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Old 05-09-2016, 04:12 AM
 
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by momonkey View Post
So more crack in Detroit is the answer?
Go try some and get back to us.


You'd think on a forum like this people would be able to see more than black and white.



We currently have the highest addiction rates AND prison rates



How's that working out??
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Old 05-09-2016, 04:58 AM
 
Location: Tri STATE!!!
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It was law 60 years ago....
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Old 05-09-2016, 07:12 AM
 
Location: North America
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Much more and much more violent, crimes per capita as documented by the FBI in its Uniform Crime Statistics.
Of course, they make up far less of the population.
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Old 05-10-2016, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Texas
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It seems that the media in general and white American society in particular prefer to focus on crime perpetrated by African Americans because it serves as a way to absolve them from the violence, prejudice and institutionalized discrimination engendered for generations against blacks.
It offers a buffer against responsibility, a way to shift blame and deflect cause and effect.
That's your twisted perception. It's not reality.

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But the truth, and numbers, tell a different story. At the heart of an increasingly violent society is not a subculture among Blacks, but the violence and criminality of many Americans, and whites in particular.
It's not the truth, just another way for people like you to falsely play the race card.
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Old 05-10-2016, 07:19 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Go try some and get back to us.


You'd think on a forum like this people would be able to see more than black and white.



We currently have the highest addiction rates AND prison rates



How's that working out??
If you want to see the problem, look in the mirror. Quit voting for the status quo.
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