Ferguson, fate & fatherlessness

My heart is broken. Another young man, because of poor decisions, has died prematurely. And it never had to happen. What has followed has turned a tragic death into an absurd circus of rioting, racial rhetoric, and redirection.

...There is real injustice all around us, but since we’ve grown to view anything that doesn’t go our way as such, we’ve lost sight of what it truly is.

...In 2012 the FBI reported that 5,538 black males were murdered, disproportionately, compared to 4,093 white males.  That’s 43% and 32%, respectively, of all U.S. homicides. In known single victim/offender relationships, 91% of black victims were killed by black offenders; 83.6% of white victims were killed by white offenders. The hyped white-on-black murder narrative becomes further dismantled by stats that show 7% of black murder victims are killed by whites, whereas 13.8% of white victims are killed by blacks.
...The “HandsUp” crowd wants to declare an epidemic of police force brutality by pointing to the 410 deaths (justifiable homicides of any race, either gender) caused by cops in 2012. They ignore the most glaring injustice that is at the root of so much of the violence in the black community: fatherlessness. 
...the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency found that “adolescents in single-parent families are significantly more delinquent than their counterparts residing with two biological, married parents.”

...The abortion rate among blacks is up to 5 times higher than that among whites, killing an estimated 363,705 black babies each year. And Planned Parenthood, with its yearly tally of over 327,000 abortions, is the leading killer of babies, of any color, in the nation.


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