Re: When Discrimination Makes Sense
flushd wrote:Anonymous_Net_Surfer wrote:But the explanation for the actions of the nonwhite cabdriver can far more simply and plausibly be attributed to two key facts. First, black males are six to ten times more likely to be convicted of violent crimes than white males. Second, more than 25 percent of black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five are, at any given time, in prison, on probation, or on parole. (For whites, the comparable figure is about 5 percent.) Far from being a myth, the reality is that young black males are, by far, the most violent group in U.S. society.
Is it actually a reality that young black males are the most violent group in U.S. society?
I honestly wonder.
Yeah, there are a lot of black people in jail. So many, actually, that it gives even the silliest person pause.
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I recognize that is but one example the author was using. But, I find his thinking rather weak and presumptuous.
Way oversimplified.
Where's the mention of money?
Blacks are still only 12% of the population, while they make up over 80% of the prison population. A trend started with the onset of "true" civil rights back in the 60's. By the early 70's the trend had reversed from white incarceration to Black. The onset of drugs into black sectors, the Rockefeller drug laws, profiling, the indiscriminant beatings and no matter that OJ was acquitted, he is still considered THE murderer of his ex-wife, even though eye-witnesses, describe 2 other males, unlike his description. The murderer is only known to God or investigators, bent on "framing", this black icon of black males for many years! The labeling of blacks to sterotypes, that don't exist and low expectations by ignorance of black life, in general. Just my 2 cents, as a Black female.
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