Talk:Legal charity
A social safety net through governments provided by force or coercion actually degenerates the people and destroys the character of those they claim a desire to help. "Legal charity" through the state will degenerate the fabric of society required to maintain a free and viable nation. Neither of these debaters understand the problem enough to find the solution. http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Legal_charity
Counting Crimes
There are politicians, protesters and pundits who gather and share statistics correlating the numbers with the cause of what is conveniently identified as a problem in society.
But correlation alone is not proof of the cause without understanding the processes of the individual minds and their effects upon the crowd psychology of society as a group.
The Race in America, a Holy Post video by Phil Vischer correlates what appears to be an impressive list of statistics which he seems to claims prove the cause of the plight of American Black community is racism.
"I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. – Booker T Washington
Different view - same statistics:
* America Is Less Racist Today Than Ever Before including comments by Condoleezza Rice narrated by Larry Elder
https://www.prageru.com/video/america-is-less-racist-today-than-ever-before/
* Larry Elder and facts about racism and profiling in America
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-america-racist/
* Facts matter
https://www.facebook.com/127225910653607/posts/3236873216355512/
* Are the Police Racist? by Heather Mac Donald
https://www.prageru.com/video/are-the-police-racist/
* Cops Are the Good Guys
https://www.prageru.com/video/cops-are-the-good-guys/
* The Left Wants to Keep Racism Alive
In America, there's a card more valuable than any card from Visa or American Express. What is it? How can you get one? Candace Owens answers these questions and explains why the Left continually invokes racism.
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-left-wants-to-keep-racism-alive/
While Phil's video is polished the facts can be misleading because it is missing a basic understanding of the key factors in the individual and social development of communities as the root causes of why they break down. His presentation is not alone in its misconception of the cause and effect for societal decay.
"A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected." – Booker T Washington
Many of the statistics presented by pundits who point to racism as the problem are used by their opponents to prove another cause for the effects we see.
There are those that like quoting that "In 2018, black people were three times more likely to be killed by police than were whites." That sounds terrible but is it because of racism?
What they fail to mention is that Black commit more than 5 times the crimes as whites including almost 50 percent of the murders even though they only account for 12% of the population.
In 2016 there were 6676 murders in the USA, 3176 were committed by blacks and 3196 by whites. Blacks are only 12% but commit almost 50% of the murders. How is that possible?
And white account for the other half of the murders but are more than half at 61% of the population. In 2016 there were 777 interracial homicides. 553 were committed by Blacks. Why are blacks committing more homicides?
Statistics also show that about 68 to 85% of all interracial homicides are committed by Blacks even though they are only 12% of the population. Historically speaking black people are not more violent than white people so the present statistics of who is most violent has nothing to do with race.
So what is causing this extreme inequality in murder and violent crimes rates if it is not racial? and what about police killings?
The FBI counted 435 “justifiable homicides” by police officers in 2016, and in 429 of the cases, the person had a firearm when killed.
Police killed 1,165 people in 2018. Seeing that the police are called to get to the most dangerous part of town and confront the most dangerous people in your community as quickly as possible it would seem that more people would likely die in a nation of 320,000,000 people.
More than 250,000 people in the US die every year because of medical mistakes, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer and doctors are not endanger of being shot, stabbed or over powered, nor do they have to wrestle their patience to the ground, subdue them, and take them into custody.
In 2017, police killed 19 unarmed black males, down from 36 in 2015, according to The Washington Post. There were 66 in 2016 police officers were “feloniously” killed but 135 died in the line of duty.
How many lives do police officers save every year by direct action? How many do they save by their presence?
"A recent “deadly force” study by Washington State University researcher Lois James found that police officers were less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white or Hispanic ones in simulated threat scenarios. Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer analyzed more than 1,000 officer-involved shootings across the country. He concluded that there is zero evidence of racial bias in police shootings. In Houston, he found that blacks were 24 percent less likely than whites to be shot by officers even though the suspects were armed or violent." [https://www.facebook.com/127225910653607/posts/3236873216355512/ Are the Police Racist? by Heather Mac Donald
Causes and Cures
The real cause of riots is Legal charity which divides communities, erodes the family and degenerates the people.
