Why Aren't There More Black Libertarians?

I want to start off by thanking you for taking the time to share your personal experiences. It's impossible to truly understand someone's train of thought unless you understand how they got there. This isn't only beneficial for others trying to understand you, but it's also mentally beneficial to take the time reflect on your personal narrative and look inward. I want to address a few of your points and maybe cast them in a different light.

I got kicked out of high school and went to an all black school which made me come to my beliefs today. I got picked on for being white. I fought black kids all the time. The school had an emphasis on keeping kids out of trouble and not really teaching us.

Now obviously this would have a significant and long lasting impact on how you perceive black people and black culture. But is that truly representative of all black people, or does your opinion fall victim to the availability heuristic and selection bias? It's understandable that your negative interactions with black people in your formative years would have led to an unfavorable view on them, but if you stop to reflect and think rationally, does that really warrant dismissing black people as a whole? Referring back to the availability heuristic, those traumatic experiences are obviously going to have weight and importance to you, thus making it so easy to recall, but at the same time that is going to result in taking precedence over the positive or neutral interactions that you experienced.

I know it's easy to overlook, but it's important to recognize just how profound experiences such as these are in shaping our opinions and beliefs throughout our entire lives. Think for a moment, if you had not been sent to an alternative school and had those negative experiences with black people. Do you still think you would have eventually developed these beliefs? You say you hold these views because of crime stats, but I don't think that's all there is too it. I believe you still hold anger from all those years ago, whether you realize it or not, and the stats simply help to reinforce those views. But here's the thing, even if the stats do point to blacks being involved in more violent crime, higher incarceration rates, more high school dropouts, that doesn't explain why that is the case.

Tell me something eagleshigh, if you were poor, living in the ghetto, surrounded by poverty, with very little upwards mobility and opportunity, do you think it would be reasonable to sell drugs in order to better provide for yourself, and your family? This being /r/anarcho_capitalism I'm going to assume you have no problem with drugs. So you start selling drugs and things are going good, but of course there is competition. But the thing with black markets, is that they inevitably end up being controlled by force and violence. So now what is the next logical thing you do if you know people want to hurt you or kill you because you are encroaching on their turf? Well you buy a gun of course. But well, see, that other guy has a gun too, and well there's actually a bunch of people with guns and you are just one guy. So what's the next logical step? You and a bunch of other guys come together and form a gang. But here's the thing, those other guys are doing the same exact thing. So now this how we end up with a cycle of violence and black on black crime. This cycle of crime and violence overtime becomes a part of the culture, and it's very difficult to escape it. The drug war is definitely a HUGE factor in why blacks and other minorities are so disproportionately represented in prisons and crime statistics, and the drug war is the perfect fuel for the School-to-prison pipeline and the Prison-industrial complex. Areas with high rates of poverty simply have higher rates of crime, and that's not just pertaining to America or the blacks, it's the world over. Well, one exception. Rural areas may be impoverished but they typically don't have much crime, but that's because they are rural.

Look, you come across as a genuine and honest guy and I don't think it's right for others to simply be dismissive of you. It doesn't feel good does it, when you are simply dismissed or ignored, or treated like some kind of devil for your beliefs? But is that not the same thing you are doing when you generalize about all black people? You say you don't hate black people, but the truth is that you wouldn't be spending so much time and effort denouncing black people and black culture on /r/coontown or whatever if it wasn't a hypersensitive issue to you.

Are black people really bad, or is their current situation simply the result of centuries of oppression in one form or another? First there was slavery in the south, and in the north they were hypocrites who denounced slavery but then ignored the blacks. Then there was institutional racism in the south. Then in the 60s when blacks were making significant progress, the war on drugs started and kicked them back into the dirt. I see victims, who due to their situation, have been forced to become victimizers in one way or another, and even so, that percentage of inner city blacks are not in any way representative of blacks as a whole.

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