Actually, I believe it's 7% total males. But if counting only the "youth," then perhaps like 3%. And that percentage concentrated in a very few densely populated neighborhoods in very violent cities. Which is not to say the problem is small--but that it is small enough that it could be solved if the leaders wanted it solved. One of the most unintentionally-hilarious articles I have read lately (MSNOW repeated at Real Clear Politics) is that Blue City mayors are uniquely situated to deal with urban violence because they are so much more experienced with it than are mayors from Red Cities.
The 3% are black men 14-49 years old. Black males are ~7%. Total black population ~13%. And the 3% of the population contributes roughly 1/2 of all violent crime. So sad.
I sat on a NYC grand jury two years ago. 19 of 21 cases had video evidence of that 3% committing serious crimes. I was shocked and had a word with the prosecutors after. This was no aberration. That’s the way it always is they said. And this in one of the most diverse cities in the country. Truly tragic.
Now, I'm not following that logic. If they did, you'd think they'd ignore statistics. They do ignore, and they're not getting money from them. Did I miss a piece of the logic?
In this case, your reader is the racist. This had nothing to do with race.
Her point about his rhetoric regarding guns is irrelevant. He spoke the truth. The 2nd Amendment blesses/curses us with guns. The need to defend ourselves against homicidal maniacs like the one who killed him is the price we pay for that bittersweet liberty. He tried. He failed. The murderer will be prevented from killing again. That's how our system works.
I don't believe the 2nd Amendment will ever be repealed, but repeal would be of no avail. Aren't drugs illegal? How many Americans die from them every year?
The way to respond to Kirk’s murder is for people like your reader to banish the hate from their hearts and tone down their lying provocative rhetoric falsely accusing people like Kirk (and you in this case) of racism.
Feel free to tell the reader just that on my behalf.
There are over 40,000 vehicular deaths a year in the US. We, as a country, have decided that level of deaths is worth the trade off. Similar with gun deaths, the trade off is worth the sacrifice.
At this point in our history Whites are the victims. Especially hetero Christians. Decades of pandering to the victims classes with shitty policies that encourage rampant fatherless homes and uncontrollable women has given us the new victims classes- raging criminals. And race is a huge factor. If Whites should feel guilty of anything, it’s going overboard with LBJ policies that propagated this disaster over the last 60 years.
This was not just an attack on you, Sasha, it was an attack on us normals who are just unable to see the evil that this writer believes exists in us, not their side. Evil is amongst us. It has always been. What is different is the far left has changed the definition of evil to include all beliefs save theirs. It is that simple. Words are not violent or evil, in and of themselves. What is evil is killing ANYONE because you do not like the words they speak.
What I found interesting is , you understood- I think- the email you’re responding to. I couldn’t figure out what the point was . It struck me as very muddled.
Some seem to believe they know all about others when they never will. If Sasha is a "racist" because she has her eyes open, then she has some good company. And thanks for not blocking and facing the whirlwind in good faith.
I dont fear anyone because of their skin color. I fear the shadow of terror hiding in plain sight. I do not blame guns, I blame the shooter. Guns have also saved many lives. Knives are very useful but there has been no cries to ban knives.
Your response is heartfelt and educational. Thank you Sasha. Thank you.
Perfectly stated. Growing up in Santa Monica, we were told not to be racist. Unfortunately, the black kids were not taught to be loving towards whites. So we weren’t taught racism by our parents, we were taught to be afraid of blacks and not to trust them, because whenever we came in contact with a black, it was usually in a negative way. Had black kids in the theater throw popcorn at us and call us crackers. Had three black kids chase me through Venice, trying to rob me. Had a black guy on a motorcycle chase me and my best friend. So the real world taught us what the liberals would not teach us, namely, that we were more likely to be robbed or assaulted by a black man than by a white person.
Any white person (especially female) that has riden public transport in a major city has been a victim of racism. I have been physically intimidated and verbally abused by black people and the women are especially hateful. If you mistakenly say this to an affluent white female liberal that has never lived outside of their suburban bubble, they will not allow themselves to believe it, rather it is just my own imagination and fears, not my actual lived experience.
Working in Los Angeles most of my life, I’ve been called “cracker” many times by black guys. I’ve been called “gringo” by Hispanic men. For the record, I’m not a “gringo” in my own country. To the leftists I say, don’t talk to me about racism. I know my experience doesn’t compare to others who have faced violence based on their race, but racism exists everywhere there is fear of the other and hate.
These people like your reader are realizing they have been willingly indoctrinated and easily brainwashed — and are striking out in their desperation.
Them seeing an insanely violent black man who was released back into society by a black magistrate who is not even a lawyer — seeing him kill that young unsuspecting migrant woman after her work shift — and seeing the MSM cover it up for over a week — was all a nuclear attack on everything he and millions of others like him have fell for the last 50 years.
"If you don’t trust a white tweaker on a train, don’t trust a black guy hearing voices either. This is important information that every young woman should know." Makes perfect sense. Why on earth should it be anything but good advice?
