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All you need to do is read the countless threads on this forum to understand that they are selling prejudice to their audience, which is an unusually prejudiced and ignorant segment of the American population. The median IQ of Fox News viewership is room temperature median age is death.
This is the way I look at it. If a Black individual commits a crime, it should stick to that individual, not the rest of the Black population.
This is a question to think about. If everyone is to be responsible for their actions, then why should the entire Black population be held responsible for those particular Black persons who commit crimes? What is the point in doing so? No answering a question with a question, just a straight answer.
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad was published in 2010, and it has set out to expose the “glue that binds crime to race." In other words it looks at the logic by which many Americans, especially white Americans, are able to convince themselves that “whites commit crimes, but black males are criminals.” This is the last phrase that comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis, who after reading this book, feels that it should be a mandatory read for all Americans.
When I stumbled upon this quote, I wasn't surprised that anyone would make a statement like this because it seems to be another way for people to bash black men, without looking at the reasons these black men are commiting crimes that obviously lable them as crimminals. I haven't read this book, but from this quote alone can one resonably agree or disagree with this quote and back it up with facts?
Another rationalization for black crime rates.
Rather than rationalizations, perhaps the black community should look themselves at what factors are contributing to high crime rates (lack of emphasis on education, single parent families, "black culture", poor work ethic).
Until people are able to perform some degree of introspection, change will not occur. It is easier to blame others and assume the role of a perpetual victim. This behavior, of course, is what liberalism fosters in order to prevent different ethnic groups from ascending above dependency.
If lightning is striking you too many times, perhaps you are a lightning rod.
Rather than rationalizations, perhaps the black community should look themselves at what factors are contributing to high crime rates (lack of emphasis on education, single parent families, "black culture", poor work ethic).
Until people are able to perform some degree of introspection, change will not occur. It is easier to blame others and assume the role of a perpetual victim. This behavior, of course, is what liberalism fosters in order to prevent different ethnic groups from ascending above dependency.
If lightning is striking you too many times, perhaps you are a lightning rod.
So should the white community also assume the same for poor whites who have the same issues - such as in rural Appalachia?
This is the way I look at it. If a Black individual commits a crime, it should stick to that individual, not the rest of the Black population.
This is a question to think about. If everyone is to be responsible for their actions, then why should the entire Black population be held responsible for those particular Black persons who commit crimes? What is the point in doing so? No answering a question with a question, just a straight answer.
I agree green_mariner, but who is blaming the entire black population for one crime? .
I agree green_mariner, but who is blaming the entire black population for one crime? .
What I am saying is this. When a Black person, or some Black persons commit crimes, the Black population gets looked at based on what criminals who happen to be Black have done. When some Black thug commits a crimes, I feel like I have to worry because then I have to worry about being looked at with suspicion. That is what I mean. Every time a Black person commits a crime, it sticks to the rest of the Black population.
Rather than rationalizations, perhaps the black community should look themselves at what factors are contributing to high crime rates (lack of emphasis on education, single parent families, "black culture", poor work ethic).
Until people are able to perform some degree of introspection, change will not occur. It is easier to blame others and assume the role of a perpetual victim. This behavior, of course, is what liberalism fosters in order to prevent different ethnic groups from ascending above dependency.
If lightning is striking you too many times, perhaps you are a lightning rod.
You read where the DEA has been pushing hard drugs into Chicago? Working with the largest Cartel in Mexico??
Not justification for all the crime in that area but makes you think...
You read where the DEA has been pushing hard drugs into Chicago? Working with the largest Cartel in Mexico??
Not justification for all the crime in that area but makes you think...
Makes me think that some in the government profit from crime.
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