*Just realized how this could be misconstrued. I posted this because it was a good example of a kangaroo court. I.E. a superficial judicial system. I do not think that African-Americans that commit a crime should either be killed or exiled. To solve crime in the inner city you have to deal with it holistically. If someone commits violent crime lock them up. Stop locking up people for crimes that have no victim. Improve the schools. Bring in jobs. Start job training centers. Prevent employers from discriminating due to criminal history. Invest in anti-recidivism programs. Increase the hours that kids are at school. Increase the number of after school programs. Increase the number of community programs that will give kids something to do instead of just being lazy. Crack down on gangs. Destroy and repurpose unused housing. Destroy and rethink project housing so that we don't have concentrated areas of poverty. Increase the amount of low-income housing in wealthier neighborhoods. Start family programs where social workers work with families until they are on their own two feet and self-sufficient.
But all of this is abstract. Some programs and initiatives will work and others will fail. The government must approach the issue with a "Clarity of vision, but flexibility of progress." The how is not the issue. The issue is that we don't have the will. A good comparison to think about is how would this country fight a war. The generals wouldn't lay out the strategy before the war started and refuse to change their strategy if things turned sour. Rather they would make sure to have the best and most timely information and adjust as the War progressed. It's the same thing with this.
"What is needed today on the part of white America is a committed altruism which recognizes this truth. True altruism is more than the capacity to pity; it is the capacity to empathize. Pity is feeling sorry for someone; empathy is feeling sorry with someone. Empathy is fellow feeling for the person in need – his pain, agony and burdens. I doubt if the problems of our teeming ghettos will have a great chance to be solved until the white majority, through genuine empathy, comes to feel the ache and anguish of the Negroes’ daily life."
"The White liberal must affirm that absolute justice for the Negro simply means, in the Aristotelian sense, that the Negro must have “his due.” There is nothing abstract about this. It is as concrete as having a good job, a good education, a decent house and a share of power. It is, however, important to understand that giving a man his due may often mean giving him special treatment. I am aware of the fact that this has been a troublesome concept for many liberals since it conflicts with their traditional ideal of equal opportunity and equal treatment of people to their individual merits. But this is a day which demands new thinking and the reevaluation of old concepts. A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him in order to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis."
