BLACK PEOPLE & GUN CONTROL

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Posted on 25th February 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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Some interesting facts in this article by a black woman about gun control and black people.  There are 5 times as many white people in this country as black people. From the U.S. Census Bureau there are approximately 80 million white households and 15 million black households. According to the article 42% of white households and 16% of black households own a gun. That means there are 33.6 million white households with a gun and 2.4 million black households with a gun. That means there are 14 times as many white households than black households with a gun. The article also states that blacks are 6 times more likely die by homicide and 8 times more likely to commit a homicide than white people, even though they are only one-fifth of the total white population. Obama’s efforts to disarm white people will not reduce the number of black homicides. It will just increase the number of white people susceptible to crime and the DHS.

Obama should be focused on why black people murder each other at such an alarming rate. But that isn’t his agenda. He doesn’t want to fix the real problems in this country because it’s the liberal do-gooder entitlement policies that have created the urban kill zones. It’s the liberals who are responsible for the thousands of black people murdered every year by other black people.  

Preserve gun rights, save black rights

Sunday, February 24,2013

My organization, CURE — the Center for Urban Renewal and Education — recently sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to bring attention to the importance of rigorously defending the right of all Americans, guaranteed under the Second Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun.

Our event provided a forum for black leaders — from the world of politics and public policy in Washington, from the business community, from academia, and from the clergy — to express their deep concern about current efforts to limit our God-given and constitutional individual right of self-defense.

Why would an organization like CURE, whose mission focuses on the relevance of American values of faith and freedom to minorities, be so concerned about guns?

Because, as conservative black Americans, we know that the soul of America is kept alive with the free flow of the oxygen of freedom. And we know that when that flow is interrupted in any way, the group that suffers first and most are blacks.

New gun control initiatives coming from our president and from Democrats in Congress to respond to a highly publicized tragedy by wanting to expand the power of government and limit the freedom of citizens comes as no surprise.

There is no problem facing America today that liberals do not believe should be solved by more government and less freedom. And liberals are consistent and predictable in their indifference to facts and experience that show whenever they do succeed in growing government and limiting freedom, they make matters worse, not better.

A substantial body of research already shows that gun controls empower criminals and weaken law-abiding citizens.

As John Lott, former chief economist of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which three or more people have been killed since at least 1950 has occurred in a place where people are not allowed to carry their own firearms.”

Regarding black reality, blacks are the least armed, least protected and defended, and the most assaulted citizens in our country.

According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 42 percent of whites and 16 percent of blacks say that they have a pistol or rifle at home.

And, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for the period 1980 to 2008, “Blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and eight times more likely to commit a homicide.”

Law-abiding black citizens live under siege in crime-ridden urban centers. Somehow, they are supposed to buy the logic that they’ll be better off if more power is given to those in law enforcement (who already are charged with maintaining order, but don’t), while freedoms are stripped from those who obey the law.

In a Pew Research Center survey in 2009, 46 percent of whites compared to 24 percent of blacks said they had a “great deal” of confidence in their local police to enforce the law.

Can anyone whom God has blessed with a brain actually think that universal background checks will keep guns out of the hands of gang thugs? Or that these same checks, in which some past legal infraction might nullify a gun application, will not result in even fewer urban law-abiding blacks obtaining a weapon for protection?

Perhaps even worse than another make-pretend big-government “answer” that not only will not solve a problem but will make it worse: Gun control initiatives mask the issues that really need attention.

Those include: a culture that devalues personal responsibility, that fosters government dependence, that trashes traditional understanding of sex, marriage and family, and that bans these traditional values from our public schools and our public life.

Americans of all backgrounds must fight yet another misguided liberal attempt to undermine our personal freedom and sap the vitality of our nation.

Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education.

DEMOCRATIC POLICIES DESTROY THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE

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Posted on 23rd March 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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There have been 81 murders in Philadelphia so far this year. We’re on a record setting pace. Since it isn’t politically correct, the Phila Police don’t reveal the racial breakdown of the murderers or the murdered. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that 90% of the murders were committed by black men and 90% of the victims were black. The City of Philadelphia has been in complete control of the Democratic Party since the 1950s. Every law, ordnance, school initiative, tax, and policy put into place in the City of Philadelphia over the last 60 years has been done by the Democratic Party. They have created a murderous, crime ridden, poverty stricken, run down, dying city. And the race who has suffered the most is the black race. They are the ones being murdered. They are the ones not being educated. They are the ones not being employed. Walter Williams wonders why black people would continue to vote for Democrats that have done this to them.

Political Rope-A-Dope

by Walter E. Williams

It’s not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step with this agenda.

According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent; Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso, Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.

The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of them – such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia – haven’t elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. What’s more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.

You say, “What’s the point, Williams?” Let’s be clear about it. I’m not stating a causal relationship between poverty and Democratic and/or black political control over a city. What I am saying is that if one is strategizing on how to help poor people, he wants to leave off his list of objectives Democratic and black political control of cities. According to Albert Einstein (attributed), the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Crime is one of the results of the liberal agenda. Blacks are 13 percent of the population but are more than 50 percent of murder victims. About 95 percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer. Blacks are not only the major victims of murder but also suffer high victimization rates of all categories of serious violent crime. Most often, another black is the perpetrator.

During the 1960s, academic liberals and hustling politicians told us that to deal with crime, we had to deal with its “root causes,” poverty and discrimination. My colleague Thomas Sowell has pointed out that in 1960, the total number of murders in the United States was lower than in 1950, 1940 and 1930, even though our population had grown and two new states had been added. The liberal agenda, coupled with courts granting criminals new rights, later caused the murder rate to double, and the rates of other violent crimes also began to skyrocket.

Crime imposes a hefty tax on law-abiding residents of black neighborhoods. Residents bear costs of having to shop outside of their neighborhoods; criminals have driven many businesses out. Children can’t play safely in front of their homes. Fearing robberies, taxi drivers, including black drivers, often refuse to accept telephone calls for home pickups and frequently pass black customers by on the street. Neighborhood property values are lower as a result of crime. Plus, there’s the insult associated with not being able to receive pizza or other deliveries on the same terms as people in other neighborhoods.

Often, politicians who call for law and order are viewed negatively, but poor people, particularly poor black people, are the most dependent on law and order. In the face of high crime, wealthier people can afford to purchase alarms, buy guard dogs, hire guards and, if things get too bad, move to a gated community. These options are not available to poor people. The only protection they have is an orderly society.

Democratic and black politicians are beholden to and serve the interests of the powerful vested interest groups, such as labor unions, teachers unions and assorted liberals, not the ordinary people who voted them into office. Otherwise, they wouldn’t begin to allow the rampant crime and nearly systematic destruction of learning opportunities for generations of black children by governmental schools.

None of this is to say that blacks should vote Republican. It is to say that political power doesn’t necessarily translate into economic power and well-being for the ordinary citizen.  

March 21, 2012Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University, and a nationally syndicated columnist. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit theCreators Syndicate web page.