...left NYC after 35 years because of Covid, but already the city was decaying under DeBlasio - filth, crime etc - it smells like a urinal. This past week, I drove back in for a few days...I like to take the subway because it is fast and cheap(er)...but it's true there are mentally ill people everywhere - mainly black. As I sat in one subway car, a black man with a crazed look in his eyes sat across the way from me - as the train proceeded to move, he got up, turned around and start to punch the window without touching it - like he was miming with an imaginary foe. Did I feel safe? - NO. I moved far away from him. He was about the 4th person in two days that was completely NUTS on the subway. When I was in NYC last Spring, I was taking a cab through Time Square, the taxi stopped for a light and as I looked out the window, a black dude walked right up to another black dude and clocked him - he passed out - it was as if I was watching a movie. No one helped the guy who was down, people just walked on by - and my taxi took off. What I'd like to know is what happened to the BILLION DOLLARS that DeBlasio's wife Charlese/Charlene?! was supposed to use for mental health care. NO reporter has ever addressed this issue, solved this mystery. And NO, I don't feel comfortable around (mostly) urban blacks ...they seem 'tamer' out in the countryside - but then again there are so few of them where I have chosen to live.
This is so sad because it's so true. I still believe if a tough on crime Republican ran for mayor right now, he would win. Even lefties would lie and tell their friends they voted for the Dem, but would secretly vote for the crime-fighter. That's how Giuliani got in, but he had been U.S. atty and assistant AG in Reagan's DOJ. Curtis Sliwa ain't gonna cut it.
re: New York...I just left after almost 40 years...there's little or no hope for much change in the near future given the leadership. I drove into the city a week ago for a fews days - there were scary crazies throughout the subway, trash, trash bags everywhere, closed & boarded up stores and of course the city's summer 'urine' perfume. Last Spring, I was in a taxi driving through Time Square (about late afternoon) - I looked out the window and one black dude clocked another - out cold - and people just kept walking on by. And what about that heart-braking slaughter of the black cab driver, father of 4, who was killed by teenagers in broad daylight?! And today - we see that Lululemon stores have been raided and wiped clean of 30K merchandise and no one lifted a finger to stop them. Clearly, Obama has no cares about his black urban bros - you would think that post-Presidency he would do SOMETHING to help his people - because after all we were not his people and he told us so repeatedly.
We are only keeping an apartment there to be near our kids for now - but things are not looking good at all.
what happened to the BILLION DOLLARS that DeBlasio's wife... Everyone knows what happened to it, it's gone and nothing good at all came from it. Biden just dumped another $300 Billion on the National credit card today. He takes pleasure in knowing that it disturbs you. That is just the kind of guy he is. Anyone who questions him will get yelled at.
Love the way that parasitic politicians who love give-away politics always declare “Today I have given..blah, blah, blah...” or “Today We have given...blah, blah, blah...” as if any of those cheap thieving bastards ever reached into their pockets...with one hand they steal from the industrious to buy votes from sloths while, with the other hand they steal from the nation to enrich themselves...Despicable pimps hiding behind their Ray-Bans
The USA Today article on this crime was written so, so carefully to make it sound like it was a group of white militia preppers, carefully citing an official who called the criminals "off the grid" and being sure to mention the gun-toting five-year-old. The average USA Today reader will read the article - without any photos, obviously, even though the Clay County sheriff's office had the mugshots the day before USA Today's publication of the story - and just assume it's white rednecks at it again.
The media is as much to blame as the Democratic Party is for the perception of who commits crime in this country. We all, black and white, suffer for it.
"Blacks, who make up about 20% of New York's population, commit more than 70% of the shootings. In Los Angeles, blacks are only 8% of the population, but commit nearly half of the murders."
I know what I'm giving several more of my friends for Christmas this year, a subscription to Unsafe. Thanks Ann!
Someone interviewed a black Jamaican-immigrant cab driver in NYC, maybe 25 years ago, who said he flat out wouldn't pick up blacks in gangsta attire. He'd only pick them up if they were wearing business suits. It was a survival issue with him.
