Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott has reduced his city's homicide rate by 62%. It hasn't been this low since 1978.

How did he do it? 🧵
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Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott has employed 5 measures to bring the murder rate to its lowest point since 1978:

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Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan:
In 2021, shortly after taking office, Scott released Baltimore's first-ever Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan, a multi-year strategy (effective from July 2021 to June 2026) developed with resident input to address gun violence holistically. This plan treats violent crime as a public health crisis rather than solely a law enforcement issue, emphasizing prevention, intervention, and enforcement.

It's key components are...

[Your proposed curriculum outline] "is the praxis of Critical Race Theory. I wholeheartedly believe that the tragedies and triumphs of differing ethnicities should be known, but I strongly oppose the ideological hijacking of Ethnic Studies and the unequal and inequitable treatment of some ethnicities as proposed by your suggested curriculum outline.

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"What's being put forward is not a true celebration of heritage or shared American values. It is the quiet embedding of the praxis of Critical Theory, especially Critical Race Theory—ideas that do not unite our children, but promote some, demoralize others, and divide all. This course outline repeatedly uses the language of systems, resistance, collective identity, Marxist terms, terms drawn and defined by Critical Race Theory, and reinforces the idea that power structures frame our reality.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON "RACE":

"I have a word now...about races and race lines. I have no hesitation in telling you that I think the colored people and their friends make a great mistake in saying so much of race and color. I know no such basis for the claims of justice. I know no such a motive for efforts at self-improvement. In this race-way they put the emphasis in the wrong place. 🧵 2)

"I do now and always have attached more importance to manhood than to mere kinship or identity with any variety of the human family. Race, in the popular sense, is narrow. Humanity is broad. The one is special the other is universal; the one is transient, the other permanent.

"BLM de-policing policies seem to have taken thousands of (mainly Black) lives. During the BLM era, the age-adjusted Black homicide rate has almost doubled, rising from 18.6 murders per 100K African-Americans in 2011 to 32 murders per 100K in 2021. Murders of Black males rose to an astonishing peak of 56/100K during this period (in 2021), while Black women (9.0/100K) came to 'boast' a higher homicide rate than White men (6.4) and all American men (8.2)." 🧵 2)

"Yet for all our lambasting of BLM, police unions and leaders have not covered themselves in glory, largely supporting precinct level decisions to de-police the dangerous parts ('no-go'- or 'slow-go'-zones) of major cities, and refusing to support reforms that do cut crime but discomfort cops. Astonishingly, high homicide rates have little or no impact on whether police commissioners keep their jobs, giving cops few incentives to do better rather than just well enough.

Remember when the neo-segregationist left told you that white doctors were killing black babies?

Turns out they were either incapable of analyzing their own data or outright lying to you.

A new study demolishes the failings and falsehoods in that first study. We unpack it: 🧵 2)

The original study claimed black newborns had lower mortality rates when cared for by black physicians. This got a lot of attention and influenced legal discourse, despite its, ahem, limitations. Classic 2020: it was as if they wanted you to think black people and white people couldn't live together.

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Academia is a stronghold of totalitarian thought-control.

A librarian made the resources in our Compendium of FBT () available to his university campus.

His colleagues "did not feel safe" and attempted repeatedly to have him fired.

His story, this 🧵 bit.ly/36FTtDQ
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"In December of 2022, I published on our university library website a research guide consisting of a bibliography of black writers with heterodox views. By May of 2023, five months later, I had been labeled a racist, placed on administrative leave, and targeted for firing."

"How could it be that the university is zealous about policing pronouns but blasé about the advocacy of hateful violence?"

Roland Fryer's latest for the WSJ, "Anti-Israel Protests and the ‘Signaling’ Problem," reproduced here in full. 🧵 2)

"The anti-Israel protests on college campuses present a puzzle for observers of academic norms and mores. Today, even relatively minor linguistic infractions, like the failure to use someone’s preferred pronouns, are categorized as abuse at many elite institutions, some of which even define potentially offensive speech as 'violence.' One need not even speak to run afoul of campus speech codes; I recently participated in a training in which we were warned of the consequences of remaining silent if we heard someone 'misgender' someone else.

"I understand the ethics underpinning the protests to be based on two widely recognized principles:

1. There is an ethical duty to express solidarity with the weak in any situation that involves oppressive power.

2. If the machinery of oppressive power is to be trained on the weak, then there is a duty to stop the gears by any means necessary.

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"The first principle sometimes takes the 'weak' to mean 'whoever has the least power,' and sometimes 'whoever suffers most,' but most often a combination of both. The second principle, meanwhile, may be used to defend revolutionary violence, although this interpretation has just as often been repudiated by pacifistic radicals...

The ORIGINAL original "woke":

The Wide Awakes was a youth "marching club" formed in 1860 to support Abe Lincoln.

Slave-owners feared them: "One–half million of men uniformed and drilled, and the purpose of their org to sweep the country in which I live with fire and sword."

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Wide Awakes—the ORIGINAL original "woke":

Our cause is Abolition,
And for the Nigger we do cry;
For we do love the Nigger,
And will love him till we die.

'Tis honest Abe and Hamlin,
We want to rule our nation,
And for the Nigger we do claim
Equality of station.

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"By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom."

—Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law) 🧵 2)

"DEI statements will essentially constitute pledges of allegiance that enlist academics into the DEI movement by dint of soft-spoken but real coercion: If you want the job or the promotion, play ball — or else."

