Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Here's the Problem With the George Floyd Protests..." video.

  1. The problem isn't the prison-industrial-complex, it's the recidivism rate. Once someone does time, regardless of race, their chances of returning to that cell are high because they wear a scarlet letter. People in fashionable places don't like to talk about that aspect but the truth of the matter is they wouldn't let an ex-con within 50 yards of their home or business. I have a bit of experience with his because I grew up with guys who went away. The coach of my little league team did 30 + years and I went on a few trips with him to halfway houses and meetings of ex-offenders. It's not that prisons exist, it's that we don't let most people leave them, even after they are free. How did they get there? That always starts in the home. I didn't know one kid from good stable home who got wrapped up in the life. My home life wasn't Ozzie and Harriet but I had a bit of sense. I had my opportunities but I never crossed that line. Single mother homes are a leading contributor but above all you have to have parents who give a damn. That is the starting point. Sadly, a lot of these kids don't have that. As Denzel Washington put it, they get raised by the court and educated in the juvenile halls. You would be hard pressed to find a six year old who will say, I wanna be a felon, a junkie, or a prostitute when I grow up. It's not a racial problem, it's a spiritual one.
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