I'll say again, I think people are responsible for their own actions. I think we agree on that. I am not in a million years looking to excuse the shootings.

That being said, it seems a bit off, to make a study of the moral failings of a group that has been systematically debased and disadvantaged and exploited, from their arrival to the present, and not to take serious stock of the grievous moral failures that have been done to them. It sometimes seems that every time one mentions some crime done to Black people, the response offered is that they deserve it, in a sense, that they incurred the harm as a result of their own deficiencies. Predatory lending is only an issue because they lack good sense. The schools would be fine, if the students new how to act right. Families would be strong, if the parents were proper parents. There wouldn't be issues with policing, if they weren't so very criminal and dangerous. There's a general failure to take personal responsibility. 

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