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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Two problem with Lasereth's post:
1. He doesn't cite where it came from. He cites the 'FBI' but obviously it is an interpretation of FBI data.
uh, you don't recognize some telling signs of suspicious motives in the wording of the piece, UsTwo?
I'd like to know where he copied the list from.
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Me too, as our overly race sensitive culture would never allow such a list, even if true, so my guess is such a list would come from 'racist' web site. It doesn't make the information not true, we have chosen to ignore race in this country, at least when it says something bad about blacks and crime. This is just ignoring the problem and causes more issues and seems to me as racist as those who want to use such information to feel superior.
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2. Lists like these never take into account the preponderance of drug-related crime and black-on-black crime which conform to socio-economic criteria that have nothing to do with a white guy walking down the street at night shaking in his boots every time a black dude walks by.
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What does it matter? Crime is crime.
And while I have not witnessed many unprovoked violent crimes in my life, 3 times to be precise, all three were perpetrated by young black males. I can not chide my brain for doing what a brain is suppose to do and link a pattern. Statistically I can't say my brain is correct, but our brains are not worried about such matters, just simple survival.
I spent about a year living in a low income, mostly black area in my early 20's. I never had any major issues living there, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I had a heightened sense of awareness to trouble while there. When my girlfriend would visit we would meet outside of the area and I'd 'escort' her in. I suppose it was racist to do so but this is after I witnessed said unprovoked violence, and I ended up marrying the girl, so if anything happened to her I'd have been rather upset.