(The interview MAY have been published in National Review, but I don't know for certain.)
Whenever Democrats attain political power, they will do everything possible to set race relations back centuries while shrilly blaming Republicans for every racist sin imaginable.
I would feel sorry for the law-abiding black people who are unfairly tarred by the overwhelming racial disparity in crime statistics, except for the fact that they vote for Democrats. Often in numbers like 80-90%. And they've been doing this for fifty years or more.
When a group of people repetitively and consciously inflicts harm upon themselves and refuses to recognize their obvious mistakes, it's best to primarily think about protecting yourself from them It's within their power to make changes but they refuse to, and there's nobody else to blame but them.
Candace Owens has written about Blacks being on the Democratic Party "Plantation. She has argued that the American Left likes black people to be government-dependent and that black people have been brainwashed to vote for Democrats.
They vote for Democrats because they rely on government assistance and fear that Republicans will take away their welfare checks and other handouts.
Agreed; Candace Owens is wonderful. It's an absolute tragedy that more black people...and all people...don't listen to her. We would all have far fewer troubles in the world if they did.
Absolutely hysterical how liberals love statistical averages when it concerns cigarettes but declare math racist when applied to their social narrative...if their dogmatic heresy remains unchecked another full-blown inquisition is just around the corner...silly me...it is already upon us 🤣
Santa Monica 2007 nice enough place to visit even with the some homeless down by the pier. 2022 a shithole by comparison. Hell even Whitey Bulger found refuge to hide out there long before BLM!
Democrats have brought the shithole country to all of the West Coast cities and all other cities and states run by Democrats. Why does the republican party not runs ads every day just showing live shots of addicts, trash and human waste? Only one party is growing the homeless problem. And it reveals who they are entirely. No one would vote for that. A documentary about Seattle showed tourists from Tennessee. They could not understand why people are allowed to set up tents and live in filth on public property. I can't either but I know why. Well meaning people who fund and enable the ruination of other humans.
How can we reduce the number of crimes committed by Blacks? These young men were predominantly raised in poor single parent homes. The goal, then, should be the reduction of the number of such homes. Reform the welfare system.
In 1996, Congress passed a bill which eliminated the existing main welfare program. That program was The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. President Clinton signed this bill into law. At that time, the illegitimacy rate among African American women was about 70%. The goal of abolishing AFDC was to reduce the number of poor single parent households dependent on welfare. A new program, Temporary Aid to Needy Families, replaced AFDC. This new program has not substantially reduced welfare dependence.
In 1994 I wrote a memo stating why I believed the AFDC program should be eliminated. The same arguments apply today. I wrote, in part; “In their editorial titled "Let's Outlaw Welfare for Unmarried Mothers", William J. Bennett and Peter Wehner stated: "Most of the proposals currently on the table miss the essential point of welfare reform. The point is not to ensure tougher work provisions and job training; rather it is to go after a system that fosters illegitimacy and its attendant social pathologies."
Charles Krauthammer , in an editorial titled: A legitimate way to break the Welfare Cycle wrote "And last year, presidential candidate and "New Democrat" Bill Clinton gingerly approached the idea with his "two years and out," welfare reform plan. But "two years and out", however well intentioned, misses the point. The point is to root out at its origin the most perverse government incentive program of all; the subsidy for illegitimacy."
Earlier in this same editorial Mr. Krauthammer wrote: "Toward the end of the seminar , I suggested that the only realistic way to attack this cycle of illegitimacy, and its associated pathologies, is by cutting off the oxygen that sustains the system: stop the welfare checks. The check, generated by the first illegitimate birth, says that government will play the role of father and provider. It sustains a deranged social structure of children having children and raising them alone and abandoned by their men."
Syndicated columnist William Raspberry appearing on Face the Nation voiced his support for Charles Murray's call for an end to AFDC. During the discussion Mr. Raspberry stated that everyone agrees at this point that the welfare system needs overhaul. He used an interesting metaphor to paraphrase the current discussion. He stated that there are two ways to address the problem, one can either place a fence around the edge of a cliff or one can send an ambulance to the base of the cliff below to deal with the wreckage.”
