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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not black but a minority.  Why is it always (mostly 95%) that blacks are having issues with the local police?   I don't see Asians, Hispanic, African (African immigrants), indian, Arabic, etc is the news getting shot,mets.   [/quote]

Because they commit more crimes.[/quote]
Correction:  They get arrested for more crimes.

There are many studies, particularly on drug use, that show whites and blacks engaged in criminal behavior at very similar rates. [/quote]

My i grew up in a very white blue collar town full of poor druggie whites and trailer parks. My father still lives there as do most of the people I grew up with.  Instead of pot, the past 12 or so years it has switched to a lot of meth.  Most of the people in that town have (legal) guns in their homes. The unemploymemt rate is higher than other more affluent areas.

The town is still almost 95% white.

I would say parts of this town, especially the trailer park areas, are comparable in terms of drug use as similar income inner city areas.

However, in my entire lifetime and that was around 1978 (involved drugs and a love triangle)  there has only been one murder in that town and very little violent crime beyond fist fights. There is no gun violence.

What is the difference? There are just as many guns and just as much drug use (mostly meth).

The families are mostly intact though and the fathers only have a couple of kids, usually by one woman, mostly within marriage, and the men that have children by more than one woman are usually in a second marriage situation and not a series of unmarried, multiple baby mammas.

Maybe that is the difference.

I think that is what people are talking about when they refer to the difference in crime.

You can blame it on whites getting off for crimes and blacks not, but a murder is a murder and a shooting is a shooting, and that type of crime is not happening in white communities, even the poor druggie ones.

That is like dismissing school shootings as not being an upper middle class white problem when we know it is, just because the inner city 16-25 year old black men have gun violence too.

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Part of the reason the black families you compare yourself to are fatherless is because those fathers are in jail for drug offenses are a result of arrests and prosecutions for those offenses being higher when it comes to blacks rather than whites.  Maybe if the police spent the same focus throwing all the meth head dads in jail, your experience would be different.  [/quote]

To add to that, historically speaking, people have also pointed to the old welfare rules that made it more advantageous to not have the married head of household and also the impact when males have to move to other areas of the country to find work and leave family behind.  As you compare this to your small town growing up, understand that my grandparents grew up in South Carolina under Jim Crow laws and could not go to school beyond 8th grade and had to move to find jobs.  I tried to explain it once that it would be like playing a game of monopoly and everyone else started out with $2000 and you started out with $0 and while other people are buying property and putting hotels on Boardwalk, you finally have passed Go enough time to buy one of the cheap properties.  Then people look at you and say by gosh, look at my entrepreneurial spirit, I worked hard to buy everything surrounding Boardwork.  Why aren't you as successful as me?  And if you point out they stared with $2000 and you started with $0 you are "playing the victims" and "they didn't make the rules" and "what that happened 30 minutes ago, are you still harping on that".[/quote]

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