In Baltimore, the overwhelming majority of leadership is black. The mayor and 60% of the town council are black. 50% of the police force, including the chief I believe, are minority. The government is overwhelmingly Democrat. Yet, somehow this is still perceived to be a race issue in large part and republicans are thought to be racist by the black community. The facts, however, do not support this fallacy.
The fact of the matter is that more government $ will not solve the problems in most black communities. New York school districts spend absolutely outrageous amounts of money per student in districts where 80% or more of students never graduate. Clearly, more money has not helped. If you look at places where it is the worst, large urban areas like Philly, Chicago, etc, these are areas that are overwhelmingly Democrat and where enormous amounts of money have been spent and the situations have only gotten worse.
The only way things are going to get better is by the black community helping themselves. They have to start policing themselves, people have to make a conscious effort and decision to better themselves. To some degree, we have enslaved an entire portion of our population, not only black Americans, by making it too easy barley get by on government assistance alone. We have taken away the desire and necessity for people to NEED to better themselves through education and hard work. We have created a culture where able bodied people expect and believe it is the governments duty to provide for them.
Harlem is a perfect example of what needs to happen. For years, Money was thrown at this area of NY and things only got worse. But, then that community decided they were going to take charge and show everyone what they had to offer. They started having what they called "Harlem Days" to showcase and welcome "outsiders" to the community. Community leaders started encouraging members to help rid the area of criminals instead of protecting them. This was done by the people in the community. After a while, businesses began to believe it was safe and advantageous to invest in the area and things improved from there. I am not saying the government quit spending money there because that simply is not true. The point is that things only improved when the people in the community decided they were going to change things. You can not make things better for people simply by giving them more money. People have to be willing to make things better for themselves.
