knicksrbake wrote:It's mainly a culture thing. That's not racist to say. I've lived in Brooklyn my entire life, and I can tell you first hand that their culture is down-right destructive. Violence and crime are encouraged, which are two of the main things that are discouraged by virtually every other culture. To repair the black community,
The black college graduates having a higher unemployment rate than white college graduates... you would have to look at where they're getting their degrees from, what fields their degrees are in, what their GPAs were, how many internships did they do, etc. There are too many factors; it's just a very flawed study.
As for blacks getting arrested more often and such, you could thank the Clintons for that. Black incarcerations shot up directly due to the Clintons. With regards to blacks being victims of fatal police shootings, maybe they shouldn't violently resist arrest? Ex: Michael Brown.
To say that blacks receive harsher sentences for the same crime... again, each case must be taken into a vacuum and examined as its own case. You can't say it's for the "same crime" when every crime is different. Same charge, yes. Same crime, no.
If you want to fix the problems plaguing black Americans, the thing you must fix is the culture. Blaming everything on outside forces is just a joke. Anyway, I think that's enough, I'd rather not keep getting into it with you on this subject, since our views on it are vastly different and we're not going to be accepting of each others' arguments anyway.
You glossed over most of my points, like how have a "black-sounding" name means you have to work twice as hard to get a call-back for a job interview. Black children are tried as adults much more frequently (18x) than whites. White ex-cons have an easier time finding employment that blacks with no criminal record.
If you agree that blacks get arrested more than whites (which you blame on the Clintons) then you agree there is systemic racism. (I agree the Clintons played a role btw). Even though I agree that every crime is different, when you average thousands of sentences for the same charge and filter by race you see alarming differences in sentencing, parole rates and nearly every metric which we use to measure these things. It can't possibly be equitable. It's basic statistics, something you must know about.
No one is blaming everything on outside forces. People should be held accountable for their actions. This has absolutely nothing to do with any of the facts that I posted. Although you don't want to believe it, when you discount facts to fit your personal views on the subject of race, you are a racist.
. Typical pathetic insults. Have a nice weekend fellas 
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