What would happen to someone

[velvtacheeze]

What would happen to someone in congress that came out discussing the realities of the black community.
-49% of all murders are 93% black on black
-High crime rate on other blacks
-Most black families are one parent

You'd think this would be welcome but I think all hell would break loose.

It would depend on the solutions proposed. The typical conservative doesn't really have any, except to blame blacks for the problems that centuries of oppression have created.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Would it be good if we offered more education and internship like oppunities?

 

[Pheonixops]

What would happen to someone in congress that came out discussing the realities of the black community.
-49% of all murders are 93% black on black
-High crime rate on other blacks
-Most black families are one parent

You'd think this would be welcome but I think all hell would break loose.

I think that it would depend on the delivery. If it's adversarial; it will receive and adversarial response, if it's done in a manner that truly shows concern and not scorn, I think that many more people would embrace the message.
"“The Youth PROMISE Act would use a fraction of the money spent on jails and prisons for investments in proven, cost-effective programs to help our young people before serious crimes are committed.



“The City of Richmond, Virginia recently spent $2.5 million on such programs, and the result was a 40% drop in the crime rate. Compare that to the $90 million the city and state now spend on jails and prisons for Richmond and you can see how cost-effective the Youth PROMISE Act could be on a nationwide scale. With this kind of evidence, why would anyone reject cost-effective investments in children and choose instead to wait until they commit a crime and then spend more money on jails and prisons. "

 

[Pheonixops]

“People are dying on a chillingly regular basis in Newark, and there is no moral outrage,” says Booker.

"He’s also pushing school choice to shake up Newark’s appalling public schools"

So he began staging media events—dismissed as “stunts” by Mayor James—to draw attention to local ills, including camping out on street corners to spotlight the drug trade that openly flourished in the city. Booker also crossed party lines to seek solutions to Newark’s problems. With South Jersey Republican businessman Peter Denton, he cofounded the education-reform group E3, which advocated bringing more schooling alternatives—from charter schools to vouchers—to struggling inner-city kids. “When I first met Cory, school choice was still very controversial in Newark,” says Denton. “In black communities, it was understood as something that white Republicans supported. But Cory understood its importance right away and was willing to advocate for it.”
The city has a nearly 70 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, and, as social scientists note, over half of all American kids born without a legal father will arrive in the world poor. Booker has called for “a chorus of moral voices” in the community to urge “an end to behavior that perpetuates poverty and economic isolation.”
More substantive efforts have followed. Booker has hired as his police director a top NYPD cop, Garry McCarthy, who led Gotham’s successful battle against the drug trade in Washington Heights, which combined stepped-up street patrols with community outreach, including cajoling landlords into fixing up abandoned buildings. Though criticized for bringing in a white outsider to run the police in a majority black city, Booker hasn’t flinched. He and McCarthy are reorganizing Newark’s oft-criticized department, long wracked by graft and ineptitude. The Newark Police Department has introduced a narcotics squad, a first in its history, and set up a special unit to chase down fugitives. “We used to have people released from jail and violating parole, and we didn’t bother to seek them out,” Booker says incredulously. In its first two months, the new unit apprehended 75 fugitives.

Booker also believes that instilling respect for the law is crucial in driving down crime. Newark has thus instituted sweeps of illegal gambling establishments, which for years have operated with impunity. “The message has to be sent that no one is above the law,” one of Booker’s deputy mayors said of the crackdown.

Booker also wants to slash the city’s workforce by 10 percent to 20 percent. He has already fired more than 60 people at city hall, many in patronage jobs, and cut 425 jobs in the Newark Housing Authority, after a federal investigation found that the agency, a longtime source of political cronyism, was padding the payrolls with money designated for capital projects

Such efforts have sparked controversy, however, for most of those dismissed are African-American Newarkers, while new appointees have hailed from all walks of life and races. Booker discounts the critics, saying that he’s “tired of racial politics” and of “leaders wrapping themselves in kente cloth.”

 

[Pheonixops]

“People are dying on a chillingly regular basis in Newark, and there is no moral outrage,” says Booker.

"He’s also pushing school choice to shake up Newark’s appalling public schools"

So he began staging media events—dismissed as “stunts” by Mayor James—to draw attention to local ills, including camping out on street corners to spotlight the drug trade that openly flourished in the city. Booker also crossed party lines to seek solutions to Newark’s problems. With South Jersey Republican businessman Peter Denton, he cofounded the education-reform group E3, which advocated bringing more schooling alternatives—from charter schools to vouchers—to struggling inner-city kids. “When I first met Cory, school choice was still very controversial in Newark,” says Denton. “In black communities, it was understood as something that white Republicans supported. But Cory understood its importance right away and was willing to advocate for it.”
The city has a nearly 70 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate, and, as social scientists note, over half of all American kids born without a legal father will arrive in the world poor. Booker has called for “a chorus of moral voices” in the community to urge “an end to behavior that perpetuates poverty and economic isolation.”
More substantive efforts have followed. Booker has hired as his police director a top NYPD cop, Garry McCarthy, who led Gotham’s successful battle against the drug trade in Washington Heights, which combined stepped-up street patrols with community outreach, including cajoling landlords into fixing up abandoned buildings. Though criticized for bringing in a white outsider to run the police in a majority black city, Booker hasn’t flinched. He and McCarthy are reorganizing Newark’s oft-criticized department, long wracked by graft and ineptitude. The Newark Police Department has introduced a narcotics squad, a first in its history, and set up a special unit to chase down fugitives. “We used to have people released from jail and violating parole, and we didn’t bother to seek them out,” Booker says incredulously. In its first two months, the new unit apprehended 75 fugitives.

Booker also believes that instilling respect for the law is crucial in driving down crime. Newark has thus instituted sweeps of illegal gambling establishments, which for years have operated with impunity. “The message has to be sent that no one is above the law,” one of Booker’s deputy mayors said of the crackdown.

Booker also wants to slash the city’s workforce by 10 percent to 20 percent. He has already fired more than 60 people at city hall, many in patronage jobs, and cut 425 jobs in the Newark Housing Authority, after a federal investigation found that the agency, a longtime source of political cronyism, was padding the payrolls with money designated for capital projects

Such efforts have sparked controversy, however, for most of those dismissed are African-American Newarkers, while new appointees have hailed from all walks of life and races. Booker discounts the critics, saying that he’s “tired of racial politics” and of “leaders wrapping themselves in kente cloth.”

I don't see too many bad things being said by him and he says those things and has been proactive.

 

[Huey]

matthew is Black,always crying about Blacks,and too afraid to do something about them.