Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas Focus on white supremacy Yet Ignore Black on Black Gang Violence.
In fairness to the Democrats, they did try a massive crackdown on crime back in the Clinton era, and Joe Biden was one of the architects of the crackdown. Then the Black prison population exploded to horrifying levels. Frankly, it surprised me that it took so long for something like BLM to arise.
The challenging question is how to cut the crime rate in poor urban Black communities without horrendous levels of incarceration. The subject is a huge one, requiring multiple posts to cover. So I'll just drop some hints and links here in this comment.
Obviously, we need to reduce the marriage penalty for getting welfare and/or get more people off welfare. To do the latter humanely, we need to raise the *market* minimum wage and/or have a citizen dividend so those with limited skills can lead a tolerable life while building up the discipline and experience that comes from working vs. collecting welfare. Simply cutting off welfare checks, as was attempted during the Clinton-Gingrich era resulted in welfare families going from zero to three jobs. This was not family friendly!
Enforcing the national picket line, as Trump attempted to do, would raise the market minimum wage. This would have solved much, but not immediately. (And, by the way, Trump did not go far enough with the tariff aspect of the national picket line. https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/free-trade-isnt )
We also need to reform those who grew up in broken families in broken neighborhoods. Our current prison system has been scientifically proven to be ineffective in this regard.
Should we raise tariffs up to what we tax domestic labor, there would be "labor shortages." Prisoners could work -- and get paid for it. Instead of dehumanizing men by cramming them into cages with nothing to do but play power games, they could be learning job skills and discipline, and living a much lower stressed existence: cheap hotel room with barred doors vs. the nightmare prisons we have today. And when they are freed, they would have money saved up so they wouldn't have to resort to crime to survive.
This is a general problem with our justice [sic] system, but thanks to the magic of previous persecutions, there is disparate impact. Until recently, the main racism I have witnessed on the Right was insensitivity to the problems with our penal system. With the January 6th fiasco and the hounding of Trump, the Right is starting to notice the problems.
Where the Right currently rocks is in the area of education reform. School choice isn't too big a deal in wealthy suburban neighborhoods where the schools are filled with the children of families which value education. It's a huge deal for rough neighborhoods. Being academically inclined in certain schools is physically dangerous. Requiring kids from such neighborhoods to go to a super authoritarian KIPP school to escape bullies is cruel.
Our core cities need smaller schools so students don't need gang membership for protection. And we need to replace our envy-producing grading system with a system which celebrates comparative advantage. Fix the first stages of the school to prison pipeline. https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/rule-5-teach-more-practical-arts
This is an incomplete answer to an important question. But for now I will conclude with the assertion: there is a Right wing way to make Black lives matter.
You are correct. The issue of incarceration is the problem. But if it is mostly, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, and carjackers, regardless of race or sex, I can live with it.
But you hit the bullseye (educational outcome in major urban areas). This is intentionally overlooked. Especially if they keep pushing the "more money for better outcomes" narrative. The places around the globe with better educational outcomes spend more than half less than we do.
What you say makes a lot of sense. I like to point out this young cat King Randall in Alabany Georgia who started a school with 6 kids, not because I think he's doing it exactly right but because he's doing it. People should start their own schools with 6-12 kids and do it the way they think it should be done. Trying to change the system is like fighting a 7 headed hydra, you have to go around it. It is the way it is for a reason and the vested interests aren't going to just toss us the keys.
The crime reform of the 1990's seemed to do two things; it locked up the 2-3% that were committing all the crime and crime rates dropped, and it locked up a whole bunch of people that it shouldn't have. Look at the !984 Comprehensive Crime bill, that has a lot of problems too.
I watched Randal earnestly and naively believe the school board was going to help him buy a building when I knew he would get shanked a dozen times before he knew what was happening. I don't think he understood how what he was doing was going to put those very apparatchiks out of a job. I saw his work as a very good template. He's basically picking up where Booker T left off.
It seems like the first thing is you have to get the gub-ment out of the way. People have been sold on the lie that the government is the only way to get what they need.
Curtis Yarvin had a interesting point about the etymology of the word 'Lord'. It comes from Old English Loaf Guard, the one who guarantees your bread. The word for household servant is Loaf Eater.
