You say I either have to blame democrats or blame minorities. Either welfare causes complacency or "majority minority" communities are to blame. First, there are just as many drug dealers per capita in rural Missouri, but they sell meth and get arrested once for every 10 black men selling marijuana. That's because their father knows the sheriff and they talk it out, which is sometimes a better way to go about it if you treat EVERYBODY that way and enforce the law in a fair, transparent way. We have never had universal healthcare. I said start with education, housing and healthcare to solve the problem. Student debt - Biden promised, wasn't addressed. State college should be basically free like it was for every other generation until mine. My brother spent a half million dollars going to law school and he was so burned out he needed a year off. That was it, his life was over. He's a teacher who is still is debt and should pay it all off around the time he's 80 if he's alive.
Healthcare, Obama didn't give us a public option, we were told the ACA would lead to death panels, the ACA is incredibly popular and what people want is a public option. Republicans overwhelmingly want universal healthcare (60%) but it doesn't happen. Housing was denied to minorities by the government until very recently. We had a president who was a primary cause of racial segregation for decades in New York. Red Lining was very real, can't be denied, and the income inequality is all about a huge range of issues that the government doesn't address because democrats don't have to and republicans refuse to.
And if I was wrong about Kansas City I remembered incorrectly. You can pick a city, but I looked up "most conservative cities," it said scottsdale, so I googled scottsdale homicide rate and here's the article i first saw:
The national homicide rate jumped 30 percent in the first year of the pandemic — the largest year-to-year increase in 100 years, data shows.
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