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Bloomberg: 95% of Murders Involve Minority Men
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On February 8, 2015 @ 12:12 pm In The Point | 57 Comments
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Even a broken bleeding heart billionaire can be right twice a day. And Bloomberg, to his credit, followed up on crime. De Blasio’s reign of terror has been quite a contrast.
On education, Bloomberg said the U.S. should deliver the kind of schooling that will help people become self-sustainable and increase a sense of dignity. If a person has the option of going to Harvard or becoming a plumber, he said he would suggest thinking about the plumbing career.
“The Harvard graduate on average will never catch up to a plumber,” Bloomberg said. “Partially because the first four years — instead of spending $60,000, you make $60,000.”
So is Bloomberg going Peter Thiel? His comment is sort of right, but basically clueless.
The kind of person on track for Harvard probably shouldn’t become a plumber. The problem is that the College-for-All progs route people who could make good money as plumbers into a low end college and a pile of student loan debt for a worthless degree.
Moderator Jennifer Bradley, director of the Center for Urban Innovation at the Institute, then asked what the U.S. can do to get people out of poverty. Bloomberg responded that conventional wisdom points to education, but education isn’t going to help uneducated adults. Bradley later asked how government can offer basic fairness to the children “who have been failed.”
Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.
“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said. “They just don’t have any long-term focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”
At one point, the former mayor brought up New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices, which gained national attention in 2011. Bloomberg said that during his last year in office, a minister at a Baptist church in Harlem invited him to speak.
“While I’m sitting there waiting for him to introduce me, he said to his congregation, ‘You know, if every one of you stopped and frisked your kid before they went out at night, the mayor wouldn’t have to do it,’” Bloomberg said. “And so I knew I was going to be okay with that audience.”
It’s a good line. I haven’t checked his statistics, but he’s saying the unsayable, which is that our gun problem is really a gang problem and it’s based out of minority areas.
In response Bloomberg waged a Jihad against the 2nd Amendment and took on the NRA, neither of which are actually the issue. This is a snapshot of how progressives went wrong in the first place back in the day. Bloomberg is very much a throwback to that. He does address problems that actually exist, in the worst way possible. (This is still an improvement over modern progressives who address problems that don’t exist.)
If Bloomberg wants to deal with young black men shooting each other, Moms Demand and attacking Democrats who support gun ownership, certainly isn’t the solution.
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