dECADES LONG CIRCULAR PROGRESS IN jAMAICA AND USA.
POVERTY....

This is appalling. How dare John Anthony ( PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE TEXT THAT PROVOKES THIS REPLY)slander two nations?  These statistics need to be placed in the correct historical and social context. I am interested to know the method(s) used in collecting the data, as well as the characteristics of the data analysis that led to these conclusions. Nevertheless the root cause of most of these problems is economic inequality. Economic inequality is a systemic problem, one that can’t be solved by education alone. Most of the jobs being created are in the low wage sector which doesn’t require higher education.

Black people, having been subjected to an unspeakable act of barbarism,  are now trapped in low paid wage slavery. While some of the formal trappings of white supremacy have changed, racist political economy remains the same.

Many sociologists and criminal justice scholars have found a direct correlation between poverty and crime, eg, see 

 (Todd Clear (Imprisoning Communities, Oxford University Press)

Roger Houchin, a former Scottish prison Governor carried out a study which found a clear link between poverty and crime. He said the criminal justice plan should be linked to an anti-poverty campaign for Scotland. (BBC 24.01.2005)

Research commissioned by the Association of Chief Probation Officers found that young offenders were  “invariably poor, often destitute and barely able to muster significant resources to subsist.” These are not left wing researchers saying this, these are people in the system.

(Independent 17^th Feb. 1993)

Wilkinson & Pickett point put in “The Spirit Level: Why Equality is better for everyone” that ‘social problems’  (crime, imprisonment rates, mental illness) are far more common in unequal societies than ones with better economic distribution and less gap between the richest and the poorest.

Poverty is part of a much wider cycle of unemployment, stress, less effective schools and general hopelessness.

JA never looks back with any sense of history on the causes of these problems. Crime has social causes, injustice, poverty and repression breeds despair and anger. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Obviously different types of crimes are on different scales for JA. The  crimes of the powerful and the wealthy, especially their exploitation and oppression of the poor are  not recognised, nor legally defined as crime.

“White” collar crime is much more organized than holding up the betting shop.  Eg. bribery, insurance fraud, business scams, embezzlement, theft, employee discrimination, tax evasion, money laundering, forgery etc. JA has forgotten about  Bernie Madoff.

What about crimes of the state JA?– slavery, genocide, war crimes, human rights violations, pollution? Aren’t these crimes too?

JA dares to promote ‘marital status’ discrimination on the BlackList. Marriage cannot be separated from the political and cultural context in which it exists. Historically, Black people were not even allowed to marry, now over half of all marriages end in divorce. Which planet is JA living on? Marriage institutionalises an unequal relationship

between men and women. The institution of marriage plays an important role in the maintenance of capitalism and the state. It merely reproduces hierarchical relations and reinforces state power.

--- On Sat, 19/11/11, john anthony <jft3092@gmail.com> wrote:

From: john anthony <jft3092@gmail.com>
Subject: THE EDUCATION OF KAREN LEWIS AND THE BLACK STAR PROJECT. THE SCIENTIFIC DATA H IDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!
To: "KAREN LEWIS" <leadership@ctulocal1.com>, "The Black Star Project, USA" <blackstar1000@ameritech.net>, "Center for the Study of Race University of Chicago" <csrpc@uchicago.edu>, "UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS" <JFT3092@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, 19 November, 2011, 15:24

THE SCIENTIFIC DATA THAT EXPLAINS  AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JAMAICA'S PREDICAMENT OF  DECADES LONG CIRCULAR PROGRESS
 
Ben Johnson the former Olympic sprinter has been certified to be  of so low IQ that he sued some former advisers using his certified dunce state as his legal strategy to charge that he was taken advantaged of and bamboozled by his advisers.  In Jamaica where Ben Johnson was born, they passed  legislation that is supposed to solve the crime problem.  But wait a  minute; before a problem is to be solved the cause must be identified!   What is the cause of Jamaican world leading crime statistics and of the high African American crime rates?  Because of a spirit of delusion few know and of those who know fewer are bold enough to say.  In Jamaica one hears radio personality Perkins saying all the time that crime is caused by poverty and a lack of opportunity.  He has never presented any scientific data to back up the assertion  he has been singing for years and this is one of the most intelligent person on the island with hundreds of thousands of loyal listenners!
 
 Now you understand why Ben Johnson was a  dunce!  Locals develop belief systems from persons who reach conclusions based on...anything they want to use, partisanship, personal opinions, personal history, a desire to satisfy their boss, or to please the owner of a newspaper, etc.  anything except scienfitic data!      One can find so many current examples that contradicts the Perkinian doctrine of poverty it is beyond mental discovery why he has not been challenged and refuted comprehensively after so many decades of preaching.  Where Jamaica leads most countries of the world is in out of wedlock births and dysfunctional families!   African Americans are not far behind; cousins of a feather if you please.
 
This is the fact most African Americans and Jamaicans want to avoid.  There is no way they will ever attain long term prosperty with a 85% out of wedlock birth rate and the consequent widespread dysfunctional families, even if every one had a Ph.D. High  morals come first.  Why? Well the science gives us a clue.

THE DATA AFRICAN AMERICAN ELITE PRETENDS DOES NOT EXIST

 Effects of Fatherlessness (US Data)
1) BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS/ RUNAWAYS/ HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS/CHEMICAL ABUSERS/ SUICIDES
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.)
75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God's Children.)
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)
2) JUVENILE DELINQUENCY/ CRIME/ GANGS
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978)
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)
California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate. Vincent Schiraldi, Executive Director, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, "What Hallinan's Victory Means," San Francisco Chronicle (12/28/95).
These statistics translate to mean that children from a fatherless home are:
5 times more likely to commit suicide.
32 times more likely to run away.
20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders.
14 times more likely to commit rape
9 times more likely to drop out of high school.
10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution.
20 times more likely to end up in prison.
Juveniles have become the driving force behind the nation's alarming increases in violent crime, with juvenile arrests for murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault growing sharply in the past decade as pistols and drugs became more available, and expected to continue at the same alarming rate during the next decade. "Justice Dept. Issues Scary Report on Juvenile Crime," San Francisco Chronicle (9/8/95). "Crime Wave Forecast With Teenager Boom," San Francisco Chronicle (2/15/95).
Criminal behavior experts and social scientists are finding intriguing evidence that the epidemic of youth violence and gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family. "New Evidence That Quayle Was Right: Young Offenders Tell What Went Wrong at Home," San Francisco Chronicle (12/9/94).
3) TEENAGE PREGNANCY
"Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency." Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly (April 1993).
Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have children during their teenage years than are daughters from intact families. The Good Family Man, David Blankenhorn.
71% of teenage pregnanciesare to children of single parents. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
4) CHILD ABUSE
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that there were more than 1,000,000 documented child abuse casesin 1990. In 1983, it found that 60% of perpetrators were women with sole custody. Shared parentingcan significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
5) POVERTY
"The NationalFatherhood Institute reports that 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty." Melinda Sacks, "Fatherhood in the 90's: Kids of absent fathers more "at risk"," San Jose Mercury News (10/29/95).
"The feminization of povertyis linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle." David Levy, Ed., The Best Parent is Both Parents (1993).
6) KIDNAPPING
Family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-family abductions of 200-300. The parental abductions were attributed to the parents' disenchantment with the legal system. David Levy, Ed., The Best Parent is Both Parents(1993), citing a report from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice (May 1990).