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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Your 'list' is used to whip up fear and hatred of black people because it doesn't tell the whole story. And you still haven't told me where you got it from, but I understand if you'd rather not say...
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Whipping up fear and hatred of black people wasn't my intention. If that's what those facts are causing then I regret posting them. I'm just responding to the article in the OP statement. The article is proving that many people have different subconscious feelings about black people and I'm saying that there's a reason for it, and that this reason isn't racist. I'm not a racist, I'm actually an <I>extreme</I> supporter of racial equality and black rights. I just think that lots of people in the US are scared of admitting that black crime is a real problem and they think it's racist to be suspicious of young black men in a gangster neighborhood when it's not.
Obama really set it in stone at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and that's why I'm voting for him (sorry for derailing but it does apply).
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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
Do you believe that a young black man who was brought up in a stable middle-class, mixed-race community is more apt to be a criminal than a young white man brought up in the same community? Just because he happens to be black?
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No, I don't believe that. I suppose those facts sort of reflect that as well. They're certainly bloated from gang/low income environments and it's not far-fetched to say that the facts are taken extremely out of context.
I was being thick-headed by not seeing this. I'll leave the facts in this thread so the ass end of it will make sense but I don't endorse them.
You learn something new everyday -- that's why I like TFP. I never even considered that black crime stats were probably unrealistic and uneven because of crime havens. Thanks for opening my eyes to that.
This is the stuff I think about on the way to work.
