I suppose I always thought it was the responsibility of Father Government to kinda keep our nation on a positive trajectory by paving a pathway for America via governance and legislation. What went so terribly wrong?
Three out of four male prisoners are nonwhite. (see below)
- African American men remain overrepresented in the prison population.
At the end of 2016, 29% of the male prisoners in state prisons were African American, while only 6% of the state’s male residents are African American. The incarceration rate for African American men is 4,180 per 100,000. White men are imprisoned at a rate of 420 per 100,000, and imprisonment rates for Latino men and men of other races are 1,028 and 335, respectively.
http://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-changing-prison-population/
Incarceration Rate of LGB People Three Times the General Population - Williams Institute
White nationalists, by their very nature are stupid, narrow minded and bigotted, look at the make up of the prison population and made the false assumption that non-whites and gays are less law abiding than white straight people.
POOR PEOPLE are less law abiding than people who have good paying jobs that provide a good living for themselves and their families. People who have less opportunity, less education, and less hope for their futures, are more dangerous because they have less to lose. They have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse.
You have well documented histories of police departments using poor neighbourhoods as "cash cows", with excessive traffic stops, every little infraction, prosecuted to the hilt, citizens serving time in jail for traffic fines they cannot afford. There's also well documented histories which show that non-white youths, when caught doing minor infractions, are far more likely to get jail time that white youths doing similar stupid stuff. Toss in minimum sentencing requirements, and over-policing in minority neighbourhoods, and those statistics are hardly surprising.
But all of your firmly held beliefs on race, crime, and violence are being put to the lie, by the most recent statistic on violent crime in the USA, which shows that poor mid-Western rural white America is now home to more violent crime than the inner cities. This increase in crime, drug addiction, and violence, is the direct result of the poverty, lack of opportunity, and hopelessness felt by poor white Americans left behind by the Republican economy.
When Reagan was elected President, there were 30,000 non-white prisoners in federal penitentiaries. Thanks to Republican zero tolerance policies, the War on Drugs, and minimum sentencing, there are now 300,000 non-white prisoners in federal penitentiaries. There are now more black and brown men doing forced labour in "for-profit" prisoners, than were held in slavery in the Deep South when Lincoln took office.
When you take away people's jobs, opportunities, and hope for a better future, you create poverty, which comes complete with high levels of crime, violence and addiction. The colour of the skin or the religion are the least relevant pieces of information to that outcome. In Northern Ireland, white Catholics were the oppressed minority, and white Protestants the powerful majority. Catholics were discriminated against in housing, and in hiring. Catholics were routinely paid less than Protestants, and were considered by police to be lazy troublemakers.
Everything you say about non-whites, the Northern Irish Protestants said about the Catholic minority.
Everything you say about non-whites, Japanese say about white people. They use the USA as an example of how violent and nasty white people are and compare Japanese crime rates to American crime rates.
The common denominator in all violent cultures in society, is poverty.