What more do blacks want us liberals to go along with? We went along with affirmative action and quotas to make sure companies were hiring minorities. Black people didn't win the right to vote without us. Then Republicans blame us liberals for the mess and we know it was them who brought poverty to black communities which then led to crime and drugs. We get all that! Now what? While we wait for rich white Republicans to move their companies to your local hood. What can you do to better your situation? White Republicans are right. Fatherlessness is your problem. Statistically it's linked to crime and poverty. Fact. You need to stop that. Republicans are going to make cuts to programs that help these people. Let's see if there's no difference
How exactly did republicans bring poverty to black communities? Mind you. I'm not a republican but you say it like they shipped poverty in by special delivery or something.
I'm talking about conservatives. Remember they pushed NAFTA? That's one small example of how "republicans" sent their jobs away. It certainly wasn't us liberals because we've been preaching for years that what the hood needs is jobs. And we insisted that companies hire blacks. Affirmative Action.
And I remember all the whites who lived in my Detroit neighborhood in the 1970's. They left when the blacks moved in. Ever hear of white flight?
And when white companies won't hire black people and that is obvious, but Republicans insist there is not a problem, it's not what policies they passed that cause problems, it's their inaction.
Anyways, I've been arguing that blacks need to fix this themselves. And I think they are doing things that keep themselves in poverty and prison. But one black guy I'm arguing seems to disagree with me that the black community even has a problem. He says us whites have more of a problem than they do. If that's true, what's the problem?
Black people only represent 13.3 percent of the U.S. population while white people make up about 77 percent. But there are more black men in state prisons across the nation than there are white men.
The latest Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics showed the white population was 58.7 percent in August, compared to the 37.8 percent of blacks being housed at federal institutions. At the state level, however, the department said that black male prisoners represent 38 percent of the population while whites males account for 35 percent and 21 percent are Hispanic males. Overall, blacks are 5.1 more times likely to be incarcerated than whites, and blacks represent more than half of the prison population in 11 states.
Don't forget blacks only make up 13% of the population. Now I may entertain the idea that it is our racism that is putting so many more blacks in prison than whites. A white judge may go easier on a white defendant. That might be true. But the fact is there are more blacks in prison. Or there are are way too over represented based on what percent of the population they make up. Am I wrong IM2?