Minneapolis? Democrat Mayor, Democrat Governor. Illinois? Democrat Mayor, Democrat Governor. Etc.
It is really quite extraordinary for these people to claim that their failures are somebody else’s fault, for them to point fingers, specifically, at Republicans who have been in a minority wherever the problems are largest, and been so for many decades.
Democrats got really good at winning elections by promising the electorate the moon and stars every election, then forgetting about them. They pay off the Big Money every time–that’s just business–but the little people they only remember every time they are running for reelection.
What black people need is what everyone needs: good jobs and the good schools that make them qualified for the good jobs. Good jobs will fix in short order nearly all the problems of the inner cities. And good jobs were emerging steadily in Trump’s economy, and may still yet.
But even though it is a complex topic, it is not unreasonable to trace the progress of blacks in this country economically as consisting in a steady upward line up until the beginning of the riots in Detroit, and Watts, and elsewhere–which, then as now, were largely instigated and led by Communist agitators, or so I believe–and downward or flatlined thereafter.
After the riots, nobody wanted to invest in those neighborhoods. They singled themselves out as different and dangerous. White flight began. The money started leaving and not coming back. Many majority black neighborhoods now were once very nice middle to upper middle class places.
And White Privilege is really an invention of exhausted minds to rationalize all this failure–THEIR failure, to be clear–in such a way that their utter and complete uselessness and hypocrisy could be ignored and a residual feeling of moral superiority retained in the face of complete irrelevance.
The riots are really simple. The labor lockout–which was a tool used by Management in the Labor Wars to punish disobedient workers–was a kick in the collective balls to people already on the margins, already struggling each and every day just to survive. Pain breeds fear and fear breeds anger, and if you just add a match you get rage. This is not emotionally very complex.
But I don’t think anyone who cares about where the black community is going to be in five years can support any of this nonsense. We need to open all of our economies back up fully, and do it NOW. The media has stopped pretending this virus is the existential threat they made it out to be, and our leaders should follow them, and just say fuck it: open everything.
All of our problems have solutions, most of them simple and obvious. But lunatics and nihilists continue to seek to destroy every sprout of good that emerges from the ground, and trample on everything we have built. The problem is not what to do, but what NOT to do. If I could wave a magic wand and make these people disappear, we would live in a utopia in short order, with no poverty, no racism, and a generally happy and content world.