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CCC Has No Final Solution

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 3:59 pm

P.J. Tobia talks to the leader of the controversial group that has made a bit of news in Nashville recently:

Baum then gives the example of his home county of St. Charles, Missouri. He says that the population of his county and the neighboring St. Louis County are about the same. The difference is that his county has hardly any blacks (the county is “ninety-seven percent white and the rest are Hispanic or Orientals”) and zero murders per year compared with a nearly all black St. Louis with a “murder every other day.”

“What’s the difference between St. Louis and St. Charles County?” Baum asks. “It’s the race.”

“Ok,” I reply. “But maybe isn’t another difference that one county is rich and the other poor? Couldn’t that be a reason for the crime?”

“I’m not a sociologist,” he says. “…We don’t have a solution. We don’t have a final solution to this problem.”

Thank God for that.

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