You should have remained silent rather than take this gambit.
Lol what? You're agreeing that black bashing has taken over?
How about this: the majority of black people in this country are decent people trying to make the best of their circumstance. Just like everybody else. I know that's hard for you to believe but you should at least take a shot at it.
The gambit of trying to disqualify statistically documented reality as something distasteful is a pretty weak response. If reality makes you feel uncomfortable, better to just remain silent than to take the route of looking like a fool.
You opened the bidding with your claim of 0.02% of the black population being in prison, so you had to know that someone was going to show up and correct the bullshit, right? Don't tell me that you actually believed that 2/100ths of 1% of all blacks were in prison was a true statement.
Don't lie or feed bullshit to people in order to distort reality to make it more palatable to your senses and then you won't invite responses designed to correct your distortions. Then don't poo-poo the corrections as being distasteful. You are supposed to be a member of the "reality based community" are you not? Well, if so, then live in the world of reality.
He also said my stats meant there are 5 billion african americans in this country. How about you explain that to me you dumbass.
His numbers are close enough. Here's how they were derived.
There are 2.1 million people incarcerated in the US and
40% of them are black. That's 840,000 African Americans in prison in 2009. He used the figure of 1,000,000.
You claimed only 0.02% of all African Americans were in prison. Now it's simple math. Take 840,000 or 1,000,000 and multiple by 50 and you get to 1% of the African American population, then multiply by 100 and you get to 100% of the African American population.
1,000,000 x 50 = 50,000,000
50,000,000 x 100 = 5,000,000,000