Very informative.
Thanks.
In plain English, in the 48 contiguous states, the high rate of violent crime is due to ethnicities X and Y, not to Caucasians.
In Alaska, if I understand your comments, the high rate of violent crime is due to ethnicity Z, not to the Caucasian residents.
High rates everywhere can be attributed largely to poverty - IMHO, race is way down the list.
Rates of intraracial and interracial killings by civilians are similar, but police disproportionately kill Black people. A meme on rates is false.
www.usatoday.com
Thanks for your opinion.
I respectfully disagree.
There was real poverty during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Did most poor Caucasians go around robbing, sucker punching, looting, raping, & murdering?
NO!
(P.S. If some of today's bad people are so poor, how come they usually have the money for the latest smart phones, fashionable shoes, and often expensive get-away cars! In plain English, using "poverty" as an excuse for violent crime is [self-censored]).
Have a nice weekend!
I thanked you not because I agree - but rather that I respect your opinion and polite responses as you seem to my own.
There are a wealth of scholarly articles written about inner city crime and poverty.
To suggest that blacks have a higher tendency to commit crimes because they are black is simplistic at best.
Hundreds of years of systemic racism (yeah you prolly hate that term ;-) have put most blacks behind the eight ball.
To suggest that a black kid born in a crime ridden ghetto to poverty can easily
pick him or herself up by the bootstraps is ignoring history.
Like most of my friends I was born white middle to upper middle class.
That gave us a leg up. I had a small inheritance which I used to buy a nicer home and eliminate my debt.
My Mom and Dad also got small inheritances which ultimately were passed on to us kids. My grandparents the same.
Blacks couldn't even buy a home in a nice neighborhood until 70 or so years ago. Home ownership of any kind was unheard of for the first 150 years of US history.
Can you admit that whites have always had an easier path in life?