Divemedic

Homicide Rate

The 2021 homicide rate for the United States is now estimated to be 6.9 per 100,000. That means that our homicide rate is now the same as it was in 1997. Since that year, the only one that has come close was 2001, with a homicide rate of 6.7, but a good deal of that was the terrorist incident on 9/11. In one year, we erased 25 years of progress in reducing violent crime.

Following emotionally-charged political lies and stoking hatred and division might have just been a bad idea. Unfortunately, the same people who sold us the bill of goods about systemic racism, reparations, white fragility, fascism, and police brutality – while telling us to ignore things like the family, fatherlessness, addiction, black-on-black crime, immigration, the peaceful protesting, and then calling us the problem.

Yes, according to them, we are the racist insurrectionists because we don’t want our kids being raped by a man in a miniskirt, nor do we want them taught that they are evil and a scourge upon the Earth.

We are terrorists for daring to demand a fair election where each person’s vote counts once and only once. We are evil because we don’t want to be worked like chattel, only to have the fruits of our labor stolen from us in order to provide others with luxuries while they sit at home and do nothing but breed.

We have had enough.

By Divemedic, ago

Conversation

JKB over at GunFreezone posts about lefties who want to have “an honest, tough conversation about race.” You’re kidding me, right? It seems like that’s all we ever do is talk about race. I’ve been posting the inconvenient facts for well over a decade.

OK. Let’s start here:

  • Blacks are 13% of the population, but commit 43 to 53 percent of the murders (due to year to year variation)
  • Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
  • When a black person is the perpetrator, forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic.
  • When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
  • Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
  • Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.
  • In San Francisco, Blacks are the perpetrators of 85% of ALL violent assaults, and Asians are the victims.
  • Black women are 3 times more likely to be unwed teen mothers than other races, 4 times more likely to commit murder, deal drugs, become prostitutes, or be murdered than any other race.
  • Asians are only 4% of the population, but make up 20% of the student body in Ivy League schools.

A recent shooting in an Orlando area high school is a perfect illustration. An 18 year old student’s father wants him to be a football star. He gets shot because reasons by a 16 year old student who attends the same high school. Both are black.

Now you think that I am going to talk about the shooting. Nope. One black teen shooting another is so commonplace, it’s become cliché. No, I am going to talk about the McIntyre’s father pushing him to be a football player. See, according to MaxPreps, the kid only played for one season. He is 18 years old, and still only has enough credits to be a junior. He should be graduating this year, but has failed too many classes to do so.

As an 18 year old, fifth year senior with only 4 solo tackles and 5 games played, he is a bench warmer. His father hasn’t made him value education, and has settled on the last refuge of a failed high school career- “I’m gonna be a sports star.” The truth here is that he isn’t going to be a sports anything. At 18 years old, he has already become a cliché. He didn’t attend school, tried playing football for a month or two, and is now facing a life of poverty, minimum wage, and joblessness. He is more likely to spend his life in jail than he is to earn an above average salary. Because of all of this, he will blame police, white people’s privilege, gun violence, and everything else OTHER than his own actions.

In the eight years that I was a teacher, I can’t tell you how many young men, especially black men, told me that they were going to be sports stars. Hundreds. My wife has been a teacher for 18 years. She has seen thousands make the same claim. In all of that time, we have seen exactly five of them make it past the high school level and into a division 1 sports program. Only one has made the pros.

  • One of them was a D1 girls’ volleyball player.
  • One was a D1 baseball player. He never started college because he was shot in the leg by his drunken father two weeks before high school graduation, ending his baseball career before high school was even over.
  • One of them was given a full ride D1 college football scholarship, but was arrested for selling drugs over the summer before he left for college, thus ending his college football hopes.
  • One of them actually graduated from a major university after playing football on a college scholarship. He didn’t make the NFL.
  • One student actually went to a major league team.

One student out of the thousands of students. Your odds of getting a good job are better if you go to school and learn a trade. Don’t expect that you can skip school, get nothing but failing grades, then play a sport for a few weeks and become a millionaire. That almost NEVER happens.

Blacks need to stop using and selling drugs, stop impregnating their young women before walking out on them, they need to stay in school. Stop calling the few blacks who DO become successful “Oreo”, “Uncle Tom”, or “Carlton” and encourage success in a profession other than Rapper, Athlete, or Drug Dealer.

You aren’t going to do that by demanding that the police be defunded. You can’t do it at the point of a gun, nor while a member of a street gang.

How is that for an honest, tough discussion?

By Divemedic, ago

I-95 Goes North *and* South

Because we are so depleted by COVID positive employees having to stay home, I had to work a 16 hour shift yesterday (the most we can work under hospital policy) and I got off work at 3 am. I get 8 hours off (the least we can get under hospital policy) and I go back for another 12 hours. That isn’t the point of this post.

For the last several hours of the shift, I worked with a pair of women that I have never worked with before. Both of them are from New York City. They spent the last two hours of the shift comparing New York City to Florida. This is what I heard:

  • The people here are (and I quote) “Backwards, backwoods hicks”
  • The schools in Florida are awful and don’t teach anything. They can’t understand why the schools don’t teach anything. NYC schools are SO much more advanced
  • You can’t get good Chinese food, Pizza, or baked goods here
  • One complained that the stores here didn’t carry her specific brand of orange juice that she liked.
  • There isn’t much to do here. It’s boring
  • The shopping here stinks.
  • They pay here is low, and employers expect everyone to get by on peanuts
  • They both said they spent their first two years here crying nightly because this place is so awful.

Here is my answer to all of that:

You took Interstate 95 going south to get here. Did you know that the same highway goes north as well? You can always go back. I’m sure, with it being so great and all, you would be much happier.

Here is some advice to those of my readers who would want to move from places in the north to places in the south:

  • The people who live here don’t appreciate being called backwards, backwoods, hicks, or any other names. Your new neighbors won’t like you much if you denigrate them.
  • The schools in NYC aren’t any better. Actually, Florida and New York schools are fairly comparable.
  • The food here is fine, just made how we like it, and not how you like it. Just like you don’t prefer the Chinese and pizza here, I can’t find good biscuits and gravy, Bar B Que, or fried chicken in NYC.
  • This is Florida. There are dozens of orange juice brands here. Many are locally produced. I’m sure that one of them is to your liking.
  • There is plenty to do here. Florida is a popular tourist destination.
  • Have you heard of Amazon? Besides, how can people in NYC shop? Haven’t you been locked down for two years?
  • The pay is lower than NYC, but taxes and the cost of living are much higher. Here in Florida, you don’t have to pay $3,000 a month for a one bedroom apartment. We also don’t have to pay 15% state and city income taxes.
  • If you really are miserable, go back where you came from, but stop trying to make here like there. You left there for a reason.

This is the attitude that people from New York City are famous for. It’s why most of the people in the rest of the country don’t like New Yorkers. You are arrogant, loud mouthed, and insulting. If that is your attitude, STAY IN NEW YORK.

Rant over.

By Divemedic, ago

Remember

The Democrats are claiming that the mere impeachment without conviction of President Trump is evidence enough of insurrection to trigger the 14th Amendment and prohibit him from holding office.

The first problem with this theory is that an impeachment isn’t a conviction, but merely an accusation. This would hand the lower house of Congress the power to deny anyone to run for any Federal office, merely by voting to impeach them.

Even if this theory were true, how will they enforce it? I remember that there were allegations that Obama didn’t meet the Constitutional requirements for the Presidency, but the courts ruled time and again that no one had legal standing to challenge his candidacy or presidency.

By Divemedic, ago