22. "The murder rate plummets (even more) if it goes into effect." In response to In response to 0
- Way fewer black men caught up in the CJS, too.
- More of us can then vote and have a voice at the polls.
- Even fewer teenage pregnancies allow young people to have a fighting chance at a middle class life.
- Our household capital gets saved and spent more productively by focusing on the future and not just on the now (this might not be a RP thing, though).
You asked about Eric Garner. This is a trap. The cop was in violation of NYPD guidelines by putting him in a chokehold, and he definitely resorted to the chokehold because of racist stereotypes about the Big Black Brute. But selling loosies is against the law. That's no excuse for EG's death, though.
- Would it change racist majority attitudes about us? Not as much as we'd like, it at all. But we engage in a lot of self defeating behavior that's uncalled for. I get the impression that you disagree with that point - that you believe that our problems 100% lie outside of our control. *If* you believe that, then it makes sense that you'd reject the aims of respectability politics wholesale.