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I'm happy to go with culture within the black community, the deconstruction of our mechanisms of family formation, the effects of no-fault divorce, the general Moynihan Report thesis.
The problem with the standard narrative on race is that we detect racism through disparate outcomes, but by that measure there doesn't appear to be a detectable racism gradient between deepest Red and deepest Blue regions. Nor has fifty years of herculean social interventions actually moved the needle. Whatever causes the bad outcomes, it doesn't change whether black people grow up in Mississippi or California, it works exactly the same post-Black Panther as it did when the hard-R was common vernacular in the fifties, and it is immune to everything we've tried from at least the civil rights era till today. Also, it got way worse within weeks of the BLM protests starting.
That data is completely incompatible with the narrative by which racism, structural or individual, oppresses Blacks and causes them to have worse outcomes, but we can fix the problem through diversity initiatives/media representation/affirmative action/whatever the intervention du jour is. If it's racism, it doesn't work anything like the standard model, or even the pessimistic versions of radicals like Coates. If it's social dysfunction, it's not anything like the standard social model we've been focused on for the last half-century. There is no reason to continue to pretend that the interventions that have monotonously failed to date will magically start working if we try just one more time. And at this point, given the way the BLM fracas shook out, there's no reason for Reds to continue to cooperate with the current system, where we cooperate in good faith with the solutions and then are given sole blame for the inevitable failure.
BLM happened because Blues disseminated an obvious lie about black people being killed by the police in massive numbers, resulting in nation-wide riots and a collapse in policing. The result has been that the thousands of murders they lied about are now actually happening as a pure black-on-black phenomenon, due to an apparent collapse in policing and an attendant skyrocketed murder rate. And the kicker is, no one involved will admit what actually happened, and instead they blame Reds like me. So fuck every part of that. None of this is any reason to be hostile to blacks, but it's a very good reason to be hostile to Blues.
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