not too many years ago i wouldn't have given this essay any validity but these days it seems to be quite accurate, unfortunately, and i was in part raised by a man i fully respect whose parents were born slaves in virginia;

Growing up in Detroit in the 1990s, adults always told me that whites had left the city simply because they were racist. Even as a child, that explanation always sounded odd to me, but I heard it so often that I just accepted it as fact. Nobody ever mentioned crime as one of the reasons so many whites had fled for the suburbs, but it was everywhere. Shootings, robberies, and carjackings were the norm — and almost always committed by young black men. Violent fights were commonplace at my high school, even though it was across the street from a police precinct. It wasn’t uncommon to see cops ushering students out of the building in handcuffs during a school day. My dad attended that same high school in the 1970s. At the time, it was still majority white and one of the best schools in Detroit. When I attended it in the early 2000s, it was majority black and one of the worst in the city.

Everyone was told that black men are no more dangerous than anyone else and that you are an ignorant racist if you think otherwise. Yet, people called my city “the murder capital of America” and there was no question as to who was committing these murders. Even Detroit’s funeral home directors occasionally got together to beg black men to stop the slaughter as bullet riddled corpses were a daily fixture of their businesses — and they still do.

Eventually, I moved to Milwaukee. It was the same story there. That’s how I discovered that there was nothing unique about the city I was raised in, it was just part of a pattern. In every dangerous city, there was a large population of blacks. But there weren’t any majority white or East Asian areas in America where violent street crime was as rampant. I discovered this was true not only in the US, but around the world. Whether it’s a black neighborhood in London, the nation of Haiti, or the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, you see the exact same issues: crime, corruption, poverty. Seeing this pattern made me realize that there are innate biological differences between the races — and that these differences have consequences.........read more........