Since TANF has not solved the problem of welfare dependence, it needs revision. The solution I propose is to stop the welfare checks, free housing, food stamps, free medical care, etc. Tell young girls that if they give birth to a child, they are responsible for that child. The government will provide no support to the mother or the child. The illegitimacy rate will drop. The number of young men growing up in poor single parent homes will drop precipitously. Eighteen years from now the murder rate among young males will have been greatly reduced.
The money saved by eliminating these welfare programs could then be redirected to help those truly in need, the mentally ill and the homeless.
Congratulations Ann. This message from you was sent to my spam box. This is the insidious little game that woke tech employees play. Anything they don't like they flag as spam. This one must have struck a nerve. Yes, Democrats have destroyed trust between the races in the U.S. I will never forgive them for doing that. They are willing to stoke hatred and destroy the country just to hold onto power in DC.
This past Christmas I was leaving the mall after not finding a certain gift. It was the middle of the day and I was empty handed and trying to remember where I parked my car. There was a white woman about my age and build in front of me. She tilted her head and could see me from the corner of her eye. She gripped her belongings tighter and made a bee line for her car. Mine was a few cars before hers. I got into my car and pulled out the parking lot. I'll never know if she realized it was me in my car or that I drive a nice car. Am a honest Christian woman who weighs less than the average American woman and would only hurt a fly. Yes I'm Black and it stung for a second that she thought I was following her and would rob her but I understand what we're like statistically and I can't blame her for prioritizing her safety.
The leftist dominated Democratic Party and the complicit propaganda press are destroying capitalist traditional America and may, unfortunately, succeed.
...left NYC after 35 years because of Covid, but already the city was decaying under DeBlasio - filth, crime etc - it smells like a urinal. This past week, I drove back in for a few days...I like to take the subway because it is fast and cheap(er)...but it's true there are mentally ill people everywhere - mainly black. As I sat in one subway car, a black man with a crazed look in his eyes sat across the way from me - as the train proceeded to move, he got up, turned around and start to punch the window without touching it - like he was miming with an imaginary foe. Did I feel safe? - NO. I moved far away from him. He was about the 4th person in two days that was completely NUTS on the subway. When I was in NYC last Spring, I was taking a cab through Time Square, the taxi stopped for a light and as I looked out the window, a black dude walked right up to another black dude and clocked him - he passed out - it was as if I was watching a movie. No one helped the guy who was down, people just walked on by - and my taxi took off. What I'd like to know is what happened to the BILLION DOLLARS that DeBlasio's wife Charlese/Charlene?! was supposed to use for mental health care. NO reporter has ever addressed this issue, solved this mystery. And NO, I don't feel comfortable around (mostly) urban blacks ...they seem 'tamer' out in the countryside - but then again there are so few of them where I have chosen to live.
This is so sad because it's so true. I still believe if a tough on crime Republican ran for mayor right now, he would win. Even lefties would lie and tell their friends they voted for the Dem, but would secretly vote for the crime-fighter. That's how Giuliani got in, but he had been U.S. atty and assistant AG in Reagan's DOJ. Curtis Sliwa ain't gonna cut it.
re: New York...I just left after almost 40 years...there's little or no hope for much change in the near future given the leadership. I drove into the city a week ago for a fews days - there were scary crazies throughout the subway, trash, trash bags everywhere, closed & boarded up stores and of course the city's summer 'urine' perfume. Last Spring, I was in a taxi driving through Time Square (about late afternoon) - I looked out the window and one black dude clocked another - out cold - and people just kept walking on by. And what about that heart-braking slaughter of the black cab driver, father of 4, who was killed by teenagers in broad daylight?! And today - we see that Lululemon stores have been raided and wiped clean of 30K merchandise and no one lifted a finger to stop them. Clearly, Obama has no cares about his black urban bros - you would think that post-Presidency he would do SOMETHING to help his people - because after all we were not his people and he told us so repeatedly.
