[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by black73

Take your hood off and read this....

This is exactly the kind of "woke" virtue signaling to which I was referring. Play the race card any time anyone even attempts to start a dispassionate discussion on this matter.

Originally Posted by black73

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gun-homicide-linked-to-poor-social-mobility/

Deal with the poverty if you really want to deal with the issue of "black violence" Do you think people are born killers? They pop out the womb looking for a 9mm? Crime usually happens for a reason. Too often the reason is poverty.

You're kind of late to the discussion, but we have covered the poverty component at length. All races have portions of their populations living in poverty, and in those populations we do, indeed, see increases in violence. I've acknowledged that on several occasions already over the course of this discussion.

What we see, however, is a significantly higher rate of violent crime in our poor black communities than we do in communities of any other race. The statistics are readily available.

Originally Posted by black73

And I might have missed it but I don't recall seeing your solution to the problem.

My solution is to start the conversation. We can't even begin to solve this problem so long as we have folks as ignorant, uninformed, and angry as you are when we try to discuss this. You and your ignorant virtue signaling are serving to perpetuate this problem. My "solution" begins with open, honest, dispassionate conversation. You can join in and start to help, or you can keep your own hood on and allow the problem to continue to fester while you call those of us seeking real solutions "racists".

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/black-black-homicide-psychological-political-perspective

Black-on-Black Homicide - A Psychological-Political Perspective

Annotation
Black homicide rates are seven to eight times those of whites though Blacks have a rate of poverty only four to five times that of whites.

Abstract
Today homicide is the leading cause of death among young Black men, and contributes significantly to the shortened life-span of the Black male. In about 80-90% of the cases, the Black victim was killed by another Black, and about 52% of the murder victims were acquainted with their assailant. Just as we accept that suicide victims are psychologically impaired, we must acknowledge that a murderer is similarly impaired, and Blacks -- for both environmental and political reasons -- are likely to reflect emotional predispositions that allow them to more readily become a homicide statistic. Projected self-hatred facilitates blind rage and gives the perpetrator of the violent attack a sense of legitimacy and justification. In addition, Blacks have been indoctrinated by a criminal justice system which places higher value on a white life than on a Black life. While psychological study of homicide offenders and victims is difficult and not easily quantifiable, it is important to explore such variables in Black community violence. Programs focused on crime and violence prevention, therefore, must do more than alleviate socioeconomic ills in the the Black community. They must pay attention as well to negative psychological dynamics in the Black experience that contribute to internecine victimization. The Black community in particular is in dire need of homicide prevention centers with programs of prevention, research and treatment. (Author abstract)