Maybe instead of using racial caricatures "backed up" by anecdotes to defend your claim that the arrest rate disparity is just, you could use data.
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No, you dismissed the data by attacking an organization that didn't even come up with the data and then went on an irrelevant tangent about prisoner populations.
You're so disingenuous lol. You know exactly what he's talking about, but you gotta have a dig, right?
More black people tend to be living in poverty and poor communities
Higher rates of criminality tend to be linked to poverty. With criminality comes increased police scrutiny. An environment where crime is common or normalised tends to create individuals who are more brazen about committing crimes. US gangs are made up predominantly of black and Latino members. The two demographics which, coincidentally I'm sure, also happen to suffer the highest poverty rates.In 2014, 26.2 percent of blacks and 23.6 percent of Hispanics were poor, compared to 10.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 12 percent of Asians.
Nothing I've said here is unknown. It is a phenomenon that can be seen the world 'round.
Your graphs don't account for increased scrutiny or increased criminality in poor neighborhoods, as far as I could see.
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Hey dumb dumb, if we placed you in a ghetto and subjected you to poverty, poor education, and lack of other resources you'll probably resort to crime as well. Lack of opportunity will give rise to crime. The greatest psychologists/sociologists in the world understand this concept, so I guess I shouldn't expect your sophomoric mind to grasp it.
Even assuming you can justify arresting one population far more for a crime they commit at the same rate as everyone else, you haven't presented any data to suggest that "criminality" makes up the gap. You've only gotten so far as the hypothesis.
I'm sure that's all you can use.You already said data other then absolutes is bunk so nothing I can do but use anecdotal data.
Maybe! Anything other than "maybe" to back that up?Maybe white people are better at hiding it. Or not starting a fight with cops. /shrug
What a champ, that Kaepernick. Not choosing to honor achievements and the freedoms aforded, but displaying an attitude of entitlement.
Blacks aren't 'forced' into ghettos. They move into areas and turn them to shit. Blacks aren't 'subjected' to poverty. They choose it by having children out of wedlock and not raising them. Blacks aren't 'subjected' to poor education. They choose not getting one (that's 'acting white.') Blacks aren't 'subjected' to a lack 'of other resources.' They're given the same opportunity as everybody else (actually, they're given a leg up through affirmative action.)
You better be trolling me or you have brain damage. And sociology is marxist bullshit.
Was I trying to justify it? Or, in your mind, is it that if I attempt to introduce mitigating factors you would prefer to ignore entirely into the conversation, that might explain some of the disparity, then I must think it's right to crack down on blacks more than whites?
FWIW I'm pro legalisation anyway because I think it's a waste of time and money putting anyone in jail for recreational use of a plant they can grow at home and because it would reduce the power and prevalence of the criminal element in the supply chain.
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No I didn't. It's at the top. But that chart is more about rate per 100,000 (since comparing overall numbers would be meaningless as populations of each group aren't equal.)
Because that's what it is.
23.5% hispanic
27.2% black
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/C...mo/p60-249.pdf
No I didn't.
It most definitely can "push away" people. Athletes are babied and pandered to insane amounts, and having someone like him protest over it when people of color have bled and died for his freedom to play a game which he gets paid millions is stupid.
Sure, he has that right, it's what freedom is. However, choosing not to stand to honor those that gave you that freedom is disingenuous. You want to make a difference, put your salary on the line, put your millions at stake, quit football, make a difference because sitting down is disrespectful
You want to make a differnce, there are many better ways. Stand because you want ot make that national anthem mean something. Sitting does the opposite.