We are only keeping an apartment there to be near our kids for now - but things are not looking good at all.
what happened to the BILLION DOLLARS that DeBlasio's wife... Everyone knows what happened to it, it's gone and nothing good at all came from it. Biden just dumped another $300 Billion on the National credit card today. He takes pleasure in knowing that it disturbs you. That is just the kind of guy he is. Anyone who questions him will get yelled at.
Love the way that parasitic politicians who love give-away politics always declare “Today I have given..blah, blah, blah...” or “Today We have given...blah, blah, blah...” as if any of those cheap thieving bastards ever reached into their pockets...with one hand they steal from the industrious to buy votes from sloths while, with the other hand they steal from the nation to enrich themselves...Despicable pimps hiding behind their Ray-Bans
The USA Today article on this crime was written so, so carefully to make it sound like it was a group of white militia preppers, carefully citing an official who called the criminals "off the grid" and being sure to mention the gun-toting five-year-old. The average USA Today reader will read the article - without any photos, obviously, even though the Clay County sheriff's office had the mugshots the day before USA Today's publication of the story - and just assume it's white rednecks at it again.
The media is as much to blame as the Democratic Party is for the perception of who commits crime in this country. We all, black and white, suffer for it.
That's hilarious.
"Blacks, who make up about 20% of New York's population, commit more than 70% of the shootings. In Los Angeles, blacks are only 8% of the population, but commit nearly half of the murders."
I know what I'm giving several more of my friends for Christmas this year, a subscription to Unsafe. Thanks Ann!
An EXCELLENT Christmas gift! Thank you!
Someone interviewed a black Jamaican-immigrant cab driver in NYC, maybe 25 years ago, who said he flat out wouldn't pick up blacks in gangsta attire. He'd only pick them up if they were wearing business suits. It was a survival issue with him.
(The interview MAY have been published in National Review, but I don't know for certain.)
The difference between Blacks and other ethnic groups in America is that Blacks defend their criminals.
Not all. Mainly Joy Ann Reid and other racists like her.
Whenever Democrats attain political power, they will do everything possible to set race relations back centuries while shrilly blaming Republicans for every racist sin imaginable.
I would feel sorry for the law-abiding black people who are unfairly tarred by the overwhelming racial disparity in crime statistics, except for the fact that they vote for Democrats. Often in numbers like 80-90%. And they've been doing this for fifty years or more.
When a group of people repetitively and consciously inflicts harm upon themselves and refuses to recognize their obvious mistakes, it's best to primarily think about protecting yourself from them It's within their power to make changes but they refuse to, and there's nobody else to blame but them.
Candace Owens has written about Blacks being on the Democratic Party "Plantation. She has argued that the American Left likes black people to be government-dependent and that black people have been brainwashed to vote for Democrats.
They vote for Democrats because they rely on government assistance and fear that Republicans will take away their welfare checks and other handouts.
Agreed; Candace Owens is wonderful. It's an absolute tragedy that more black people...and all people...don't listen to her. We would all have far fewer troubles in the world if they did.
Absolutely hysterical how liberals love statistical averages when it concerns cigarettes but declare math racist when applied to their social narrative...if their dogmatic heresy remains unchecked another full-blown inquisition is just around the corner...silly me...it is already upon us 🤣
Santa Monica 2007 nice enough place to visit even with the some homeless down by the pier. 2022 a shithole by comparison. Hell even Whitey Bulger found refuge to hide out there long before BLM!
Democrats have brought the shithole country to all of the West Coast cities and all other cities and states run by Democrats. Why does the republican party not runs ads every day just showing live shots of addicts, trash and human waste? Only one party is growing the homeless problem. And it reveals who they are entirely. No one would vote for that. A documentary about Seattle showed tourists from Tennessee. They could not understand why people are allowed to set up tents and live in filth on public property. I can't either but I know why. Well meaning people who fund and enable the ruination of other humans.
Democrats only care about Black criminals!
