"Black people are through, it's all done, the sky is falling, let's triage off 30% of the population, boo hoo hoo"
Our stats aren't great. But as far as everything getting worse and heading to destruction:
Homicide rates - down
Infant mortality - down
Teen Pregnancy - down
Fertility Rates - we are not going extinct
% children from unmarried women..this isn't great, but it's stable from where we were 20 years ago, not likely to increase. And Whites are pretty much at our rate between 1970-1980
And no, I don't trust the Heritage Foundation but these are based on gov't stats
College enrollment..up
Lowest rate of suicide...
Also, you know the education gap for White men vs. women passed us last decade?
FINALLY - the destruction of the family is a huge problem for Black America BUT we are not the only people this is a problem for. Except Asia, across the developing world, out of wedlock births as a percent of total are skyrocketing. Look at Sweden and Germany below (and no it is not the immigrants that sway these stats by far)
DON'T GET ME WRONG - our community situation is bad, from broken families, to lack of business ownership, to the still (though down) devastating gun violence that makes no fukking sense. I cry at night just thinking about it. But saying 'it's a wrap' and we should circle the wagons and reject all those who a select few think are not worthy to be saved is defeatist and vicious. If that is the way we will win we might as well buy Klan robes since they'd be happy to do that for us anyway.
I hate what is happening in many communities. I have lost friends and family to crime and drugs. I nearly got mugged and maybe shot in downtown Philly. I have worked in prison outreach. I don't have some simp Pollyanna view of our situation. But what I do know is that at every stage of our history in this country, some so-called 'enlightened' folks have predicted our demise and blamed it on the poorer population. If they would just go away it would be 'fine'. Simp nikkas who made peace with slavery, opposed the Great Migration, opposed any sort of ethnic pride. Since because they feel hopeless, they can decide who
can be saved.
We are 40 million people. The homicide plague of communities, my greatest heartache, since 1975 has killed about 250,000 people. Terrible, but about 1 out of 160. Horrible, but not leading to our extermination anytime soon. The numbers don't add up no matter how many mugshots we see on TV. Even if our homicide rate was the same as Whites, about 40,000 fam would still be dead. There is no utopia folks.
You all can move to your gated community if you want. Loving doom and gloom since you don't feel the courage to feel otherwise, but I'm out here fighting. I can't save everyone and unfortunately a lot are lost forever. But I won't give up until we win or I am 6 feet under.