David Craig, on May 13th, 2022Friday/weekend blog
Following my previous blog in which I pointed out that 89.5% of all African-Americans murdered in the USA were murdered by other African-Americans, a reader asked “why is there a high crime rate among black Americans?”
So, let me start to suggest an answer for the US and also make some observations about the UK.
What about Afro-American culture?
Let’s look at a few charts. We’ll start in the USA where all the recent Black Lives Matter looting, murder and mayhem started.
Here’s a chart of the percentage of children in the US by race born into single-parent families from 1940 to 2010 by main racial group:
More recent figures show that by 2018, the share of families headed by single parents had risen to 75% among African American families, 58% among Hispanic families, 37% among white families and 21% among Asian families.
Or how about this one? It’s the proportion of US children born out of wedlock:
I find the above figures both eye-opening and truly shocking. And, of course they’re never mentioned by the people playing the BLM blame game who keep screaming that Afro-Americans are victims of poverty and poor education and lack of opportunity and racism etc etc etc.
In an interview, African-American actor Denzel Washington said something along the lines of he was fortunate to have grown up in a home with both parents and to have been sent to a highly-disciplined school otherwise he would have possibly ended up on the street or in prison like many of his contemporaries.
I ain’t no sociologist. But I wonder if some of the underachievement of African-Americans has nothing at all to do with beastly Whites’ slavery or racism or whatever and everything to do with the total breakdown of the traditional family structure? Single-parent families are likely to be more economically-disadvantaged that two-parent families. Moreover, having no father has left far too many African-American children without a father role model and without parental guidance and control.
In addition, as the US doesn’t have a good social safety net for poorer families, I suspect that many Afro-American single mothers are working one or even two low-paid jobs to pay the rent and put food on the table. This would be a further factor leading to their children being unsupervised for much of the day and therefore more likely to fall in with gangs than children from two-parent families.
So, could it be the fact that over 75% of African Americans are born into single-parent households, rather than supposed racism, which has created a massive, too often criminal, Afro-American underclass?
Meanwhile back in Britain
The proportion of single parent families in the UK is much lower than in the US.
The single parent statistics published on the gov.uk site in 2019 show the percentage of different ethnic groups which were lone parents according to the 2011 census. Within each ethnic group monitored, the percentage of family types which are single parents were as follows: black (24%), mixed (19%), ‘other’ and white (both 10%) and Asian (8%).
But there’s another possibly interesting chart published by the Office for National Statistics
This shows the proportion of households by ethnic group which are ‘workless’. You’ll notice that the lowest number are in Indian (probably mostly Hindu or Sikh) households. You’ll also see which ethnic groups and religion have the highest number of workless households. For obvious reasons I will not comment on those as that would be ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ or both.
But if we’re really all ghastly ‘racists’ in Britain, it’s rather odd that Indian families seem to be much more successful than even white British families. A cynic might even conclude that the failure of certain ethnic or religious groups has nothing at all to do with supposed racism and everything to do with different cultures. A cynic might even conclude that Hindu families have a strong work ethic, a strong belief in the value of education and a strong belief that female children should have the same education and life chances as males. A cynic might even conclude that the relative failure in Britain of Blacks and our friends from our favourite religion compared to British Indian Hindus has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with culture.
Then there’s one more chart readers might find interesting. It shows the percentage of males and females from each ethnic group who go to university:
(If you left-click on the chart once, wait a few seconds and then left-click again, it becomes huge and blindingly legible)
The red bars are for children from deprived backgrounds – defined as receiving free school meals (FSM). The blue bars are for children from non-deprived households
This shows that starting at the most likely to go on to higher education are:
- Asian females
- Black females
- Mixed-race females
- Asian males
- White females
- Asian females from deprived backgrounds
- Black females from deprived backgrounds
- Black males
- Mixed-race males
- White males
- Black males from a deprived background
- Asian males from a deprived background
- Mixed-race females from a deprived background
- Mixed-race males from a deprived background
- White females from a deprived background
- White males from a deprived background
So there are four ethnic/sex groups more likely to go on to higher education than white females and nine ethnic/sex groups more likely to go on to higher education than white males. Moreover, Asian females from deprived backgrounds and black females from deprived backgrounds are more likely to go to university than black males from non-deprived backgrounds. There are other interesting conclusions you can draw from this chart yourselves.
