They turn on WREG, WMC, or Fox13 and the first headline is a murder in Frayser. The second is a robbery at the Avenue in Collierville. The third is how someone on the school board/city council/public utility got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It’s sad, but unsurprising.

That's just people being people. Even, maybe especially, white people. We are all murder apes who won the Ice Age sweepstakes. There's no "solving" that.

Yes. My point is they’re inundated with information about crime at the local level. And crime is a problem. But Memphis is also following the Baltimore model, and will probably see similar results. It just takes time to fix.

Getting more factories or other main industries might not solve everything, but it will be better than it has been in 45 years. That's a fucking promise.

We are getting factories and industries?

That we don't is why shit stays sour, rotten. It was the New Deal that pulled us out of the Great Depression and enabled us to win WWII w/ that fabulous post WWII Middle Class. That ended 45 years ago. By contrast, Germany got bombed to shit but is the economic powerhouse of Europe.

Why? The Marshall Plan which inculcated the ethos of the New Deal. Germany kept it's manufacturing sector and maintained a strong Labor movement. Further never had a Reagan or a Maggot Thatcher. Instead we had Reaganomic Social Darwinism, the death of unions and flight of manufacturing.

Additionally, Reagan owed Iran so he flooded the inner cities w/ Central American cocaine. When that blossomed in to a Crack and Gang epidemic, he convinced the whites that that's just how Black folks are. Which is why we still have Random Summary Executions of Black men women and children.

What Americans need is money in their pockets. That creates job, raises tax revenue, allows communities to afford quality education. Food deserts, on the other hand, increase violence because we become violent when we are hungry.

And factories and industries won’t change the problem, either.

Your age please?