Inner cities

Recently the conditions in Baltimore have been in the news and the question of what happened to the money the Feds sent to the city. There is a much broader question. According to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, since the Johnson Administration, almost $15 trillion has been spent on welfare, with poverty rates being about the same as during the Johnson Administration. During these past 50 plus years the inner cities have suffered the most. Blacks commit more than half of all murders and 90% of these are blacks killing blacks. The rate of single moms has increased from 25% to over 70%. Test scores between blacks and whites have remained unacceptable and the same is true for graduation rates between races. Crime in the inner cities is out of control and aggravated primarily by drugs. To many people just listing these statistics is considered racist. It is blaming the victims for the problems.