Quote: Originally Posted by nasum dohdough, call me racist all you want, it's easier to put that on my shoulders than to accept that a portion of black culture celebrates violence and stupidity and causes a large portion of the problems that are lumped on black culture as a whole. Call it the rotten apple principle.

So.why.is.that? Why do they "celebrate violence" and why do they make all black people look bad.

Why is it that we need to accept that some black people are just bad and all black people should be judged under white male cultural standards?

Quote: There are probably more stupid white people than black people. It's just that stupid white people tend to live in the middle of nowhere where there's one sherrif that works a five hour shift and maybe pulls over one drunk guy on an ATV every month and has to arrest old man smithson once a year for slapping up his wife. Maybe he has to do something about a methlab. Essentially what I'm getting at here is that "white crime" is easier to get away with because there's less of it going on in the concentrated areas of population.

Well if we all know where "white" crime is happening, why do we focus on "black" crime. And if there is more crime perpetrated by white people, why do black people disproportionately populate the prison system.

Quote: I'm trying to figure out where I said that all blacks are criminals. When you said that 1/4 are in jail, I just mentioned that of that 25% of the total population, most are probably in jail for a reason. Remove skin color from the equation and I'd say the same thing. If, according to that chart on the last page, roughly 2.5 million people are in jail and they had a trial, then most likely 90% of them are there for a reason. The other 10% either got railroaded, false evidence, shitty attorney, probably got away with something else and deserve to be there anyway.

I actually said 1 in 4 have been incarcerated. Even IF 100% of the people currently incarcerated commited the crimes they were inprisoned for, why do black people have longer sentences and harsher punishments compared to white people that commit the same crimes.

Quote: Am I arguing with myself in saying that it's nigh impossible to get ahead? Nope, that's the way it's been for about 50 years now and there's no use arguing with it. Just accept the fact that you're more or less born with your lot in life.

So we(people of color) should just accept that the system is racist and deal with it? HA!