That is actually quite funny.
The originating article was suggesting something improper about calling these offenders young people, which they were. He was complaining about a truthful observation, that was even made on Fox!
Instead he wants to substitute "black mobs".
Yup, how could that be spreading race hate? Can't imagine that.
Good of you to step up and defend the anonymous guy who wants to race bait on a site that has already been deplatformed by Google for racism problems. Good investment on your part.
You can't even debate the underlying issue can you? You have to again turn to the race baiting terminology assertion to try and silence those who are actually attempting to discuss it. The group of young people were indeed black. That in and of itself is different than a "group of young people." Their behaviour was certainly mob-like. How would you refer to them - boisterous? Not only does race blind terminology not make them any less black, but worse it seeks to ignore, even silence, understanding of what are a number of significant underlying problems.
So let me offer that I agree that the sentencing guidelines during the "war on drugs" fell hardest on much of the black urban community. My question would be what was it about the black urban community that caused this to happen? I would suggest that the collapse of black family culture in this country was a significant precipitating reality that contributed greatly to those eventual incarcerations. Read some of Gutman's research which demonstrated the importance of strong, legalized families to blacks for several generations during and after Reconstruction. In fact, between the late 19th century and the 1950's black marriage rates were occasionally higher than those of whites. The vast majority of black children were raised in two parent households in those decades.
A host of other issues are at play as well. I would argue deindustrialization of the US, particularly cities like Detroit, was a meaningful contributing factor as well. Charles Murray is a racist boogie man to many on the left because of his book, "The Bell Curve. Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life " I am confident none of those yelling loudest have actually read it. It was co-authored by Richard Herrnstein.
His conclusions were about cognitive stratification - not race. However, the conclusions were uncomfortable, however apparent, and the liberal, and particularly black, reviewers howled racism and compared it in one case to "Mein Kampf." His primary conclusion was that 20th century American society had transitioned into a true meritocracy where intelligence (measured by IQ/AFQT scores) became the single strongest predictor of economic success, educational attainment, and social status—more influential than parental socioeconomic background. High IQ individuals were concentrating in elite professions or achieving elite success even in trades while lower IQ individuals were increasingly left behind driving social problems like chronic poverty, crime, out-of-wedlock births, and welfare dependency.
His earlier 1984 work "Losing Ground" had far greater impact on public policy in this country. Much of it dealt with the unintended and largely negative consequences of great expansion of the social safety net during the 1960's. Both democrats and republicans credited it with shaping the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 - the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Sadly, over the long term and through politically driven executive decisions, the positive effects of the act have largely failed.
I reiterate, having honest forthright discussion about the actual underlying causes of the social collapse of much of Black society in this country is imperative. Violent crime is an outgrowth of that collapse. Simply letting such criminals back onto the streets is clearly proving not an option. Until we do, and no matter how one attempts to normalize the data, we will continue to face the reality that somewhere around 30% of all violent crime and 50% of murders across this nation are being committed by just 14% of the population.
