A black psychiatrist appears to have found a primary reason for extreme violence in black ghetto youth, and a recent news report indicates he has published a “bombshell scientific study” on his findings.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is the dastardly source of chronic violence in the ghetto, the doctor explains.  The problem is, FASD is not and has never been a problem with willful violence or even explosive tempers among black violators.  Violence is part of the preferred lifestyle in the black community.

FASD occurs when the mother ingests alcohol or drugs during her pregnancy, which has a possibility of neurologically damaging her baby.  True enough, that, but a problem with the doctor’s thesis is that FASD-stricken criminals are very few and very far between.  Since beginning my career as a probation officer in 1981, I have never evaluated or came across a case of violence by someone with FASD.  Not one case out of now well over a thousand, nor have any of my colleagues disclosed such in the past decades.

This disorder is easily detected by any competent psychologist, and one of the traits of the disorder is a distinct physical appearance in the person: small head size and abnormal facial features, such as a smooth ridge between the nose and upper lip.  In other words, when the person alleged to have FASD is brought in the office for evaluation, you can immediately notice these initial traits if he or she has the disorder.  Hopefully the good doctor has photographed his claimed victims of FASD, since visual evidence would help validate his thesis.

More traits of this disorder are published on the internet, and a proneness to violence isn’t one of them.  These people are easily frustrated at times, but prone to violence?  No.  If anything, those with FASD are passive, and often mistreated by poor or illiterate parents as well as other kids in the neighborhood.

Something will come of the doctor’s study, however: more “crazy checks” and an increase in ghetto violence.

“Crazy check” is the ghetto term for a lifetime monthly government cash handout to pay for a psychologically or psychiatrically disabled family member.  Among the poor, claims of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are a very common when applying for a monthly Social Security check, up there with Bipolar Disorder.  Does the culture from where the claimant comes value self-control, self-discipline, and emotional stability?  If not, the claimant is a strong candidate for a job-killing psychiatric diagnostic label, but he will receive a lifetime government handout.  

For parents who rarely parent, Junior simply isn’t taught the most fundamental social behaviors.  These young ones basically raise themselves while glued to a television.  They begin drug use at 10 to 12 years.  Impulse control, delaying gratification, and above all, no hitting others are rules that aren’t taught in the ghetto.  Most likely Mom never learned them herself.  

That any caring mother would actively attempt to get her child labeled with a made-up mental disorder is unconscionable, but we’re talking about the ghetto here, a place of stigma-free living while feeding from the public trough.  All one needs is a bleeding heart and/or a dishonest psychologist.

The Chicago psychiatrist and his new study, if validated, will have guaranteed a new flood of FASD filings.  All the young person has to do is get violent often.

A clue to where most of the violence in the ghetto comes from is found in simple behavioral psychology.  The fundamental rule is that any aberrant behavior that is financed, excused, or rationalized, or where personal responsibility has been displaced, will most certainly result in an increase in that behavior.  This hard, fast, and well-researched rule, not FASD, is the primary reason for chronic black violence.  Violent black predators enjoy all of the above as they live their preferred lifestyle on the street.

Hopefully this new study will have a strong peer review, and at the outset I will say it is nonsense.  There is no direct correlation between ghetto violence and FASD.  The only way to end the violence, or at least begin to control its production, is to stop paying for it, beginning with ending paying money for children who are born out of wedlock.  After fifty years of black-specific handouts, set-asides, preferences in hiring and promotions, and the public university excuse factories that displace responsibility, this will not happen, however.  This new “study” will only add to the misery, death, and destruction on which so many careers depend.