But, I really don't blame race. As I've said before, there is an
enclave in Queens of Black immigrants from the Caribbean. Two parent
families, nice well kept homes, and household incomes that exceed
their White neighbors.
Those Black residents of Queens can trace their ancestry back to the
African slave trade -- but there is an interesting difference. They,
or their parents, self selected themselves to pull up their roots and
move to a strange new country -- just as other immigrants to America
did. In doing that, they became a special subset of those they left
behind in Jamaica. I think that is what makes them special -- not a
vitamin or a vaccine, a roll of the genetic dice that set them apart
from their neighbors and gave them the courage to come here.
>But that is all very convenient. A black person cannot change their
>race, so by your measure, there is nothing that can be done except
>discriminate against them for something that they cannot change.
What can be done? Here is something interesting:
"During the 1960s, for instance, the residents of San Francisco's
Chinatown were among America's poorest people—with the most
unemployment, the worst housing conditions, the least education, and
the highest rate of tuberculosis in their city. Yet despite such
hardships, only five people of Chinese ancestry went to jail in the
entire state of California in 1965."
"The late political scientist James Q. Wilson debunked the theory that
crime results from poverty, or that redistributive government programs
can reduce crime rates by alleviating poverty, by pointing out that
“crime rose the fastest in this country at a time when the number of
persons living in poverty or squalor was declining.” He added: “I have
yet to see a ‘root cause’ or to encounter a government program that
has successfully attacked it.”"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1636
If you can find a real solution to crime in Detroit, I will personally
contribute to a fund to erect a bronze statue of you in the public
square on Orcas Island. You know the scientists and academics better
than I do. Let's see proof of the treatment that turns a functionally
illiterate Detroiter into an Ashkenazi Jew.