ManWhoJaped
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Honest question:
Talking about "whites" and "non-whites" - how is crime divided between the two in the US? Do "whites" have similar crime rates?
For violent crime it's something like 7 times more likely for blacks, with "hispanics" halfway in between whites and blacks.
But most of them do, regardless of their income or education level which is irrelevant (just look at India). We have what we could call "crime genes" identified, and they in fact exist in much higher proportion in blacks but are still a small minority.Seems to me that racism having been so rampant in the past, it would have created a very hard environment for non-whites to break out of. As such, their rate of crime would be much higher - which would only serve to perpetuate the racial issue. Which, in turn, would make a higher level of suspicion against non-whites, when it comes to crime, both rational and natural.
The problem is that people need to break out of the racist "them and us" mindset. Criminals are bad guys, all there is to it. By and large you would NOT do the same thing in the same circumstance any more than most people would become cannibals unless truly starving to death.
It's not black people or white people doing crimes, it's criminals. They aren't like the rest of us and they don't do it because daddy didn't love them or they grew up poor, they are malfunctioning.
It's a problem that's inherent to some people and incurable, like alcoholism. Sucks to be them but you can't have people running around killing, robbing, raping, etc.
If crime rates are similar, which would surprise me, then racism can be talked about as the issue, rather than logical deduction.
The thing is though this is all big assumption, plus it doesn't matter. It's not the same to be suspicious of someone as to attack them. There's zero evidence that zimmerman managed to struggle even a little until the shot was fired, you can hear martin talking to his girlfriend in baby talk then immediately going mental.
There's just not any case, all there is to it, and they tried like mad to get the result that would have been popular but it wouldn't fly in any civilized country.
Calling police on someone isn't a crime, and there's no reason to think he did it just because he was black. He ducked behind a house while taking a call and I can see how that would be suspicious, and regardless of race he didn't look like an innocent in any way shape or form.
Being a big guy myself albeit white I know how quick people will be to reach for a gun or call the police if they are even slightly alarmed by you, that's just life, and really common sense. If someone can crush your head like a melon you SHOULD be afraid of them.
It's better now that I am older but if I get pulled over by the cops I am very careful, I've had a gun pulled on me by cops before when all I did was speed slightly and I was being friendly. To be fair I'd probably think it was racism if I were black, too. But even so you can't go on a rampage if people do something "wrong" just because it's wrong, when no harm has been done to you. I don't know why this concept is hard for people to get these days.
There was some incident caught on tape a while ago where some idiot was talking on the phone and made some racist comment like "it'll be a while some baboon is going crazy in line". Some huge black guy's girlfriend had been yelling up a storm for some reason, the guy hears him and beats him half to death. Now the comment was definitely wrong but you can't do that. Guy got 5 years in prison because the guy he beat up nearly died, but before they found the tape it was another case that briefly made a big stink in the news.
You also can't accuse an whole group of people of racism due to one guy, either. That's as racist in thinking as it gets, but yet that kind of BS is accepted as though it's just a fact.
I think now I know why everything has a warning label now. They need crime billboards, too. If you rape someone you can get as much as 35 years in jail! And it's still rape even if you know her! Murder can bring the death penalty! Did you know it doesn't count as self defense if you assault someone for calling you a naughty word?!
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