Food Stamps-> The one who provides the bread is the master and the one who takes it is the servant.
Until we break the looking to government for "services" mentality we're spinning our wheels for Americans will be the servants who will only get what their lord gives them.
--mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, feudal lord, superior; husband,". Old English hlaford is a contraction of earlier hlafweard, literally "one who guards the loaves," from hlaf "bread, loaf" (see loaf (n.)) + weard "keeper, guardian" (from PIE root *wer- (3) "perceive, watch out for").
Compare lady (literally "bread-kneader"), and Old English hlafæta "household servant," literally "loaf-eater." For the contraction, compare Harold. The modern monosyllabic form emerged 14c. Meaning "an owner of land, houses, etc.," is from c. 1300; the sense in landlord.
Why was I so blessed to you to read me and provide my lessons on things I never pondered - what a blessing. Truly my kind of human - never heard of Curtis Yarvin but seeking him out now. Sharing shit like this is what brothers are for and do.
You are too kind, I am honored that I could be helpful. Usually I think I say too much, I try to remember less is more and that people are busy. This stuff spins around in my head and no one around me knows what I'm talking about.
I heard Curtis Yarvin talk about the etymology of Lord in regards to basically Ukraine becoming our vassal state. The inherent, profound and unbreakable relationship between support and subservience stuck on my mind, inevitably one implies the other. What is given can be taken away so you are beholden.
It's easy to see the trick with those bits of information. They told people they were going to set them free and immediately handed them food stamps. The sinister seeds of despair were sewn.
(Someone hid my food stamps in my work boots one time and I almost starved to death.)
Yarvin is like a rocket ship. He has interesting ideas on who really holds power. I don't know if I agree with him but his ideas are so different to everything else, he's a seriously cancelled wrong thinker. He says real power is the parents taking possession of the school buildings and hiring a firing who they want.
In response to your riddle me this, the nefarious actions of the democrat/liberal/progressive party truly demonstrate their continued disdain for this segment of the population. It's like they are encouraging this vicious killing of one another. Race hustling in the extreme. The proof is indeed in the pudding.
And btw, IMO "collective of morons" is way too kind.
Somehow, the progressive communist democrats think ( and correctly) that they own the black race. Pretty simple, if you think hard about it. They’ve promised everything, elevated those forward thinking (indoctrinated) blacks to important roles, and yet nothing ever changes. Why? Once they capture enough blacks with some semblance of control, they tend to only think of themselves, and not their kin. So they support the democrats, slave owners of old, and the democrats gleefully accept their endorsements. Rule over the ashes comes to mind. Back when I was a young man, the black family was as solid or more so than any. What happened? Lbj? Can’t blame it on one man. The culture somewhere along the line went down the tubes, where the drug dealer is guy kids look up to,and mom don’t know shit. Do that for three generations, and the only winners are the democrat party,unions, and mic. Because the military is a way out, but also a way to die, currently, for nothing.
You articulate a reality few will touch. To me, it is like these wannabe Marxists (they would never survive outside of America) just binging on Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
13.6% of population, probably <6% are the perpetrators. My heart breaks for communities and families with the never ending violence. The government creates the problem, tells the lies over & over, and will not be the solution. I’ve read Robert Woodson, Jason Riley, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, Torrance Stephens 😊 and others who see solutions coming from within the communities themselves. Well done Dr. Stephens, once again!!
The only thing that gives me any reason to hope that someday, the madness will subside is that i recall hearing my father talk about crazed people traversing dangerous neighborhoods during the heyday of Al Capone, et. al.
Eventually the mobs were whittled down, until they ceased to be such a destabilizing and debilitating factor. As has often been stated, nature abhors a vacuum, and so other mobs came to the fore.
And here we are.
Am trying to keep my head on a swivel, and to avoid dangerous situations.
We all are looking left and right continuously. But I have the same hope and faith as you. Like me, I know you are not cowardly enough to give up, and I won't either.
Why is narrative so important? I would hope solutions would be paramount over narratives. Cats that place narrative (telling a specific story) over seeking answers to problems, are IMO, enablers of problems.
Create the problem, use taxpayer cash to “address” the problem, announce that a little more cash will solve the problem, launder most of the cash, blame the problem, throw more cash at it.
