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Posted by Baldur on 2008-July-25 00:06:54 EDT, Friday
In reply to Re: I don't need to explain myself to you, posted by MeMyselfandI on 2008-July-24 03:54:33 EDT, Thursday

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2.- I don't understand the "black" rant. I don't know where you live but, in my country, there're not so many black people, it's kinda new here, like from less than ten years ago. The great majority of crimes are commited by white people here.

In the United States blacks make up maybe 15% of the general population but about 50% of the prison population. There are many factors to this, including historical ones and racism (e.g., if you know you're liable to be convicted of a crime whether or not you commit the crime, there is little reason to resist temptation), but there is pretty good reason to believe that this 15% of the population does in fact commit more than 15% of crimes (though probably not 50% as the prison population would suggest). That said, the vast majority of blacks are not criminals.* Most are decent, law-abiding people.

Joey's point is that American society has (finally) come to grips with this, and it would be a major faux pas in polite society to presume that a black man is a criminal, even though black men are significantly more likely to commit a crime than members of other groups. On the other hand, most sexual abuse of children (over 90%) is committed by non-pedophiles, and yet American society presumes that every pedophile is a criminal - and this is rather perplexing.

* That is, would not fit what most people think of as a "criminal". In the United States today, the laws are so restrictive that virtually every citizen could be convicted of multiple felonies if the laws were strictly enforced. Some laws tend to be selectively enforced, which is one other factor in the disproportionately large black prison population.




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