How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

[Hector12]

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[Lisa558]

Neighborhood Scout will tell you how the crime rate of an American city compares with other American cities.

Oakland, CA Crime Rates and Statistics - NeighborhoodScout

Most accurate 2021 crime rates for Oakland, CA. Your chance of being a victim of violent crime in Oakland is 1 in 53 and property crime is 1 in 14. Compare Oakland crime data to other cities, states, and neighborhoods in the U.S. on NeighborhoodScout.

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Google a city and find the percentage of blacks that live in the city. Then see how is measures up using Neighborhood Scout.

Yes, Memphis, Oakland, and St. Louis have the #1, #2, and #3 highest crime rates in the country, Baltimore is #4, and Detroit is #5. They also have a high percentage of blacks.

But this is simple logic. Blacks commit a much higher percentage of crime proportionate to their numbers, so citirs with a high percentage of blacks would have a higher rate of crime overall.

This is traced back to the shamefully high out-of-wedlock rate. Studies have shown that growing up in single-parent homes correlate with poverty, lower educational attainment, and….higher crime rates.

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[Hector12]

Yes, Memphis, Oakland, and St. Louis have the #1, #2, and #3 highest crime rates in the country, Baltimore is #4, and Detroit is #5. They also have a high percentage of blacks.

But this is simple logic. Blacks commit a much higher percentage of crime proportionate to their numbers, so citirs with a high percentage of blacks would have a higher rate of crime overall.

This is traced back to the shamefully high out-of-wedlock rate. Studies have shown that growing up in single-parent homes correlate with poverty, lower educational attainment, and….higher crime rates.

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places

There is an additional factor. Civilization selects biologically against crime genes. I define a civilization as a city based culture where the government has the effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Until recently in civilizations most criminals were killed at the scene of the crime, they died in custody, or they were executed. There was no effort at rehabilitation. It has rarely been effective. The few children some criminals had rarely lived to become adults.

Negroes comparatively have been recently introduced to civilization. A criminal justice system that is effective for whites and Orientals - with our longer experiences with civilization - is less effective for Negroes. Until the civ il rights movement that was understood in the United States, and especially in the South. Consequently, when a white man and a black man committed the same crime, the black man was given quite a bit more punishment.

Because genes vary crime varies. I am not asserting that all Negroes are criminals, and that no whites and Orientals are criminals.

 

[Hector12]

When I lived in the San Francisco Bay area I often visited Oakland's Chinatown and Rockridge. They were oases of civilization surrounded by vast jungles of crime and moral depravity.

 

[Hector12]

Yes, Memphis, Oakland, and St. Louis have the #1, #2, and #3 highest crime rates in the country, Baltimore is #4, and Detroit is #5. They also have a high percentage of blacks.

But this is simple logic. Blacks commit a much higher percentage of crime proportionate to their numbers, so citirs with a high percentage of blacks would have a higher rate of crime overall.

This is traced back to the shamefully high out-of-wedlock rate. Studies have shown that growing up in single-parent homes correlate with poverty, lower educational attainment, and….higher crime rates.

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-dangerous-places

When I lived in the San Francisco Bay area I often visited Oakland's Chinatown and Rockridge. They were oases of civilization surrounded by vast jungles of crime and moral depravity. JoeB131 would have felt at home there.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

In the beginning of How to be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi writes, “Intelligence is as subjective as beauty.” I cannot define a beautiful face, but I accept the consensus. Standards of facial beauty cross racial lines. They always have. I think beauty contests are demeaning and silly. Nevertheless, women who won beauty contests during the 1920’s would win them now. Below the neck men are attracted to female characteristics that indicate proficiency in childbirth. Women are attracted to male characteristics that indicate proficiency in hand to hand combat.

This opening statement is characteristic of this book: any objective criterion of excellence is inappropriate; we are all equal, by definition. This is obviously not true. Most people lack the intelligence to become what I became, which was a computer programmer. Most computer programmers lack the intelligence to design new computer languages, new computer systems, and new computers. I know I can’t do those things.

Computer technology increases the relation between intelligence and income. Artificial intelligence accelerates the process. This is no time to reject intelligence tests as racist. The ability to do well on those tests is going to become more important, regardless of Kendi’s disapproval of them.

Kendi defines an antiracist as “One who is expressing the idea that racial groups are equals and none needs developing, and [an antiracist] is supporting policy that reduces racial inequity,” [like affirmative action.]

In his novel 1984 George Orwell wrote:

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”

For Kendi two equals five. The crime ridden, welfare dependent, illegitimacy producing underclass of a black ghetto deserves as much respect as the Chinatown of a big city. If you don’t think so, you are a racist.

After reading How to be an Antiracist, I am left with the suspicion that to be an “antiracist,” as Abram X. Kendi defines the term, one needs to accept black social pathology as a respectable black culture. One is also required to revile blacks who perform and behave well as what he calls “assimilationist blacks” who reject their race by acting white.

 

[Hector12]

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I have known and liked members of the American Communist Party. They were good people.

 

[Unkotare]

I prefer not to divulge my location. Any city with a large Negro population will have a high crime rate. I supported the civil rights movement as a child, a teenager, and a young adult. Negro criminals have beaten that support out of me.

I'm sure you've gotten a lot of things beaten out of you.