We have spend the last however many years making sure people who weren't racist or wouldn't have been, were. White or black. My daughter has a friend who up until her sophomore year of high school was just another kid with all the same experiences (but for family-same church, same school, etc. And also what a great family: amazing hard working parents lovely sibilings close aunts/uncles/cousins. Immigrants and first gen kids all going nowhere but up and what role models!). But in the last year or so, in has crept that, " oh you know they said that about me because I'm black" thing which is not true and if her mother heard it she would put a fast stop to it too. And fwiw our school is at this point minority majority so she isn't, you know, singled out. ( I was going to say token but then South Park jumped in my head and I did wonder how bad that would sound even though I meant it in the true sense of the word. Have to think and rethink everything all the time lol). Thank you social media and BLM and DEI. (Not). Maybe our kids at the say 23 and down ages can escape this somehow. But go older and it is endemic. Also honestly ridiculous. I saw one brief Charlie Kirk video where he was talking to a black college student who asked about white privillege. He asked her if there was anything he could do that she could not and she replied no there isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it- and he said see?? there you go. Yup. That is real life not all this manufactured stuff and all the victim culture and dependency perpetuated by the dems since jfk/ lbj and onward (that's a longer discussion though).
ALL these loaded terms: racist, misogynist, facist, ****-phobe, etc....they no longer really hold any weight, semantically. They are now terms used only propagandistically, and are therefore not only useless and ineffective, but linguistically dead. Thought terminating cliches have no place in any intelligent discourse.
Would your reader agree to seize all guns, but start that operation logically by first confiscating guns in the zip codes with the highest level of gun crimes? Or would he scream racism?
He presumes so much, doesn't he?
I have to laugh at leftists insisting we all give up our guns when they're shooting at us.
Leftists obsess over identity, but they never actually know the identities of the people they talk about. They just make stuff up.
Like their "empathy", they're just creating unfalsifiable rationalizations for what they want.
Black men account for 3% of the US population and 54% of the murders.
Facts aren't racist.
Actually, I believe it's 7% total males. But if counting only the "youth," then perhaps like 3%. And that percentage concentrated in a very few densely populated neighborhoods in very violent cities. Which is not to say the problem is small--but that it is small enough that it could be solved if the leaders wanted it solved. One of the most unintentionally-hilarious articles I have read lately (MSNOW repeated at Real Clear Politics) is that Blue City mayors are uniquely situated to deal with urban violence because they are so much more experienced with it than are mayors from Red Cities.
The 3% are black men 14-49 years old. Black males are ~7%. Total black population ~13%. And the 3% of the population contributes roughly 1/2 of all violent crime. So sad.
I sat on a NYC grand jury two years ago. 19 of 21 cases had video evidence of that 3% committing serious crimes. I was shocked and had a word with the prosecutors after. This was no aberration. That’s the way it always is they said. And this in one of the most diverse cities in the country. Truly tragic.
Since 2017 in CA — we all know here
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholding-surveillance-videos-of-crime-to-avoid-stereotypes/
I think that young black men which makes it worse.
That is exactly why democrats ignore the statistics. Young black men don't send democrat politicians money.
It is why the Left resorts to violence and murder; reason and facts are not on their side.
Now, I'm not following that logic. If they did, you'd think they'd ignore statistics. They do ignore, and they're not getting money from them. Did I miss a piece of the logic?
And how many murder victims percentage wise AND totally are black?
Disproportionate number of blacks are murdered, almost entirely by other blacks.
Figures dont lie, and liars dont figure!
In this case, your reader is the racist. This had nothing to do with race.
Her point about his rhetoric regarding guns is irrelevant. He spoke the truth. The 2nd Amendment blesses/curses us with guns. The need to defend ourselves against homicidal maniacs like the one who killed him is the price we pay for that bittersweet liberty. He tried. He failed. The murderer will be prevented from killing again. That's how our system works.
I don't believe the 2nd Amendment will ever be repealed, but repeal would be of no avail. Aren't drugs illegal? How many Americans die from them every year?
The way to respond to Kirk’s murder is for people like your reader to banish the hate from their hearts and tone down their lying provocative rhetoric falsely accusing people like Kirk (and you in this case) of racism.
Feel free to tell the reader just that on my behalf.
If only murder was illegal.
It is supposed to be!
If only...
There are over 40,000 vehicular deaths a year in the US. We, as a country, have decided that level of deaths is worth the trade off. Similar with gun deaths, the trade off is worth the sacrifice.
WELL SAID
Beautifully said.
But Sasha is also racist, because "racist" means wrongthinker.
I'll say it again. Pattern recognition and threat awareness are not racist.
Indeed. Read "Black Men and Public Spaces" by Shelby Steele, a prominent black author.
At this point in our history Whites are the victims. Especially hetero Christians. Decades of pandering to the victims classes with shitty policies that encourage rampant fatherless homes and uncontrollable women has given us the new victims classes- raging criminals. And race is a huge factor. If Whites should feel guilty of anything, it’s going overboard with LBJ policies that propagated this disaster over the last 60 years.
