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Happens all the time, especially if they have an "ethnic" name.[/quote]If it happens all the time, and I have an ethnic name and I have applied for many jobs, then I suppose I have experienced racism. I guess I qualify to whine and demand entitlements over it.
This has nothing to do with being around black people and more about being in a bad neighborhood period.
The fundamental issue on the micro scale is information asymmetry in interactions with strangers. If we are strangers and interact, I know my own criminality but I do not know anything about your own criminality unless I use prior information. The stranger, too, knows his own criminality but does not know mine.
Certain kinds of discrimination in this context is socially acceptable, such as the recommendation that women be more vigilant around men. Those who advocate this approach may point to statistics on the criminality of men versus women, and they are probably right. But if they point to statistics on young black males to support their increased vigilance, they would be deemed racists.
Of course, we have the advantage of discussing these things online and the analysis is far less rigorous in the moment.
Eventhough I broke your paragraph apart, all of it culminates into a screed about how black people tend to be more prone to criminality because they're black and because of "black culture" as if some white communities, especially those that are low on the economic scale, don't have the same types of social problems. And since they DO, it'd be obvious to anyone with a bit a of reasoning can safely assume that the race of the person has less to do with crime than with economic status.
The single greatest predictor of criminality in a neighborhood is the racial mix. When you control for income, poor white neighborhoods have less crime than poor black neighborhoods. Your assertion is fundamentally false.
We can also take a cursory glance at some of the poorest and heavily Hispanic border towns that are also some of the safest in the nation. A different but good example local to me is the heavily Hispanic City of Santa Ana, which is the most dangerous city in Orange County, CA according to locals. However, that city's crime rate pales in comparison to the typical city with a large poor and black population. It's not a city with a bunch of geniuses running around either.
http://www.areavibes.com/library/10-cities-lowest-crime/
It's a small miracle that Santa Ana managed to make this list given the horrific educational system and low graduation rates. Did you know that only 49% of people living in Santa Ana have actually graduated 8th grade and only 43% have graduated high school? Let's just say that there aren't many people in Santa Ana going on to complete the doctorates degree, 0.2% in fact. Having said that, the property crime rate in Santa Ana is 34% less than the national average. It could be that the residents of Santa Ana just aren't smart enough to mastermind a successful pick-pocket.
Other metrics put Santa Ana more or less at the average crime rate for California. This is despite heavy discrimination and hate generated toward Latinos as has been claimed recently (I don't claim this). You have a hard time finding these results in any city considered a heavily black city. I think there are some neighborhoods where this could be achieved.
It has less to do with being a democrat and has more to do with being white, but you already knew that right? Of course you did. You just wanted to rant about "democrats" and "liberals."
You don't rant about conservatives? I rant about both.
Or would you like a medal for going into Compton and South LA as proof of your lack of racism?
If the
ing issue is economic disparity, going to these places and spending your money there would help a
ing lot. Or are you that disingenuous?
Maybe because Jackson deals more with civil rights issues? Would you ask Bill Cosby to perform a root canal because he's a doctor? How is this a serious question?
Bill Cosby offered his views on the subject and he wasn't taken seriously. What makes Jesse Jackson more of an expert? What makes either of them more of an expert than
ing black PhD economists who rarely ever get any play from the mainstream media? You want to talk about discrimination? Let's look at how liberals completely ignore conservative or libertarian black scholars.
This explains sooooo much about you. You must pass for white. That said, I am now more than comfortable calling you a comletely racist shitbag.
You reveal your true colors.
For someone that likes to use statistics, you sure don't know anything about disaggregating numbers.
Not sure what you are referring to specifically here. We can refine the numbers all we want until we feel better about ourselves.
I have read that half of the white-black gap in homicide rates would be erased if blacks were given the same structural characteristics of whites. I buy that. What happened to the other half?
On a side note, the same study concluded that if Hispanic whites were given the same structural characteristics as non-Hispanic whites, their crime rate would actually be lower than non-Hispanic whites.
