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Hello Colin,
I just wanted to drop you a line for whatever it’s worth. I just found out about your book through your podcast and will be reading the book soon.
I think I might be able to give you some insight on this black violence problem from my unique perspective and because I agree with what you’ve been saying in your podcast 100%. For starters, I’m a 20-something White guy, I have an Asian wife I met in college and a new baby.
Even though I went to college I found that after the 2008 crash I can make more money being a general contractor at the moment than in the science field I went to school for. The company that I do 95% of my contracts for owns more than 300 houses in some of the worst neighborhoods of Pennsylvania that I do repair work for. The company I contract for almost exclusively rents to section 8 tenants about 90% of whom are poor blacks in the ghetto and on welfare.
When I say ghetto I’m not mincing words either, I’m one of the only contractors I know that carries a gun and wears a kevlar vest to work sometimes depending on where I’m going to be. As a side note; see if your heart rate rises a little bit when you have to go banging on a door to see whether or not the place the people just got evicted out of with the windows boarded up and the power shut off is really empty so you can set about putting it back together. Every week driving to a jobsite I see at least one new stop sign surrounded by teddy bears and candles. I see everything you talk about in your Youtube videos from top to bottom. I also find your strategy of not going into the “why” behind these systemic problems and not trying to pose “solutions” to be intriguing.
Last year alone I went into several hundred homes of poor blacks and I get to see their home lives and where all of this racial animus and hatred is instilled in children and exactly how it happens. While I have not been the victim of violence myself, I have story after story of things I’ve encountered working this job that speak to a lot of the points you’ve made in your podcast at least. While fixing holes in walls, fixing doors that have been kicked in I get to be a fly on the wall in the homes of poor blacks to see how these people are indoctrinated into what we call “black culture” these days. While I was in college I worked as a pharmacy technician in a poor black neighborhood where I also got to see the rampant black exploitation of the healthcare system and was subject to overt racism against myself just having face to face interactions with them.
My wife still works in the pharmaceutical industry in another poor black neighborhood where she is exposed to twice the amount of racism daily because she is Asian. We can’t even use the subway without some black person making a racist comment towards us when they see a White guy holding hands with an Asian woman, it is absolutely unbelievable. At the end of the day though we both drive back to the safe white suburbs where we live and where all of our white liberal friends sit there and tell us that the things we see on a day to day basis and the racism we are expose to is all just lies.
They also try to say that we in fact are the real racists for wanting to even discuss the obvious problems we see in the black community. What’s more is that we have other White people trying to tell us we don’t understand what’s really going on because we are not black! I do feel though that being in an interracial marriage myself gives me a little more leverage than most white people get when discussing these things so I can get away with a bit more before someone tries to brand me with the scarlet “R” in our community.
Either way I really appreciate what you’re saying and from someone who sees the problem first hand every day I can say you are bang on. Also if you ever wanted to know what the home life is like for these ghetto kids and the real indoctrination that goes on in the homes of poor blacks feel free to pick my brain or hear some fun anecdotes about the stuff I see day in and day out!
BTW: Are your books available in audiobook format? The only way I keep myself sane working this job is to lock the doors of the house I’m working in, put my headphones on, and chip away at whatever I’m working on while listening to something stimulating whether it be a podcast or an audiobook.
Keep up the good work and thank you for your time!
