Fine. If blacks have a higher rate of crime than other races I argue that it is the fault of the public education system - the government. There is no doubt in my mind that the educational opportunitiies of blacks and of whites are a million miles apart.
The way to rectify this situation is focus on the education of our young blacks rather than force busineses to hire those the government failed to educate. I do think New Orleans is a very good city to look at to consider the overall problem.
I don't know where to begin a response here...
First off, the public education system moreso at the state and local levels than at the federal level has manipulated the "system" for years in favor for people of one particular race over another. Redistricting, for example, isn't just about state and federal politics. It's also about segmentation (which is the new "segregation"). This is a concept that still baffles alot of people, but simply put if you can change the school district lines to be favorable for a particular school system, you can exclude certain people (or schools entirely) thereby taking financing from one area and giving it to another. It happens all the time all across America. Sometimes, it's the right thing to do because you do have poor economic districts riddled with crime and low housing/property rates and schools that under-perform. But then there are those situations where the school is doing well but for one reason or another enrollment falls off, perhaps because residents have just gotten older and the number of children in a particular area has declined. That's the situation in my neighborhood right now. Crime is low as is home vacancies, yet the residents in my community are just getting older. Their kids are now grown and have moved on but their parents remain. So, enrollment falls off and the school system feels it has to redraw district lines to shift children from one school district to the next. Has nothing to do with under-performing schools or crime.
Now, to your issue of crime -vs- education, again the education system has nothing to do with that. It's not a teacher's job to teach good moral behavior. That's on the parents! But you are correct; the education opportunities among the races is vastly different and that's brought on moreso by family economic circumstances and/or minorities not being well (enough) informed of their education opportunities or, to be more specific, knowing that there are other ways one can go to college besides sports. Unfortunately, that route to higher education, fame and economic prosperity is STILL being pushed onto more blacks than whites in many areas around the country. But to blame the education system for crime is ridiculous!!!
People have to believe there's more to life than what they see right outside their door. If the only thing (poor) people see is crime and they rarely, if ever, are shown another way to live, can you expect them to every do better for themselves or society? And what if society abandons them, just writes their neighborhood off as being hopeless or manipulated things to such a degree that minorities where fighting an uphill battle for prosperity from the start?
These are the kinds of things I wrote about in a thread that's in the
Off Topic forum on racism that people simply refuse to acknowledge happens even today. It's shameful. We as a nation can do better.