As an observer, I really wonder if this isn’t at least as much about income disparity as it is about race. Conservative media would go ballistic at the notion, and would trot out their favourite “wealth redistribution” lines, but to get to the heart of the problem what is needed is tax reform to keep the capital and jobs at home and considerably higher tax rates on the wealthy. Loosen up those vast pools of wealth at the top to invest in infrastructure, science, education, medical, the environment. Employ people in productive labor; give the poor and the underprivileged an opportunity to be productive contributing members of society. A job and opportunity will go a long way toward solving what many think to be social or racial problems. The alternative is a generation of young with nothing much better to do than to steal, resist, riot, burn, and loot. The old world has seen this before, except they had a new world to go to.
As an observer, I really wonder if this isn’t at least as much about income disparity as it is about race. Conservative media would go ballistic at the notion, and would trot out their favourite “wealth redistribution” lines, but to get to the heart of the problem what is needed is tax reform to keep the capital and jobs at home and considerably higher tax rates on the wealthy. Loosen up those vast pools of wealth at the top to invest in infrastructure, science, education, medical, the environment. Employ people in productive labor; give the poor and the underprivileged an opportunity to be productive contributing members of society. A job and opportunity will go a long way toward solving what many think to be social or racial problems. The alternative is a generation of young with nothing much better to do than to steal, resist, riot, burn, and loot. The old world has seen this before, except they had a new world to go to.