05-31-2020, 02:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2020, 02:15 AM by Warren Dew.)
(05-29-2020, 01:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-29-2020, 01:10 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I don't have to guess. I know why they are Democrat controlled. Democrats are racist, and can come up with a story that "protects" white Democrats from blacks, while allowing said whites to feel good about it.
Despite their spoken good intentions, the white Democrats who rule cities cannot seem to get a handle on the racism and brutality that is built into police departments. I don't see why reform can't occur; can you?
Yes, I can. It's because of the racial prejudice of the Democratic electorate. The same racism that causes Democrats to think the blacks can't succeed without affirmative action also causes them to think they need adversarial police departments to protect themselves against blacks.
Successful reform would have to tear down the whole edifice - affirmative action, the Democratic welfare plantation, all of it - and replace it with true equality of opportunity and a system of rewarding personal responsibility. For the Democratic politicians, that would be political suicide. And as you say, most Republican politicians don't understand that cities benefit from more shared infrastructure that requires more government spending, so they can't govern cities effectively for reasons unrelated to racial prejudice.
Quote: No wonder some blacks feel they have to be violent. Nothing has been done after decades and decades of police murders and unjust violence.
Absolutely. Some people ask why they are rioting and destroying their own neighborhoods. Certainly there are some agent provocateurs - from other blue cities, by the way - but the reason they can be provoked is that they don't feel empowered by the system. Stores are seen as part of the system just as much as police stations are, so some are willing to lash out to destroy them.