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   the attacks on police understaffing and ignored the evident   
   racial hatred that was the most salient aspect of the attacks).   
   This year’s installments of the usual flash mob rampages on   
   Chicago’s Magnificent Mile and in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor have   
   also been ignored. If the race of perpetrators and victims in   
   any of these incidents were reversed, there would be a universal   
   uproar, with public figures across the board denouncing “white   
   supremacist” violence and calling for a national reckoning   
   regarding white racism. But because the violence does not fit   
   the standard narrative about American race relations, it is kept   
   carefully off stage.   
      
   In 2008, Barack Obama was able to connect such lawlessness to   
   family breakdown. “Children who grow up without a father are   
   five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine   
   times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more   
   likely to end up in prison,” he pointed out in his Chicago   
   speech. Today’s taboo on acknowledging the behavioral roots of   
   criminal-justice system involvement, multi-generational poverty,   
   and the academic-achievement gap is not a civil rights advance.   
   To the contrary, it will ensure that racial disparities persist,   
   where they can be milked by opportunistic politicians and   
   activists seeking to parade their own alleged racial sensitivity   
   and to deflect attention away from the cultural changes that   
   must occur for full racial parity to be realized.   
      
   https://www.city-journal.org/democratic-candidates-racism-crime   
      
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