"Tonight, I learned the name of Alderman would be removed from Alderman Library. I became a student scholar at Alderman Library. ... This is not the first time a part of me, my cherished memories, have been 'disrupted' by ideologues.

—Winkfield Twyman 🧵 2)

"When you change parts of my memory, you are sending a message to my generation. You are signaling the awesome positive race stories of the 1970s and 1980s are less important than dishonoring 18th century slaveholding families and segregationists before the Civil Rights Era.

Guys like Kareem will never stop pretending that there are grave doubts about Roland Fryer's study showing lack of racial bias in police shootings.

Here are SIX additional studies, using different data sets and different methodologies, that show the exact same result. 🧵

https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1758918102702567586

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Pre-Fryer:

"what the data does suggest is that eliminating the biases of all police officers would do little to materially reduce the total number of African-American killings.
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African-Americans have a very large number of encounters with police officers. Every police encounter contains a risk. ...having more encounters with police officers, even with officers entirely free of racial bias, can create a greater risk of a fatal shooting."

—@m_sendhil (Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth)

"The demand that Gay resign stems from the utter lack of moral competency she displayed in her testimony before Congress, in which she said that calling for the genocide of Jews is only against @Harvard rules in certain contexts. There is also now evidence of serial plagiarism.🧵 2)

"Having finally got their wish of a Black president of Harvard, Harvard seems unwilling to let her go. The racial wagons have circled around Gay, with President of the @NAACP alleging that White Supremacy is afoot and @Morehouse President David Thomas claiming in a Forbes interview that Gay is a scholar at the 'top of her profession...as qualified as any President Harvard has ever had.'

🧵As part of a self-declared jihad which lasted from 1983 to 2005, Sudanese Arabs sought to subjugate and enslave the Black Sudanese of the mostly Christian South. The onslaught cost the lives of perhaps 2.5 million Black Sudanese and the freedom of an estimated 200,000 more. 1/9 2/9 In Israel, Hamas burned homes to force people out of shelters; in Sudan, the terrorists set fire to train cars and then murdered those who tried to escape. Rizeigat Arabs kidnapped children; one Arab, according to the report, stabbed a woman & snatched her 4-month-old baby.

WOKE ACTIVISTS USE PICTURE BOOKS TO INDOCTRINATE BLACK CHILDREN

🧵𝑆𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦.

The world understands how powerful black voices are. This is why the radical progressive movement targets black children. Save this list and come back to it when looking for enriching stories that won’t corrupt your children while still featuring black characters. 1/24






2/24 The criteria to be on this list is as follows:

1. No radical progressive agenda
2. Tell a good story
3. Not be about racism, woke lens or not

JUST SAY NO TO ANTIRACIST BABY!

The full breakdown drops tomorrow in the Journal of Free Black Thought. Here is your preview👇

WHAT HAPPENED TO BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH

🧵If you want to get down to the bottom of the black maternal health crisis we hear so much about you must study what is happening right now and what happened in the past. Black midwives are a major piece of this puzzle. 1/26 2/26 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑠 𝐷𝑜 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝐵𝑜𝑟𝑛 (1946) is mandatory reading for anyone interested in understanding the current situation in maternal health. This book is no longer in print and a used copy will run you at least $200 on Amazon. We'll hit the high points in this thread.

BLACK MASCOTS FOR A RED REVOLUTION

🧵Exploring the ways in which black Americans have been the targets of Marxist rhetoric. We frequently hear commentators blame universities but this has been going on in high schools for decades. 1/13 2/13 One cannot successfully assess the critical theory and Marxist ideas entrapping many of our black youth and young people generally without acknowledging Howard Zinn.

"The...utopian view of the human condition [is] the belief that there are no inherent limits to what mankind can accomplish, so trade-offs are unnecessary. World peace is achievable. Social problems such as poverty, crime and racism can be not merely managed but eliminated. 🧵 @jasonrileywsj 2)

"Mr. Sowell begins 'Social Justice Fallacies' with a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who expressed the essence of the unconstrained vision when he wrote of 'the equality which nature established among men and the inequality which they have instituted among themselves.'

"Someone needs to keep pointing out that our national debate over which books to allow in classrooms, or how to teach slavery to middle-schoolers, is far less consequential than the continuing inability of most youngsters to read or do math at grade level. 🧵 2)

"In FL, where DeSantis has taken lumps for a couple sentences in a 200-page black-history curriculum, only 39% of Miami-Dade County 4th-graders are proficient in reading. Who cares if kids have access to books by Toni Morrison if most of them can’t comprehend the contents?

"Identitarians on the Right and the Left share a common hostility to the working class and 'radical forms of universalism.' The 1619 and 1776 projects exemplify this. They reject class struggle, the class analytic, and universal social programs." 🧵

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"The class politics that inform both projects are remarkably similar. The 1776 and 1619 projects are united in their reverence for capitalist social property relations, despite their disagreement about how the state should respond to the inequalities they produce."

Charles Blow's (@CharlesMBlow) column "reveals how supposed liberals, the sort that religiously read the @nytimes, can smuggle reactionary racialist ideas under the apparently progressive language of racial justice and empowerment."

🧵 on a response piece by @buffsoldier_96...

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1692615007660376095

@CharlesMBlow @nytimes @buffsoldier_96 2/

"Blow’s proposition assumes that 'black people' form an actual political constituency that speaks in one voice, when there are all sorts of fissures and cleavages that exist within 'black politics.' To not recognise this is to have a meagre understanding of diversity."