Cellophanedeity: You made a very strong post to this topic.
And the following is not directed at you...
The problem still stands...black people are being called out in the 'satirical' comment. However, the FBI website lists statistics and surprisingly blacks are not much more the cause of murders than white people. In fact, men are the main problem if you all insist on jumping on this bandwagon. The statistics I found are that of murder offenders the 63.7% are males, 7% are females and 29.3% are unknown. For the race part of the equation: 32% are white, 35.7% are black, 1.9% are other, and 30.4% are unkown. If you would like to see the table go to:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/03cius.htm and click on Table 2.5.
Now, what I was hoping for was that this wouldn't become a back and forth issue on racial issues. While race is involved in the comments, there is a bigger problem. Obviously, our male population is being misguided. However, the blame is being put on the blacks living in poverty. This is a serious issue. As a teacher in a generational black inner-city area, I see the lack of resources and opportunities for our youth. I think that is the main problem. However, by making comments and, as I said before, jests to place blame the problems are never going to be solved. Some solutions are finding the causes behind the crimes and trying to find ways to combat them. The first main way to this is by putting more money in education so that resources and ways out of poverty are possible. Without an education, jobs are hard to find and without money crime is easy to find. I think it can be argued that many problems stem from lack of education and opportunities in our society.
Now, if we could try to find some possible solutions to the problem and get off the "You're racist" conversation, this would be beneficial...If not, this thread will be closed and nothing will be solved except more racial tension among the community of TFP.