Thanks for this essay. By not having a fair discussion of this issue, we seem to be supporting the very "institutional racism" that so many people claim to want to dismantle. On another note, to be fair, the Akron shooting was all over CNN and a number of other media platforms. But the spirit of what you are saying is true.
IMHO, every black person who understands what you're saying and agrees, needs to be in the face of the media and these liberal, deep state overseers.
Make them answer for the decades they have ignored black on black crime. Are the dead men, women and children who are killed by black perps, any less deserving of protection and justice, than those killed by white criminals???
This, as you well know, has been a legacy issue for the black community for many many decades. While I can shout to the heavens about this and be summarily dismissed as a racist - the black citizens living daily with this criminal mess, cannot be shouted down or dismissed.
Just like the thousands of minorities in the Bronx, that came out for Trump- the leftist machine had no answer and couldn't insult them, thought hey half tried.
Make these white establishment liberals answer for using the black communities as pawns and game pieces. The thing they fear more than Trump, are parts of their base, that are waking to the dem lies and abuse and being then being vocal about it.
Is it possible gubmint is good with allowing black Americans killing each other culling the population? Similar situation with drug addicts od’ing and dying. Thinning the herd of the weak, sick, old, undesirable. Saves them from doing it. That’s a dark and sinister thought but our government has a history of evil doing in the name of the status quo.
Dr. Stephens! Pleasure to meet another HBCU alumn! I agree 100% that BLM is only utilized when it’s helping with their agenda.
If only our people will wake up and realize the culture warfare at play: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-culture-warfare-on-the-african
Pleasure to make your acquaintance. Pharmacy I see, Xavier?
I Will check it out thanks. And just call me T or Torrance - folk didn't name me Dr.
In fairness to the Democrats, they did try a massive crackdown on crime back in the Clinton era, and Joe Biden was one of the architects of the crackdown. Then the Black prison population exploded to horrifying levels. Frankly, it surprised me that it took so long for something like BLM to arise.
The challenging question is how to cut the crime rate in poor urban Black communities without horrendous levels of incarceration. The subject is a huge one, requiring multiple posts to cover. So I'll just drop some hints and links here in this comment.
Obviously, we need to reduce the marriage penalty for getting welfare and/or get more people off welfare. To do the latter humanely, we need to raise the *market* minimum wage and/or have a citizen dividend so those with limited skills can lead a tolerable life while building up the discipline and experience that comes from working vs. collecting welfare. Simply cutting off welfare checks, as was attempted during the Clinton-Gingrich era resulted in welfare families going from zero to three jobs. This was not family friendly!
Enforcing the national picket line, as Trump attempted to do, would raise the market minimum wage. This would have solved much, but not immediately. (And, by the way, Trump did not go far enough with the tariff aspect of the national picket line. https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/free-trade-isnt )
We also need to reform those who grew up in broken families in broken neighborhoods. Our current prison system has been scientifically proven to be ineffective in this regard.
Should we raise tariffs up to what we tax domestic labor, there would be "labor shortages." Prisoners could work -- and get paid for it. Instead of dehumanizing men by cramming them into cages with nothing to do but play power games, they could be learning job skills and discipline, and living a much lower stressed existence: cheap hotel room with barred doors vs. the nightmare prisons we have today. And when they are freed, they would have money saved up so they wouldn't have to resort to crime to survive.
This is a general problem with our justice [sic] system, but thanks to the magic of previous persecutions, there is disparate impact. Until recently, the main racism I have witnessed on the Right was insensitivity to the problems with our penal system. With the January 6th fiasco and the hounding of Trump, the Right is starting to notice the problems.
Where the Right currently rocks is in the area of education reform. School choice isn't too big a deal in wealthy suburban neighborhoods where the schools are filled with the children of families which value education. It's a huge deal for rough neighborhoods. Being academically inclined in certain schools is physically dangerous. Requiring kids from such neighborhoods to go to a super authoritarian KIPP school to escape bullies is cruel.
Our core cities need smaller schools so students don't need gang membership for protection. And we need to replace our envy-producing grading system with a system which celebrates comparative advantage. Fix the first stages of the school to prison pipeline. https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/rule-5-teach-more-practical-arts
This is an incomplete answer to an important question. But for now I will conclude with the assertion: there is a Right wing way to make Black lives matter.
