Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "CNBC"
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I'm seeing a lot of ugly racism in these comments and not a lot of awareness that the problem perpetuates itself. If you grow up in a bad area and your parents have problems, you are probably going to have problems also. If you're hungry, you're going to steal. If you don't get an education, if you don't have adults in your life who are supportive and nurturing and educate you, you're going to grow up the same way. That doesn't mean it's your fault, it's a societal failing. Blaming the child or the teen for falling into the same pitfalls as their parents when there are no adults to counter it is racism. Poverty and lack of education, lack of opportunity, hunger and abuse are not racial issues.
We have to do better by the people who are stuck in these areas. We have to do better by their kids. Sitting back and saying "Oh it's the black community's fault, they should do better" doesn't solve the problem.
When you live in a society there are rights and responsibilities. Freedom comes with the responsibility to help take care of each other. Rather than sitting back and blaming people for doing bad deeds, we need to fix the problem so that they don't feel that that's the only way out, that stealing is what has to happen in order to eat.
This is not to say that any individual store has to go to an area and lose money. This is an issue for the government to step in and help resolve until it can become more sustainable for companies to come in. Even when they do, I've seen prices in these stores higher for lesser items than they are in the supermarket where I live. If you're going to call the black community out for bad behavior, call the corporations out for predatory practices as well.
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