You are a person who likes to read, obviously, by all the quotes you use.....but never making a tenable argument on your own. You are the one running from your model Asian rhetoric being a myth. You just move to the next thoughts of others that you use to make an argument....while never displaying your own words and reasoning. I mean, why form an opinion on your own when you can just READ and quote the thoughts of others?
There is no mutual exclusivity in the data you presented. In other words, just because there is reason for higher police presence and activity in Brownsville does not mean that police actions in Brownsville cannot be racially influenced. There was higher crime in Yazoo City, Mississippi black community than white community in 1950.....does it therefore follow that race was not an issue in police conduct in the black community then? One thing has nothing to do with the other. Crime and Racism are not mutually exclusive. Police can be racist and a black community can have more crime and both realities exist as true simultaneously. You seem to suggest that a high crime rate in the black community is justification for police misconduct and racism.
This is for your viewing enjoyment.
Police Are Less Respectful Toward Black Drivers, Report Finds
1. "You are a person who likes to read, obviously, by all the quotes you use.....but never making a tenable argument on your own."
You just can't help contradicting yourself.
Yes, the quotes and documentation are a sign of widespread and deep reading
But, unless you'd like to try the absurd conjecture that the quotes, links and documentation are random and with no connection to the construction of my argument.....
...well, then, they are a sure sign of a perfectly constructed argument.
And not just tenable.....unassailable.
I'm never wrong.
I thought I was once, but I was mistaken.
2. "...while never displaying your own words and reasoning..."
Let me give you a lesson that will serve you well if you ever get to college:
Some pointers.
1.
Citing an authority with an established reputation is better, of course, than citing someone whose credentials are not so lofty. (
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/practical_guide.shtml)
Composition Patterns: Developing an Argument
2. What has been pejoratively referred to as ‘simply cut and paste,’ is, in fact,
carefully chosen to substantiate a point. Is the information covered fact, opinion, or propaganda? Facts can usually be verified; opinions, though they may be based on factual information, evolve from the interpretation of facts.(
LibGuides: Critically Analyzing Information Sources: Critical Appraisal and Analysis)
3. A valid objection to this selection of sources may be the type of audience being addressed. Is the ‘pasted selection’ aimed at a specialized or a general audience?
Do you find the level ‘over your head’ or is this source too elementary? Ibid.
4. Are you objecting to the author's credentials--institutional affiliation (where he or she works), educational background, past writings, or experience? Or simply looking for a weapon to attack the post? This, of course, would be puerile.
5. Providing summaries or outlines of a source is valid as long as a link to the original is provided, and the author’s meaning is conveyed.
6.
Nor is it necessary to insert one’s own language if the original article is simply abbreviated, with link provided.
7. What has been called ‘cut and paste’ is frequently
the message board version of footnotes and endnotes of an academic essay. “…footnotes were declared outmoded just before the era of the word-processors which make using footnotes so much easier. Still, because of its relative ease in both writing and reading, parenthetical documentation is greatly preferred by most instructors.”
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/practical_guide.shtml
websites.wnc.edu/~kille/Fred/researchpaper.rtf
Do you feel sufficiently rebuked?