The crime, and therefore arrests, incarceration, and violent conflict in the Black community between each other and the police is not due to racism as much as it is due to the breakdown of the Black family.
We do not need to talk about race as much a we need to talk about why families are breaking down. There is certainly racism in the world today but after a hundred years of slavery and a pronounced system of slavery the Black families were never more strong. The Black community had 3% single parent families 40 years after slavery. A hundred years later 75% of black children are raised in a single parent family.
While many programs and practices can be mentioned that seem at first glance to correlate with community problems the actual cause must be somewhere else. If you have not properly identified the problem you cannot be expected to identify the solution.
An amazing fact is that the cause of societal decay has been known and well documented for centuries. The warnings are rampant in history that the people are weakened, even destroyed by the free bread provided by the power and authority of governments who force the contributions of the people.
The effect of such covetous practices upon the character of the people has been clearly defined and passed down to us for centuries from historians like Polybius, satirist like Juvenal and politicians like Cicero.
But also the prophets, John the Baptist, and the apostles. And of course Christ himself directed his followers to not be like those benefactors who exercise authority through the willfulness of the people.
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." Booker T Washington
It is true that people need to care but they must do so in a way that "strengthens the poor"[1] and not in ways that degenerates their society and the people into perfect savages.
"I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. – Booker T Washington
The election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 led to a shift of black voting loyalties from Republican to Democrat. As Roosevelt's New Deal programs seemed to offer economic relief to many Black and Whites suffering from the Great Depression.
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." Booker T Washington
The Legal charity of the State provided by forced contributions kills care.
- "The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least." – Booker T Washington
That alone undermined American conservative values which had focused on the rights endowed by the Creator upon the individual. It would take many others directing this New Deal philosophy to the Black community that would make them the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
People like Saul Alinski with his Rules For Radicals and the Cloward-Piven Plan targeted the Black community in 1966 with the ideology of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis and eventually unleashing chaos and violence in the streets.
Cloward and Piven "proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy." [2]
"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." Booker T Washington
They admittedly understood that public welfare, like the free bread of Rome weakened the poor by providing an all to convenient social safety net which worked as an opiate of the people. [3]
The roots of the welfare state began with FDR and was targeted at the Black community by LBJ to secure their vote, by Cloward and Piven and many others to secure power, all with a callous disregard for the individual, their families and their rights.
Governments are created by man, not men by governments. You cannot legislate morality nor force charity and love unless you are willing to become tyrant.
- “If we want better people to make a better world, then we will have to begin where people are made in the family.” J.M. Braude.
Taxation
Taxation is not charity. It is force. The more you depend upon it the more subject you are to it. True charity is the freewill choice to help others which makes you more capable of helping yourself.
Government charity is often over generous with that which they took from others. Private charity is careful with what was entrusted to them by others.
Phil Fischer's video is not only misleading but is missing a basic understanding of individual and social development and the cause for societal decay known for centuries. Many of the statistics in the video are not the effect of the programs and laws mentioned but the effect of the programs and practices he failed to mention and even appears to be encouraging.
The reason he does not know the solution, which he admits, is because he has not identified the problem.
He is right about people needing to care but if you want go fix society we need to care in away that "strengthens the poor"[4] and not in ways that degenerates their society, which again he appears to promote.
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities" Lucius Mestrius Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus c. 100 AD.
But more important Jesus is going to tell them get ye from me you workers of iniquity I never Knew you.
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Benjamin Franklin said "War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is, Revolution is when you decide that for yourself."
- ↑ Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." This was an indictment of Israel because it failed to abide by Leviticus 25:35 "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee."
- ↑ Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote in the book The Road Not Taken. Brunner Routledge. pp. 144–146. ISBN 1-58391-025-5.
- ↑ "Socialism is the religion you get when you lose your religion.”
- ↑ Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." This was an indictment of Israel because it failed to abide by Leviticus 25:35 "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee."