This is a very interesting and worthwhile discussion between Tucker Carlson (who needs no introduction) and rapper Ice Cube. Highly recommended viewing to get an idea of what life is like in "the hood".
A very useful look at how many Americans live today. Many of us aren't exposed to that way of life at all. I saw its effects when serving as a prison chaplain, where many of the inmates to whom I ministered came from that background. That's not to say that everyone in the hood is a criminal, of course; it's just that many in that environment see no other way out but to turn to crime, which is tragic in itself.
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And once a person is a convicted criminal, many will not trust them enough to employ them for fear of becoming another victim. So they decide they have no choice but to become and stay a criminal.
Enlightening, to put it mildly...
My work group hired a fellow awaiting trial, he did excellent work for nearly a year. He was convicted and sentenced to something nominal (30 days?), but corporate policy would not allow us to re-hire him. His replacement was far inferior. Lose-lose situation, but corporate ruled.
@Anon 12:55,
Chicken and egg. Most criminals do re-offend, and it generally takes a pretty big foul-up to become a convicted felon in the first place.
Convicts, by definition, don't deserve trust automatically, they should earn it.
Most can't, take the easy out (which is usually how they went wrong to begin with), and end up right back where they started.
Look up recidivism rates on anything, and get back to us.
(For reference, in Califrutopia, it's 60% within 3 years. This bespeaks broken people, not a broken system. Prison for life is just where some people belong, and that's largely because we've become too civilizationally soft to kill the worst of them outright.)
The fractional percentage of good guy/wrong place & time cases are so miniscule as to be lost in the margin of error.
They exist, but they are overwhelmed by the tsunami of lifelong screw-ups.
Individually tragic, but corporately negligible.
Society has been yelling "Crime doesn't pay." for millenia; some people are just too stupid to believe it.
Boo frickin' hoo.
The problem now is we still haven't thrown away the key on enough of them, and every time we try, the bleeding hearts come out, and we start letting them out again just as it's starting to make a statistical difference.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Turn Alcatraz et al into Chateau D'If, with an entrance and no exit for every violent criminal, and you make a huge stride towards getting civilization back the way it used to be.
Then ban divorce except for cause, and before you know it, it's 1950 again as far as crime statistics go.
ZFG for the guilty.
Government helped destroy the family unit so they have a responsibility for this.
Yep. LBJ's Great Socialist Society was the death knell for the (mostly) black nuclear family. Too bad HE wasn't in the backseat of that drop-top in Dallas.
BC, Old Boy... Backseat was the last place LBJ was going to be on that day. He KNEW :)
It is the husbands, sons, fathers. They beget violence and race hatred and then you see them living in exactly the same ghetto and whining about it. Civil society used to send them away and try to enjoy a few minutes without thugs breaking in, smashing in your car window, or killing you for kicks and the price of a fix.
What happened always happens. The civilized abandon the cities. I used to wonder how cities could vanish in history and then be refound. Well, it was easy. The good people left and the bad people ran the city to death and beyond and nobody would step in in any sort of attempt to save it because all of the benefits of city life were destroyed by the thugs.
I worked my way through college in the mid 70s in south central Los Angeles (Black Slums) on a multiracial crew for the phone company. The area was dangerous and we got hazard pay. Daily there were shootings and the area had not recovered from the riots of 10 years before. There were only small businesses and some fast food.
I was in a fast food eating lunch when a gang saw another gang member walking near the fast food and bus stop and open fire killing the gang member and 4 others and shooting up the fast food. I had the window blown out by me and just missed getting shot and others got shot.
There were areas the police would not go and we would only go during certain times. We were often attacked while up on poles and my Black supervisor got shot. After I graduated college the person that replaced me thought the area was nice, but I could not understand it. He told me he was from Gary, IN and they lost about 9 people per year to death as they killed them while on poles.
The viciousness of the response to him not taking the Vax was amazing:
https://youtu.be/2Lmnx7_9gxw
And it’s continuing:
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/media-ice-cube-anti-vax-tucker-carlson/
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