Reply #85: Well, this is totally unscientific [View All]

[AngryAmish]

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. Rich stay away from poor, blacks from whites, etc. They majority of the murders in Chicago are gang and drug related. I heard that only 6% of murder victims were white in 2003. When the top of the power structure is white, and it is only minorities who get killed, then the powers that be do not care. Also, the most put upon people in the City are blacks and Hispanics (Chicago is roughly 1/3 black, 1/3 Hispanic and 1/3 white - lots of other people too, but these are the big ones.) But blacks and Hispanics do not vote as often as white people - probably because they have been screwed so hard and so often they figure that there is no point in being politically active. If you do not effect the jobs of the leadership then you do not count. By not voting, their jobs are safe.

If the people being killed were white and wealthy you bet that the rate would go down. But, as it is, nobody cares.