Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:35 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 5:46 pm
yeah, it's all about the color of their skin, right?
Only "black leadership" can stop black people from killing black people, it's their responsibility!!!
Couldn't have anything to do with poverty and the drug trade...
Economic opportunity solves a lot of problems. How bad was the crime in Baltimore when the city was thriving economically and you had wider participation.....well paying jobs for average folk? My guess is as the jobs left and drugs came in, crime went up? That would be a wild guess. Those black folks moved the jobs out of the city? My wild guess would be no?
Good guess. When the mills, shipbuilding and heavy industry dried up, the city fathers had to find something else to do. They tied their wagons to healthcare and bio-technology. Very different kind of workforce needed. It takes no imagination at all to understand how this preferentially further disadvantages those already on the bottom of the working class pile. Those who were more mobile (white working class) could move elsewhere to similar jobs in industries they knew and had worked in. Those with few / no assets were stuck. No problem attracting the types of workers needed from out of town and already had the institutions in place to grow the new Baltimore. These decisions weren't made by black men.
As far as I can tell, there was no malicious intent, but there was also less consideration given to the game plan than was really required. This was taking place in the 60s through 70s into the 80s, not overnight. Very racist period in our (the country's) history. The "moral majority" (white working class), "silent majority" (white working class) being dog whistled to by the republican party and their southern strategy to remain in power. Selling white tribe fear, just like today. Not to mention the federal government's (J.E. Hoover) plan to turn a blind eye to those exploiting the "drug distribution" opportunity in the black community, further impoverishing.
These decisions weren't made by black men. The white power structure is responsible for this.