As black-on-black violence escalates in Toronto:
"...today I read that it is all Mike Harris’ fault for cutting welfare programs 10 plus years ago and enough is enough. "Let me tell you a fact of life living in black community in the downtown east side of the inner city. There are a multitude of programs for youth to keep them off the streets. There are probably more community centers and not-for-profit programs run in this area than in any other part of the city. They are all easily accessible to all youths – even for those whose families are on welfare or have very limited financial means. Guess what? The children, on a whole, don’t show up. To participate and take advantage of any of these programs requires a certain amount of discipline to show up every Monday or Wednesday or Friday or Sunday and that is what these children lack because their families are so fractured and their parents have failed in their first duties to their children." (...) "You can job-training program all you want but if Susie and Johnny have squandered every opportunity to learn in regular school what makes you think that a job-training program will meet with any success -- especially in light of the fact that they can’t read or show up regularly or even on time? These children take the paths of least resistance and unless you are willing to offer something better than blaming the 'man' for their lack of success in life -- it’s not going to happen. Blaming Mike Harris for cutting welfare rates is the equivalent of blaming the Joos for their ills." (...) "I can think of no other community in Canada with the exception of the aboriginal community that is so fractured by the dysfunctional family unit than the black community. It is far easier to blame someone else than admit there is a mote in your own eye. I have a message for you – whitey and whitey’s money can’t save you. Racism does exist but it will only end when you stop whining and whaling at the wall of racism about how the 'man' is holding you back and go get yourself a ladder or a rope and haul your butt over that wall. But that takes two parents standing firm early in life saying 'Get busy.' There is no pride in being a father of many by your 18th birthday. There is no badge of honour to be known as someone’s babies’ mother. Let me tell you something odd I discovered about Whitey years ago; for every one who attempts to block your path there are more standing firm ready to offer a hand up or cheer you on the path to your success." *** Via DustMyBroom. Please read the whole thing. Sadly, we are a long way from a solution. The social worker mentality runs deep, and is heavily funded. When I worked for United Way, some group was always coming up with a new "solution" to the problem of Jamaican/Somali violence. Each brilliant new innovative program featured: a) basketball, b) rap music or c) basketball & rap music. Yep, just what these kids need: more false hopes about making it big in ball, and more immersion in degraded black pop culture! And this is a cultural problem. US blacks make up 8% of the population, but commit almost half the violent crime [We don't keep race based stats up here]. Black kids from upper class families score lower on standardized tests than white lower class kids. Being a "baby momma" is now a badge of honour, (and I still love Fantasia, ok?) not something to be ashamed of and discouraged. Blaming this stuff on "slavery" is like a Canadian kid of Irish descent saying he dropped out of school because of the Orange Lodge and the Potato Famine. Earlier this year, a 26-year-old black mother of four was shot at a club at 3 in the morning. What is a 26-year-old doing with four kids, and why is she at a speakeasy when decent people are home in bed? But I am one of the few Torontonians with the brass balls to ask such questions. Even other conservatives have bought into the multi-culti claptrap. Guess that's my grumpy white working class "pull yerself up by yer own bootstraps like I did" mentality. I'm not sure how Toronto is going to solve this problem. I'm not even sure I much care anymore. I do know that Arnie and I are very seriously thinking of moving to Utah. Expect lots of white flight from otherwise "liberal" Torontonians. (They won't admit why they're leaving, of course. And they'll get call "racists" for taking off.) So what? Well, visited Detroit lately? Of course not. That's your answer.