THE LIGHT BULB HAS TO WANT TO CHANGE.

Our President recently took on long-term Member of Congress Elijah Cummings for being a vocal critic of various Presidential Ambitions, whilst his Baltimore area constituents suffer.  Columnist R. J. Rail is cheering Our President on.

Decent Americans of all colors have silently watched out-of-control black criminals destroy city after city because raising any questions, doubts or objections bring down storms of career-destroying, job-ending accusations of white racism or Uncle Tomism.

This is the race conversation America has needed for so long, a conversation where black destructiveness and visceral hatred of anything not black gets called out and held to account rather than excused and let go. For decades in the inner-city thugs have murdered, raped, and destroyed with impunity as beleaguered police come under attack for doing their jobs.

We get the distinct impression that black “leaders” like Elijah Cummings deliberately keep things roiling and boiling so they can siphon off a share of the billions of federal dollars that have gone to cities across America without the promised improvement.

What we have here is failure to assimilate. The black inner city doesn’t accept anything about America and it’s time to do something about it.

I've agreed with the general outlines of this argument, for instance noting, "Bobby and Gwen and John and Maxine are much more effective at campaign speeches about 'fighting' for jobs and schools than at insisting on schools that expect a level of responsibility out of young people that might make employers enthusiastic about hiring graduates, rather than fleeing those districts for more business-friendly climes."  Because many of these long-serving representatives of chronically poor districts have a long history of being involved in The Struggle, one dasn't criticize them too loudly without being mau-maued for impermissible attitudes.  Our President might be encouraging others, such as Mr Rail, and Issues and Insight's John Merline, to raise their voices, never mind the heat they get.

[W]henever the desperate conditions of these cities get discussed, they’re treated either as if these problems simply fell out of the sky, that somehow Republicans are to blame, or that more taxpayer money will solve everything. The connection to liberal policies never gets made.

So, rather than focus on Baltimore and Cummings, Trump would do well to point out that it’s decades of Democratic rule that have destroyed some of the country’s finest cities. High taxes and intrusive regulations make them inhospitable to business. Government control and union cronyism encourage waste and corruption. Soft-on-crime attitudes lead to more crime, drug abuse, and rampant homelessness.

Prior to Our President's social media action, Right Wisconsin editorialist George Mitchell raised a related topic.

An unstated but significant implication [of much research into urban poverty and despair] is that prospects for many Milwaukee Blacks are subject largely to factors beyond their control. That is, with little chance for meaningful reduction in segregation, higher levels of violence are a given.

The alternative view — that Blacks have a primary role in shaping their lives — is fraught with potential for controversy. Any suggestion to that effect by a white person is guaranteed to spur charges of racial bias. This effectively silences voices — Black and white. It results in a narrow, constricted public discussion about how to address seemingly intractable problems.

The upshot is a disproportionate emphasis on actions that assume government has the primary role. The main losers in that dialogue are citizens who have accepted the view that their future primarily is tied to actions of elected officials in Madison and Washington.

It's more helpful for those voters to recognize that their continued poverty is the continued basis for those officials being returned to office. But, as I noted some time ago, Mr Mitchell (and arguably any writer for a conservative or libertarian opinion shop, irrespective of ancestry) is likely to be subjected to a privilege check.

[U]ntil Republicans or Libertarians can come up with arguments that will convince people rendered helpless by years of Democrat governance (a veto-proof Senate, a Democrat House, broad popular support for a new president, and still no economic recovery, let's get the message out!) the MSNBC crowd can limit its interest in Congressional elections to cracking wise about alleged dog-whistles.  Refugees from areas ruined by Democrat policies require no dog whistles.  Nor are they likely to have the same faith in the Cult that coastal pundits continue, naively, to exhibit.

It's got to start with the people in the districts represented by the tenured ward-heelers to recognize their agency.

Brooklyn Harris didn't cry much. She didn't get into things she shouldn't.

She played with her dolls and brightened up rooms. Her grandma called her "Smiley."

"She was just a happy little baby," said Lasangna Marie Ferguson-Fields, Brooklyn's grandmother.

The 3-year-old girl was shot and killed in what police believe to be a road rage incident Saturday morning. The shooting occurred near North 42nd Street and West Townsend Avenue after Brooklyn's mother drove away from a curb. A man in a black SUV shattered the back windshield with bullets, striking Brooklyn in the head.

It's not on Donald Trump, or on Wisconsin representative Gwen Moore, to keep children from being collateral damage in the streets, or sometimes, just sleeping in the wrong place at home.

For now, the grandmother is urging community members to contact police to mediate issues rather than using a gun to solve it themselves. She said they need to "think before they do stuff."

"We just have memories to go by and try to keep her smile living inside of us," Ferguson-Fields said.

Shawndell Harris said he feels sorry he couldn't protect his daughter.

"I always told my kids I would be there so nothing happened to them," he said. "It's going to take a long time to get through this one."

"I know my baby is in heaven right now," Harris said. "It's not safe down here for nobody."

Just because members of the political class, up to the president himself, have poor impulse control is not good reason for people, even in difficult circumstances, to lack control themselves.