How can we reduce the number of crimes committed by Blacks? These young men were predominantly raised in poor single parent homes. The goal, then, should be the reduction of the number of such homes. Reform the welfare system.
In 1996, Congress passed a bill which eliminated the existing main welfare program. That program was The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. President Clinton signed this bill into law. At that time, the illegitimacy rate among African American women was about 70%. The goal of abolishing AFDC was to reduce the number of poor single parent households dependent on welfare. A new program, Temporary Aid to Needy Families, replaced AFDC. This new program has not substantially reduced welfare dependence.
In 1994 I wrote a memo stating why I believed the AFDC program should be eliminated. The same arguments apply today. I wrote, in part; “In their editorial titled "Let's Outlaw Welfare for Unmarried Mothers", William J. Bennett and Peter Wehner stated: "Most of the proposals currently on the table miss the essential point of welfare reform. The point is not to ensure tougher work provisions and job training; rather it is to go after a system that fosters illegitimacy and its attendant social pathologies."
Charles Krauthammer , in an editorial titled: A legitimate way to break the Welfare Cycle wrote "And last year, presidential candidate and "New Democrat" Bill Clinton gingerly approached the idea with his "two years and out," welfare reform plan. But "two years and out", however well intentioned, misses the point. The point is to root out at its origin the most perverse government incentive program of all; the subsidy for illegitimacy."
Earlier in this same editorial Mr. Krauthammer wrote: "Toward the end of the seminar , I suggested that the only realistic way to attack this cycle of illegitimacy, and its associated pathologies, is by cutting off the oxygen that sustains the system: stop the welfare checks. The check, generated by the first illegitimate birth, says that government will play the role of father and provider. It sustains a deranged social structure of children having children and raising them alone and abandoned by their men."
Syndicated columnist William Raspberry appearing on Face the Nation voiced his support for Charles Murray's call for an end to AFDC. During the discussion Mr. Raspberry stated that everyone agrees at this point that the welfare system needs overhaul. He used an interesting metaphor to paraphrase the current discussion. He stated that there are two ways to address the problem, one can either place a fence around the edge of a cliff or one can send an ambulance to the base of the cliff below to deal with the wreckage.”
Since TANF has not solved the problem of welfare dependence, it needs revision. The solution I propose is to stop the welfare checks, free housing, food stamps, free medical care, etc. Tell young girls that if they give birth to a child, they are responsible for that child. The government will provide no support to the mother or the child. The illegitimacy rate will drop. The number of young men growing up in poor single parent homes will drop precipitously. Eighteen years from now the murder rate among young males will have been greatly reduced.
The money saved by eliminating these welfare programs could then be redirected to help those truly in need, the mentally ill and the homeless.
Congratulations Ann. This message from you was sent to my spam box. This is the insidious little game that woke tech employees play. Anything they don't like they flag as spam. This one must have struck a nerve. Yes, Democrats have destroyed trust between the races in the U.S. I will never forgive them for doing that. They are willing to stoke hatred and destroy the country just to hold onto power in DC.
EVERYBODY MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE SUBSTACK EMAIL AS A "CONTACT," SO IT WON'T GO INTO SPAM!
WFB is turning over in his grave!!
Truth!!
The cult of leftism is so entrenched in NYC and other big cities that the Democrats would rather be waterboarded than vote for a Republican.
This past Christmas I was leaving the mall after not finding a certain gift. It was the middle of the day and I was empty handed and trying to remember where I parked my car. There was a white woman about my age and build in front of me. She tilted her head and could see me from the corner of her eye. She gripped her belongings tighter and made a bee line for her car. Mine was a few cars before hers. I got into my car and pulled out the parking lot. I'll never know if she realized it was me in my car or that I drive a nice car. Am a honest Christian woman who weighs less than the average American woman and would only hurt a fly. Yes I'm Black and it stung for a second that she thought I was following her and would rob her but I understand what we're like statistically and I can't blame her for prioritizing her safety.
The leftist dominated Democratic Party and the complicit propaganda press are destroying capitalist traditional America and may, unfortunately, succeed.