This was not just an attack on you, Sasha, it was an attack on us normals who are just unable to see the evil that this writer believes exists in us, not their side. Evil is amongst us. It has always been. What is different is the far left has changed the definition of evil to include all beliefs save theirs. It is that simple. Words are not violent or evil, in and of themselves. What is evil is killing ANYONE because you do not like the words they speak.
What I found interesting is , you understood- I think- the email you’re responding to. I couldn’t figure out what the point was . It struck me as very muddled.
Neither could I. I think the writer was trying to sound very smart, but it was lost on me.
Thanks for saying that. I was baffled!
I wondered how Sasha could even reply since it made no sense!
Some seem to believe they know all about others when they never will. If Sasha is a "racist" because she has her eyes open, then she has some good company. And thanks for not blocking and facing the whirlwind in good faith.
I dont fear anyone because of their skin color. I fear the shadow of terror hiding in plain sight. I do not blame guns, I blame the shooter. Guns have also saved many lives. Knives are very useful but there has been no cries to ban knives.
Your response is heartfelt and educational. Thank you Sasha. Thank you.
banning of knives is occurring in the UK....cuz that's next after guns
Perfectly stated. Growing up in Santa Monica, we were told not to be racist. Unfortunately, the black kids were not taught to be loving towards whites. So we weren’t taught racism by our parents, we were taught to be afraid of blacks and not to trust them, because whenever we came in contact with a black, it was usually in a negative way. Had black kids in the theater throw popcorn at us and call us crackers. Had three black kids chase me through Venice, trying to rob me. Had a black guy on a motorcycle chase me and my best friend. So the real world taught us what the liberals would not teach us, namely, that we were more likely to be robbed or assaulted by a black man than by a white person.
Any white person (especially female) that has riden public transport in a major city has been a victim of racism. I have been physically intimidated and verbally abused by black people and the women are especially hateful. If you mistakenly say this to an affluent white female liberal that has never lived outside of their suburban bubble, they will not allow themselves to believe it, rather it is just my own imagination and fears, not my actual lived experience.
Working in Los Angeles most of my life, I’ve been called “cracker” many times by black guys. I’ve been called “gringo” by Hispanic men. For the record, I’m not a “gringo” in my own country. To the leftists I say, don’t talk to me about racism. I know my experience doesn’t compare to others who have faced violence based on their race, but racism exists everywhere there is fear of the other and hate.
An excellent retort, you have a special gift, so keep sharing it!
These people like your reader are realizing they have been willingly indoctrinated and easily brainwashed — and are striking out in their desperation.
Them seeing an insanely violent black man who was released back into society by a black magistrate who is not even a lawyer — seeing him kill that young unsuspecting migrant woman after her work shift — and seeing the MSM cover it up for over a week — was all a nuclear attack on everything he and millions of others like him have fell for the last 50 years.
A clueless, racist reader. That’s who that is.
"If you don’t trust a white tweaker on a train, don’t trust a black guy hearing voices either. This is important information that every young woman should know." Makes perfect sense. Why on earth should it be anything but good advice?
We have spend the last however many years making sure people who weren't racist or wouldn't have been, were. White or black. My daughter has a friend who up until her sophomore year of high school was just another kid with all the same experiences (but for family-same church, same school, etc. And also what a great family: amazing hard working parents lovely sibilings close aunts/uncles/cousins. Immigrants and first gen kids all going nowhere but up and what role models!). But in the last year or so, in has crept that, " oh you know they said that about me because I'm black" thing which is not true and if her mother heard it she would put a fast stop to it too. And fwiw our school is at this point minority majority so she isn't, you know, singled out. ( I was going to say token but then South Park jumped in my head and I did wonder how bad that would sound even though I meant it in the true sense of the word. Have to think and rethink everything all the time lol). Thank you social media and BLM and DEI. (Not). Maybe our kids at the say 23 and down ages can escape this somehow. But go older and it is endemic. Also honestly ridiculous. I saw one brief Charlie Kirk video where he was talking to a black college student who asked about white privillege. He asked her if there was anything he could do that she could not and she replied no there isn't anything I can't do if I put my mind to it- and he said see?? there you go. Yup. That is real life not all this manufactured stuff and all the victim culture and dependency perpetuated by the dems since jfk/ lbj and onward (that's a longer discussion though).
TRUTH outloud
ALL these loaded terms: racist, misogynist, facist, ****-phobe, etc....they no longer really hold any weight, semantically. They are now terms used only propagandistically, and are therefore not only useless and ineffective, but linguistically dead. Thought terminating cliches have no place in any intelligent discourse.
Would your reader agree to seize all guns, but start that operation logically by first confiscating guns in the zip codes with the highest level of gun crimes? Or would he scream racism?
I could be wrong, but I believe many of those zip codes have some of the strongest gun laws.
You are correct. Laws which are intentionally not enforced.
Exactly. So more laws for "gun control" will only serve to impede lawful gun owners.
Which is the goal.
Yup. But first they would have to repeal 2A.