And with a basic knowledge of statistics, you'll learn not to confuse correlation with causation. A higher crime rate among black males vs. whites does not logically imply that black people are inherently more prone to crime. There's a confounding factor that a larger proportion of black people live in areas of higher population density and greater poverty, two huge contributing factors to crime rate.
Misinterpreting statistics to conclude that a black man is more prone to crime because of his race is ignorant. If it's an intentional misrepresentation, it's also racist. Or perhaps you failed statistics and became a criminal profiler.
not a big fan of racism..but my brother and everyone else says the "n" word all the time.. makes for awkward moments for me but its sad i'm used to it by now by them.
You're honestly stupid. All of these rappers and NBA players grew up poor. They were raised in the ghetto, so they were immersed in that lifestyle. Rich white people on the other hand are usually rich by inheritance or were middle class suburban kids who became entrepreneurs.
Not really I'm mixed race with a blood line/heritage that according to my relatives involves both asian (north indian) and various european countries (English, Irish, Scotish, Spanish and Italian) and i have a keen interest in Chinese and Japanese cultures, not to mention a passing interest in Africa. So I would find it hard to be racist.
Personally I find racism to be a biproduct of ignorance, most people I have met who have been racist in some degree are so because they lack knowledge of the people they dislike and without sounding arrogant they are usually poorly educated.
Statistics are an idiot's excuse to reinforce their pre-existing prejudice. I work in the criminal justice system, and I know the statistics - but furthermore I know they're bullshit. The vast majority of our prison system is black males - but there are a number of socio-economic factors that play into it, and their race isn't one of them.
Some of these factors *ARE* poverty, and living in crowded urban centers, and a history of disenfranchisement, and are theoretically and psychologically "able to be overcome" (though the double standard of what minorities are asked to overcome while the majority are railing against things like Affirmative Action is incredible). But some of these factors are out of their control - police are more present in their neighborhoods, are more suspicious due to their own personal race beliefs, the majority of police are white, drugs used by poor people (crack, e.g.) have incredibly harsh punishments compared to the slaps on the wrists given for designer drugs (ecstasy, LSD) and "rich people" drugs (cocaine), etc, etc. Some of it has to do with the fact that our judiciary is still made up largely of old, white men born in the 40-60s, though that's now changing, thank god.
Also, "rich black people" commit more crimes than rich white people? Last I checked every financial scandal in this country has been headed up by a white man. Unless, of course, you're talking about the crimes of rappers and famous black people, who grew up in the ghetto and never changed the behavior even when they got money.
That. Also in my country I wouldn't call it racist but when you have a lot of "inculture" shows/music showd down on you that appeal and features only citizens of a certain race/ethnicity ( I am talking about gypsy or better new called "rroma", because we so needed to changed their name, right?). But the thing even since we have imigration problems with such people leaving our country and doing bad stuff in other EU countries, then the send them back here and they repeat that, if we do say anything we are automatic racist.
Now I don't consider all of romanian gypsy's bad, but the majority of them are and the rest that are maybe good are a very little few. Add on top of that the "inculture" promoted by them via music/shows in mass-media, because some of them got rich and spend it to show off and promote such pseudo-cultural ways, it makes the regular people despise them even more.
It's even sad that we can barly talk about it, on any radio/tv talk-show they can't even talk about it without getting fined by our Cable Regulation Association. Like the other day there was a radio talk-show about why romanians are not wanted to come in UK and people called and said that it's not real, but we do have some "gypsy" type people there commiting some illegal acts that makes us look bag. And moderator needed to change the subject fast, because he would get fined (like he got before) if he debates anything "gypsy" related, even if the facts check out and statistics the romanian gypsys that left our country do 99% illegal stuff.
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As if. I got nothing to admit here. Who am I to judge someone by his race? He's still a human being with his own train of thoughts. I clearly disagree with some (pretty much all) religious and political views, but that doesn't mean that I detest or hate the person holding them. I'll never judge a book by its cover. I've never seen any reason to.
'Everyone is a racist deep down' is just a stupid statement to make yourself feel better about being one yourself.
When I was in college I worked at the university cafeteria. One day we had some inner city schools show up for a special meal. The whole thing was paid for by the university. These schools were almost exclusively black. Anyway at the end of the day about 60 percent of our silver was missing. We usually lost a small amount of silver ware every day but nothing like this. We even had waffle maker disappear.
While I believe most stereotypes are bad, sometimes the people being stereotyped seem to go out of their way to reinforce said stereotype.
And... This thread is the worst one i have ever seen on here. Why the hell is such a hate filled thread still opened?
Aye mate
Racism is so stupid... I don't get it.