enslaved them for 400 years, had Jim Crow, periods of lynching, mass incarceration, no civil rights and voting before 1965, science experiments on poor African Americans, under-resourced schools, etc.

Shall I continue?

The stealing of cars is the least of DC's problems.

What do you propose we do about all the shot and killed black people and kids, typically killed by other black people? A teen shot another teen in the Petworth metro just before 3 today.

Acknowledge the DNA based trauma and also acknowledge the poverty harms. Poverty brings a set of trauma of its own, provide more social workers, resources in the schools, therapy for the families, etc. healthy families equal a healthy society. Healthcare should be free in this country for everyone so that people can access the resources that they need.

You know that low income children and their parents (or often, parent) get free healthcare. Have you never heard of medicaid? Look it up.

It’ll get worse next year.