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I like this man's honest passion as he identifies problems without giving out excuses.

Takeaways

* If a woman sleeps with someone who is of no value to the community should she not expect that from the man's seed? * Do made up names set a child up for failure? * Should parents be given a parenting test before naming their child / children? * Is the crux of the problem the lack of a correcting male presence in the home? * Does Black Lives Matter if a black person kills a black person or only when a white cop kills a black person? https://youtu.be/0oSVIRBjW5Q

Excerpts from http://www.dailywire.com/news/7441/7-statistics-you-need-know-about-black-black-crime-aaron-bandler# Blacks are 10 percent of the population in Los Angeles, CA, but commit 42 percent of its robberies and 34 percent of its felonies. Whites make up 29 percent of the city's population, and commit 5 percent of its robberies and 13 percent of its felonies. In New York City, blacks committed "75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime," despite only composing 23 percent of the population, said Mac Donald in a Hillsdale speech. Additionally, 2009 Bureau of Justice Statistics numbers show that in 2009, "blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties." 4. There were almost 6,000 blacks killed by other blacks in 2015. By contrast, only 258 blacks were killed by police gunfire that year. 5. The percentage of blacks arrested for crimes is consistent with police reports. This is according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, as well as this 1985 study: “Even allowing for the existence of discrimination in the criminal justice system, the higher rates of crime among black Americans cannot be denied,” wrote James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein in their classic 1985 study, “Crime and Human Nature.” “Every study of crime using official data shows blacks to be overrepresented among persons arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for street crimes.” This was true decades before the authors put it to paper, and it remains the case decades later. “The overrepresentation of blacks among arrested persons persists throughout the criminal justice system,” wrote Wilson and Herrnstein. “Though prosecutors and judges may well make discriminatory judgments, such decisions do not account for more than a small fraction of the overrepresentation of blacks in prison.” This data disproves the notion that racism is what drives higher rates of arrests among the blacks than among whites or broader America. 6. According to Riley, "Black crime rates were lower in the 1940s and 1950s, when black poverty was higher" and "racial discrimination was rampant and legal." If it's not racism and poverty that are blame for the high black crime rate, then what is? 7. According to Mac Donald, "A straight line can be drawn between family breakdown and youth violence." As economist Thomas Sowell points out, before the 1960s "most black children were raised in two-parent families." In 2013, over 72 percent of blacks were born out of wedlock. In Cook County –which Chicago belongs to – 79 percent of blacks were born to single mothers in 2003, while only 15 percent of whites were born to single mothers. "Until that gap closes, the crime gap won't close, either," writes Mac Donald. My Take On This Video I learned many years ago: Identify the problems, fix or remove, move on to greater outcomes - no excuses allowed.