You are correct. The issue of incarceration is the problem. But if it is mostly, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, and carjackers, regardless of race or sex, I can live with it.
But you hit the bullseye (educational outcome in major urban areas). This is intentionally overlooked. Especially if they keep pushing the "more money for better outcomes" narrative. The places around the globe with better educational outcomes spend more than half less than we do.
Great essay I might add sir.
What you say makes a lot of sense. I like to point out this young cat King Randall in Alabany Georgia who started a school with 6 kids, not because I think he's doing it exactly right but because he's doing it. People should start their own schools with 6-12 kids and do it the way they think it should be done. Trying to change the system is like fighting a 7 headed hydra, you have to go around it. It is the way it is for a reason and the vested interests aren't going to just toss us the keys.
The crime reform of the 1990's seemed to do two things; it locked up the 2-3% that were committing all the crime and crime rates dropped, and it locked up a whole bunch of people that it shouldn't have. Look at the !984 Comprehensive Crime bill, that has a lot of problems too.
I am hip to King Randall. All the good he does is only greeted by envy and hate.
I watched Randal earnestly and naively believe the school board was going to help him buy a building when I knew he would get shanked a dozen times before he knew what was happening. I don't think he understood how what he was doing was going to put those very apparatchiks out of a job. I saw his work as a very good template. He's basically picking up where Booker T left off.
It seems like the first thing is you have to get the gub-ment out of the way. People have been sold on the lie that the government is the only way to get what they need.
Curtis Yarvin had a interesting point about the etymology of the word 'Lord'. It comes from Old English Loaf Guard, the one who guarantees your bread. The word for household servant is Loaf Eater.
Food Stamps-> The one who provides the bread is the master and the one who takes it is the servant.
Until we break the looking to government for "services" mentality we're spinning our wheels for Americans will be the servants who will only get what their lord gives them.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/lord
--mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, feudal lord, superior; husband,". Old English hlaford is a contraction of earlier hlafweard, literally "one who guards the loaves," from hlaf "bread, loaf" (see loaf (n.)) + weard "keeper, guardian" (from PIE root *wer- (3) "perceive, watch out for").
Compare lady (literally "bread-kneader"), and Old English hlafæta "household servant," literally "loaf-eater." For the contraction, compare Harold. The modern monosyllabic form emerged 14c. Meaning "an owner of land, houses, etc.," is from c. 1300; the sense in landlord.
Why was I so blessed to you to read me and provide my lessons on things I never pondered - what a blessing. Truly my kind of human - never heard of Curtis Yarvin but seeking him out now. Sharing shit like this is what brothers are for and do.
You are too kind, I am honored that I could be helpful. Usually I think I say too much, I try to remember less is more and that people are busy. This stuff spins around in my head and no one around me knows what I'm talking about.
I heard Curtis Yarvin talk about the etymology of Lord in regards to basically Ukraine becoming our vassal state. The inherent, profound and unbreakable relationship between support and subservience stuck on my mind, inevitably one implies the other. What is given can be taken away so you are beholden.
It's easy to see the trick with those bits of information. They told people they were going to set them free and immediately handed them food stamps. The sinister seeds of despair were sewn.
(Someone hid my food stamps in my work boots one time and I almost starved to death.)
Yarvin is like a rocket ship. He has interesting ideas on who really holds power. I don't know if I agree with him but his ideas are so different to everything else, he's a seriously cancelled wrong thinker. He says real power is the parents taking possession of the school buildings and hiring a firing who they want.
-Understanding Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6AyddEveU&t=3402s
-Tucker interviews Curtis Yarvin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OF1jbAjWcw
In response to your riddle me this, the nefarious actions of the democrat/liberal/progressive party truly demonstrate their continued disdain for this segment of the population. It's like they are encouraging this vicious killing of one another. Race hustling in the extreme. The proof is indeed in the pudding.
And btw, IMO "collective of morons" is way too kind.
And as always, definitely keep doing what you do.
