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re #1
 WHY is the crime
 rate higher in the black community?

The crime rate is higher in lower income communities.  Lower law enforcement
budgets and less opportunities for income are a formula for crime.

Disproportionate punishment again falls on the lower income community
having less qualified public defense and less than desirable recruitment
of its law enforcement.  It's a money thing.
A racist thing?  That's a symptom but as Terry Crews points out there is
plenty of finger pointing to go around on cause/perpetrator.
I believe lower income communities are underserved and illserved by their
local elected officials creating a larger impact than peripheral
racial intent by those outside its community.  This is from experience
growing up in Detroit where it was dog eat dog politics.  The school board
and city council DO NOT CARE.  People don't vote logically.
How to fix that?  Get thee the hell out of urban decay and poor mental
attitude society.  Changing one's democraphic surroundings is literally
the most direct way to change things.  Flint MI is a prison, an 
institution, and a cancer.  It'd be hard to blame it on racism as much
as it has to do with organized crime controlling government.

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