It's irrelevant that's why no one pays attention to that race baiting crap. It's also one of the main reasons why blacks commit crimes out of proportion to their numbers. They are justified, it is excused. White people commit crimes too. If a white man commits a crime, certainly a black man is now entitled to commit ten.
Thats ridiculous, why are you typing this gibberish?
Because that is what Bass is apparently suggesting! He is justifying the lopsided numerical proportion of black crime with white people do it too! It's not that white people commit crimes, we all know that they do. It's the proportion of crime by an identifiable percenge of presence in the whole. Aside from that, it's an argument used by more than a few black criminals. Even when the primary victims of those criminals are other black people!
I don't consider this a matter of race or color but of social phenomenon.
Take any societal subset, give them an outrageous sense of entitlement, create reasons and excuses for their anti-social behavior and you will achieve the same result regardless of race or ethnicity. Each succeeding generation of African Americans is more prone to violence than the preceeding one. This isn't because of their color. It's because of the level of permission and feeling of being owed that they are getting and the ages at which they learn how much the should expect. When those expectations aren't met, they feel justified in engaging in self-help to take it. The average age of the black criminal is getting younger and younger every year. They are infected with expectation at younger and younger ages. The recent Air Jordan riots should illustrate something!
I can prove that this isn't a matter of color but of social phenomenon. The level of crime in an African immigrant community is very low. It is very high in an African American community. African immigrants are not raised with the same sense of entitlement as African Americans. They don't have a history of expecting their desires to be met, or feel cheated when they aren't. African families are still intact. The men aren't entitled to the freedom of walking out and handing the support and raising of their children over to the government. If the level of poverty in Little Ethiopia (Culver City) and Watts is the same, why are the streets in Little Ethiopia as safe as they are in Beverly Hills?
As long as identifying the core failures in black communities can be trivialized as racism, there is virtually no way to rebuild the social structure to eliminate the failures.