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So what do people think of his question. Why does America have such a high rate of violent crime, relative to Western European nations? And if you did a psychological study to determine the most prevalent images that people have of intruders, would there be any racial or economic pattern to these images?
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Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed
And who's shooting who? You know darn well who's killing who in this country, and it ain't Joe the Plumber. It's da gangsta fo' life n*gga from da hood yo (emphasize was intentional)
Apparantly you missed the note where the people doing most of the shooting are blacks and Hispanics
I see. So then is it fair to say that MM is probably correct when he says that most people imagine themselves getting attacked by racial minorities, rather than "that freckled kid down the street" as he puts it?
Prove it. I'm a Rican living in a white neighborhood and no one's pulling guns on people here. 4 miles down the road and into the city where more than half of the people are minorities, there's shootings going on every week. Epic fail
And this has anything to do with anything because...?
A good half of this board needs to go back to English class or pick up a book more often.
Your point? The FACT is that you're more likely to get killed by a white person than any other group regardless of the percentage. Deal with it.
Sorry flava flava but as a white person I'm more likely to be assaulted by a minority:
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[SIZE=5]•[/SIZE] According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent, or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.
[SIZE=5]•[/SIZE] Most victims of race crime—about 90 per cent—are white, according to the survey "Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims", published in 1993.
[SIZE=5]•[/SIZE] Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.
[SIZE=5]•[/SIZE] Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.
[SIZE=5]•[/SIZE] According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most inter-racial murders involve black assailants and white victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18 times the rate that whites murder blacks.
Well the people of color aren't helping themselves by affiliating with gangs. Those gangs are always infiltrated with police. And when they catch one gang-member they will catch twenty others: all usually of the same race or ethnicity. That's how it works.
I can't tell if you're being serious right now. Illegal gun owners are not gun owners because they don't have a permit? Do you realize how many guns get sold illegally in America every year?
And your source isn't exactly objective on this issue.
Most of the US serial killers have been white and they were able to kill continuously because they rarely used gun violence.
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Originally Posted by Nineties Flava
Yup. White people commit more than 50% of the murders in America, therefore the most popular face of murderers in America are white people. Not surprising to anyone but apparently you. Percentages don't affect the numbers.
Jesus christ, can NONE of you read? Let me put it in all caps since that seems to be the way most of you learn... WHITES COMMIT MORE THAN HALF OF THE MURDERS IN AMERICA PERIOD. THEIR VICTIMS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE. This is apparently not surprising to anybody but white people.
This is a dumb argument if I've ever seen one. The real question is, WHY were cops shooting unarmed civilians that they didn't know from Adam? About the only thing they could have known without knowing them is that they're black.
I would suggest your use of this as an example of possible racism fails.
I would suggest your use of this as an example of possible racism fails.
Do you honestly think they would have shot these people if they were white?
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