Perhaps all the idiotic, West-hating, fascist, ignorant, mutton-headed twats from Black Lives Matter and those ‘taking the knee’ could explain how so many more people from different ethnic groups than white ethnic Brits in Britain are going on to higher education if we’re all Klu Klux Klan, BNP mouth-frothing racists and all BAME people in Britain are horrifically oppressed?
From what I can see from the two UK-based charts above, there are so many opportunities for BAME people in Britain – even for those from deprived backgrounds – that some groups are now starting to outperform white ethnic British.
As for those groups which are failing to take advantage of those opportunities – I humbly suggest that is their fault and their fault alone and nothing to do with supposed white racism.
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Thanks for those statistics, but they don’t explain why the problems and difference between races exist. This is why I suggested a Bayesian network analysis is needed because this allows probabilities to be allocated to the various factors that determine crime and murder rates, or other outcomes. Then effort can be prioritised to solve the problem, but who is going to solve the problems. The politicians and community leaders are the cause of these problems.
You mentioned the BLM riots and yesterday I tried to find out more of what Thomas Sowell has to say on these issues. I found a video where he was discussing riots and his view is that anything can start a riot and the real issue is how to stop them. His answer is police force and then he says next day the police and politicians will be criticised for using excess force. So what can be done. In America it resulted in calls to defund the police. The people who riot and damage property are the ones who don’t own any property. This is why we often see property rights at the centre of some political thought. We know how the UK government likes to tax our property and they are making it more and more difficult for the young to save and own property.
Who is to blame for single parent families and children born out of wedlock? When I was younger this was considered unacceptable and rarely seen. There were some single parent families because of war deaths but the families stayed together usually living with grandparents for the support needed. Sowell believes the cause is increased welfare, which was started by Johnson in the USA. In the UK the influence of the church has declined and it now seems to encourage what it previously considered to be a sin. The government has embraced equality and so anything goes. How can this change when it is being actively encouraged?
You list access to university education but often we hear how pointless this has become, resulting mainly in debt rather than education. Sowell has addressed this issue as well, particularly at top universities in the USA. He says they are being forced to take a quota of black students who will be excellent but not to the standard of white students so they end up with a worse education. He points out that there are black students at top universities who do benefit but this is because they are from professional backgrounds. He says education has become worse at all levels compared to the 1930s when he was at school because it is not related to the background and needs of the students.
I don’t know what it is like in UK schools today but walking past my local primary school at the end of the day is to be avoided. Their behaviour and complete lack of control by their parents is astonishing. I suspect a lot of this is due to schools being mainly run by women. There are no male role models for children in school and probably not at home. Then look at the influence that TV and the internet has on children and of course adults. It is wall to wall nonsense, violence and the problems discussed in this blog.
I cannot imagine how this will end.
I found this link about Sowell’s book “Intellectuals and Race” which gives more background:
https://voegelinview.com/thomas-sowell-in-intellectuals-and-race/
There are hints of solutions, but I think Sowell has said he tries to identify the problems but it is not for him to propose the solutions. I think Douglas Murray and others have said the same. They don’t want to enter politics because they know they will be dragged into the swamp.
Information on the breakdowns the make-up of students going to university is of little worth unless further broken down into what the students are studying. The less able students study the easiest subjects.
For example, more females are going to university than males, but what are the females and males studying?
Most of the males are probably studying the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and most of the females are not, preferring arts and design, social sciences (sociology, psychology, etc.), health and social care and languages. Obviously the males are getting the best value for their money.
If students are getting into huge levels of debt for studying Mickey Mouse degrees, are they really that bright or well-informed or previously well-educated by a school education?
The liberal decadents who are now running the west (into the ground) always put an ostensibly virtuous face on everything they are getting up to that hide their real socially-destructive aims.
How the quest for diversity is wrecking
higher education in Britain –
“The desire to have more black students in the best universities and for them to be awarded first class degrees is the real, although unspoken, aim when people mention ‘diversity and inclusion’ in connection with British universities. Unfortunately, such initiatives serve only to lower the quality of education for all.”