I thought using "collective of morons" showed home training and gave my parents props. LOL
Somehow, the progressive communist democrats think ( and correctly) that they own the black race. Pretty simple, if you think hard about it. They’ve promised everything, elevated those forward thinking (indoctrinated) blacks to important roles, and yet nothing ever changes. Why? Once they capture enough blacks with some semblance of control, they tend to only think of themselves, and not their kin. So they support the democrats, slave owners of old, and the democrats gleefully accept their endorsements. Rule over the ashes comes to mind. Back when I was a young man, the black family was as solid or more so than any. What happened? Lbj? Can’t blame it on one man. The culture somewhere along the line went down the tubes, where the drug dealer is guy kids look up to,and mom don’t know shit. Do that for three generations, and the only winners are the democrat party,unions, and mic. Because the military is a way out, but also a way to die, currently, for nothing.
You articulate a reality few will touch. To me, it is like these wannabe Marxists (they would never survive outside of America) just binging on Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Depression is truly a bich.
Ever check out that book Color, Communism, and Common Sense? It goes a long way to explaining what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYeEiONylk&t=761s
Fucking yikes. There’s a pamphlet that ought be read by 100 million people
13.6% of population, probably <6% are the perpetrators. My heart breaks for communities and families with the never ending violence. The government creates the problem, tells the lies over & over, and will not be the solution. I’ve read Robert Woodson, Jason Riley, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, Torrance Stephens 😊 and others who see solutions coming from within the communities themselves. Well done Dr. Stephens, once again!!
That is some heavy company there. Many are more deserving than this scientist. But I am indeed flattered.
…”exellent”…”an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea”…”!!.
The only thing that gives me any reason to hope that someday, the madness will subside is that i recall hearing my father talk about crazed people traversing dangerous neighborhoods during the heyday of Al Capone, et. al.
Eventually the mobs were whittled down, until they ceased to be such a destabilizing and debilitating factor. As has often been stated, nature abhors a vacuum, and so other mobs came to the fore.
And here we are.
Am trying to keep my head on a swivel, and to avoid dangerous situations.
We all are looking left and right continuously. But I have the same hope and faith as you. Like me, I know you are not cowardly enough to give up, and I won't either.
Growing up I was told "Keep your head down and your sh*t wired".
It doesn’t follow mainstream media’s narrative
Why is narrative so important? I would hope solutions would be paramount over narratives. Cats that place narrative (telling a specific story) over seeking answers to problems, are IMO, enablers of problems.
Create the problem, use taxpayer cash to “address” the problem, announce that a little more cash will solve the problem, launder most of the cash, blame the problem, throw more cash at it.
Thanks for this essay. By not having a fair discussion of this issue, we seem to be supporting the very "institutional racism" that so many people claim to want to dismantle. On another note, to be fair, the Akron shooting was all over CNN and a number of other media platforms. But the spirit of what you are saying is true.
I stand corrected. I saw just a single day of coverage, nothing after that unlike the duration of others.
Great post Torrance.
IMHO, every black person who understands what you're saying and agrees, needs to be in the face of the media and these liberal, deep state overseers.
Make them answer for the decades they have ignored black on black crime. Are the dead men, women and children who are killed by black perps, any less deserving of protection and justice, than those killed by white criminals???
This, as you well know, has been a legacy issue for the black community for many many decades. While I can shout to the heavens about this and be summarily dismissed as a racist - the black citizens living daily with this criminal mess, cannot be shouted down or dismissed.
Just like the thousands of minorities in the Bronx, that came out for Trump- the leftist machine had no answer and couldn't insult them, thought hey half tried.
Make these white establishment liberals answer for using the black communities as pawns and game pieces. The thing they fear more than Trump, are parts of their base, that are waking to the dem lies and abuse and being then being vocal about it.
Keep bringing the truth and waking people up.
Is it possible gubmint is good with allowing black Americans killing each other culling the population? Similar situation with drug addicts od’ing and dying. Thinning the herd of the weak, sick, old, undesirable. Saves them from doing it. That’s a dark and sinister thought but our government has a history of evil doing in the name of the status quo.
It’s not “ like”. It is.
I saw you post about it and now I’m reading about it!
How ya been fam? Post the link here so I can read it tonight. I wrote a post last week on Minor Attracted Persons https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/minor-attracted-persons-newspeak
and one of your fans (which I am also)
William Hunter Duncan shared this with me. https://indamidle.substack.com/p/pedophiles-in-prison
Exceptional.
Sure, what ya need? Finna go and teach my last class of the day will chk this later. Keep me posted.