The Major Issue Prevalent In The Black Community

    I understand that what I am about to say may be bring some criticism toward me by those of whom don't or wont listen to what I have to say, but luckily I'm talking to AP students and not twitter so I should be fine. 

    Throughout late May and early July the protests, riots, and whatever the hell CHAZ was, have been going on. The reason being is due to the manslaughter of George Floyd by an Officer in Minneapolis while others Officers stood by. Eventually a few names were brought up during the entire thing such as Breonna Taylor, Raysard Brooks, and others of who's cases are an entirely different post. That is not what this is about however, what I'm trying to address is about the problems of which groups such as BLM have been pushing such as the fact that the biggest problem facing the black community is police brutality. I do not agree with that statement for several reason which I will speak about in an entirely different post. The main problem facing the Black Community is poverty created by different old and new government policies. To further contextualize, back during the area of Jim Crow black people were usually kept in mainly poorer areas and were denied loans by banks of which would allow them to get houses in more suburb areas than urban areas with an example being Compton. However once Jim Crow laws were repealed the problem was still prevalent within the black community. Why you may ask? Well the answer is simple, the poverty issue with these urban areas. Due to the fact that very little large business would be conducted in these areas it became more of a difficulty to acquire jobs within the area. This became worse when American industries started moving away from the nation to produce products in foreign countries such as Vietnam or China due to cheap labor. So with no factories or large superstores such as malls or Walmarts  what began happening is that local politicians and state politicians began to give out welfare to the black people within these regions. However that also created the problem of a heavy reliance in the government which led to welfare families which is generations of people being on welfare instead of creating their own wealth through their work. Another problem that rose because of this is that some thought that the welfare wasn't enough so they decided to instead resort to crime to further their own economic growth, and it didn't help that during the 70s, 80s, and 90s the government had a large scale war against narcotics which was meet with heavy punishment and led to larger incarceration rates causing the large spike in crime within the black communities.  Black communities still suffer from the effects of welfare and the drug war to this day. Now the solution wouldn't be to legalize all drugs since some like PCP do present a very big danger, but less effective drugs like weed should be legalized but that's another argument.  The other thing that I want to address is how the increased crime rate is going to cause more police to enter the area to enforce the law seeing that these areas would be controlled by drug kingpins without police presence, so the idea of getting rid of police in these areas would be a very slippery slope. Nevertheless, this would explain why so many blacks are incarcerated compared to any other race if we look at the statistics about incarceration rates. 

    With all this being said, what is the solution? And to that I would say it involves education, bringing back factories, and ending welfare. To clarify the first step about education should be to improve education by moving the money used on the welfare system to education. What I mean by this should be pretty clear but if not then let me explain with an example. I personally have two friends one of which is in this blog, Estalin, and both of them went to a school in Compton (Rosa Parks) during their elementary years. From the few stories I've heard the school sounded like a PR nightmare. Apparently they used yellow paper for assignments because they couldn't afford white paper, and the school as well of a few stories that I don't remember since we were playing video games while exchanging life stories. If the school couldn't afford paper, imagine the teachers resources they had to work with. So therefore if we improved the funding of poorer schools in black communities as well as other poor communities, then the resources students could work with would be much better giving them the opportunity to further their education and instead of becoming reliant on welfare or gangsters they become prominent members of societies. When it arrives to why bringing back factories would help it all comes down to the fact that sometimes some students aren't as smart as others, and yes I know that's mean but its the truth. The factories would provide a form of labor of which would benefit the american worker as well as bringing jobs to the black communities, but wait there's more!! By bringing factories to these areas restaurants, malls, and larger market chains which would begin to enter these communities and bring outside business to the area further benefiting the economy in the region. As for getting rid of welfare it sounds like a bad idea, but if you think about it welfare is the real oppressor of the black community as it doesn't allow for people to master a craft or become self reliant further weakening them; it simply is unamerican to do so as it strips them from capitalist ventures. A final question you may be asking is how this will end the large presence of police in these areas? Well to that I say this one simple thing. That if an area has a good economy and the people are mainly honest working and don't rely on drugs to grow their wealth, then there will be less police patrolling the area because its mainly peaceful bringing down the crime rate within the area which will lead to the creation of a peaceful suburb. The key wasn't to move out of these black communities, but rather improve them from the inside to bring the suburbs to the people.    

    Now I understand this is easier said than done, but its not impossible and if done could improve the lives of millions in this nation. So to the reader I ask, what are your thoughts on this plan? What would you add to it or what would you remove? Do yo agree or disagree?