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I assumed that systemic oppression had caused poverty which led to increased crime rates in black US populations. But

wrote a fantastic piece I'm just now seeing in which they find this is not the case; it seems to be fatherlessness. 1/ randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/rac

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Sep 14, 2020

When controlling for poverty, black people still have higher crime rates - but this is not really the case if you control for *single motherhood*; as in, poor black communities with lots of fathers don't have more crime. Cool - if this is true, this seems useful! But- 2/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Sep 14, 2020

Why is there such high fatherlessness? Black people tend to cheat more, which is probably a piece to this puzzle, but it only kicks the can farther down the road - *why* do they cheat more? When and how did this disparity start? 3/ ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheat

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Sep 14, 2020

Black people are more religious pewforum.org/religious-land and more socially conservative pewforum.org/fact-sheet/cha which I would have guessed predicts greater monogamy and 'nuclear family', but seems not to be the case. How long has this been going on? 4/

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Sep 14, 2020

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-A This has some theories: *African culture emphasizes extended networks, not fatherhood *Something something welfare? *Incarceration? But why didn't this create fatherlessness/cheating/broken families for white people in similar situations?

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Right, but I'm a little unclear on original causation here; as in, why didn't this cycle happen to high crime white communities? I'm under the impression that there isn't significant enough racial bias in the justice system to be the full explanation.

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I think it's a cycle of fatherlessness stemming from around the 40s-50s when many black men would get arrested for basically nothing, leaving generations without many positive male role models, combined with other factors like terrible public education, caused what we have today

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White single marriage rates have increased, but to knowledge, there aren’t high-crime white communities which have the same geographic concentration and incarceration rates as black communities.

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Are you able to look at narrower racial/immigration cohorts than "white"/"black"? I'm thinking Sicilian/Irish and (modern) Nigerian in particular. Dunno enough about colonial and early US immigration waves to name any. Rough thesis is that it's "post-enslaved".

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You should watch the last

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podcast on JRE, Bret delved into this from an evolutionary standpoint as to what happens when you displace a population from one place to another. Really fascinating stuff