TMZ's 'Cutest Accessory' Unleashed in Richmond, Virginia

So the good folks over at TMZ have put together a devastating 'mock' commercial, completely spoofing those white female celebrities who find the adopting of black babies are proper cleansing of their unearned white privilege: 

Yes, black babies do grow up to turn American cities into a third world country. Richmond is on its way to proving that maxim correct

Yesterday, notorious gossip site TMZ revealed a joke commercial it said it “wasn’t sure” it would be received well. Called “Black Baby”, it makes fun of white celebrities adopting black children as “the cutest accessory” that also rids them of any white guilt they may have.

What do you think? Funny or just plain wrong?

'The cutest accessory' might be a stretch. How about: 'at the moment, the most politically expedient accessory' for a Disingenuous White Liberal hoping to score favors with the same type of individuals pushing the usage certain images in Cheerio's cereal advertisements (it's called conditioning). 

But why go to Africa for that nubian accessory? Richmond, Virginia is a city with a plethora of black children (of all ages!) in need of some parental guidance that only a well-paid nanny or personal assistant can provide [Study: 60 percent of Richmond families are single parent, CBS 6 Richmond, 6-10-13]:

As Father’s Day approaches, children are reminded to appreciate their dads and the impact on their lives.

Today dads around the city were honored a week in advance of Father’s Day. Celebrate Fatherhood 2013 was held this afternoon at the Collegiate School Aquatics Center. While these dads and their children enjoyed the moon bounce and competed in contests, an alarming amount of children in the area won’t have fathers around to celebrate the holiday.

First Things First, an organization dedicated to keeping dads involved in kids’ lives, reports that 60 percent of all families in the city of Richmond are single-parent households. Within the African-American demographic, that number spikes up to 86 percent, a number that surpasses the national average.

“It’s not just Richmond and it’s not always just African-Americans,” Sean Powell, who helps run father boot camps in the community, said. “Whether they leave the house or not, it’s always important for them [fathers] to be there for that child.

Henrico Police Chief Doug Middleton said he has noticed a correlation to crime as well.

“I do know that a large of number of young folks we interact with do not have a father in their home and I think it’s on all of us to recognize a responsibility to help those children,” Chief Middleton said.

A correlation to crime and black people (fatherless or with a father)? 

No.

Couldn't be.

 Out of 210,000 people, Richmond is 50 percent black and 39 percent white. 

In 2009, 34 percent of black people living in Richmond were on EBT/Food Stamps compared to only 2 percent of whites. 

For those wondering, the former capital city of the Confederacy is in the running for being Detroit-ed. It's one of the murder capitals of America now [

Richmond, Va., reins in murders as police cultivate culture of trust, Philly.com, 4-15-2007]:

Not too long ago, Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, was better known as a murder capital. 

Pound for pound, a city of just under 200,000 souls was as deadly as the heavyweights in homicides. 

Richmond has gone a long way toward shedding that designation thanks to a confluence of factors, including an activist mayor, a new law enforcement team, a rapidly gentrifying downtown, and, perhaps most significant, citizen involvement. 

Call it the anti-"no snitchin' " campaign: a vastly increased willingness among residents to provide information about crimes and suspects, an attitude that some say is beginning to change in Philadelphia 

After being away from Richmond for 20 years, advertising executive Lauren Tucker moved back to her hometown nearly four years ago. Shortly after her return, a man was shot and killed in the alley behind her house. 

"Some of the stuff I saw my first year back was like the wild, wild West, with running gun battles," she said. 

As more middle-class residents moved downtown, renovating buildings and establishing businesses, there was a sense of wanting to protect their investments. 

"They are committed," Tucker said. "They say they will confront these issues because they want peace and stability."

 Peace and stability?

There's a simple way to attain peace and stability. 

The answer can found in the form of a question: Why is Iceland Free of Violent Crime? A: Why is New Orleans Replete with Violent Crime?

'The cutest accessory' has a tendency to grow up and be a biological weapon that no UN Weapons  Inspector will dare survey, though they have done far more damage than hypothetical WMDs hiding in Iraq or Iran will ever do.

Cities like Richmond, Birmingham, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Jackson (MS), Detroit, Rochester, Milwaukee, and Baltimore are in ruins, incapable of being rebuilt, made viable again, until the population that destabilized them is removed.