@BillRM,
Quote:Now if we could start doing something about helping the black underclass getting out from under the criminal justice system and setting up conditions that would strenghten the black families enough to keep young men from joining gangs or going down the wrong path in other ways.
The idea that the gang problem in so bad in Chicago that we are likely to loss children walking to schools through "foreign" gangs territories is sickening.
Let try stopping the funding of gangs by ending the war on drugs and treat the drug problem as a public health matter not a criminal matter.....
There are a number of things we could do beginning with seeing to it that nobody ever made another dime at the most common criminal pursuits, and cleaning up the dysfunctional aspects of our culture.
Get rid of the "War on Drugs", and also pawn shops and anything else involving signs reading "We Buy Gold", i.e. "Go rob all your neighbors, and then see me..." There should be no place a Trayvon Martin could exchange a stolen wedding ring for cash.
Get rid of the WWF and also MMA cage fights. There should be no place a person could go in a serious country to watch pure sadism.
Get rid of rap "music", and whatever was left of gangs after the War on Drugs was ended. You could do that the same way we've mostly gotten rid of smoking, i.e. with ads showing normal people laughing at that **** ('This is your brain, this is your brain on rap...").
Get rid of the government monopoly on schools. Provide real options for schooling for everybody, to the greatest extent possible. Break the power of the NEA. Insist that anybody teaching a subject at a high school level have a real degree in that subject, and not a degree in education with 20 hours of the subject he or she means to teach.
I mean, there are a few other things you could do but that would do for starters.