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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that nobody deserves to be hit but the suggestion that behavioral problems in young boys today are BECAUSE of racism or punishment is totally back-assward.

You want to know why there's a disproportionate number of young black boys being disciplined or ending up behind bars?  You wonder why profiling happens?  It's because a disproportionate amount of the problems in society are being caused by young black men.  That's what the data shows.
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So I would say that is prima facie EVIDENCE that there is institutional racism at play. If a group of kids of a particular race are for some reason more prone to problem behavior, I want to know what has happened in the lives of these kids that's caused that. Because if you DON'T believe that there are external factors and pressures that lead to this, the alternative is to believe that for some reason, African American boys and young men are predetermined to be violent. If it is [u]not[/u] the institutionalized racist conditions of our society which cause this, then basically you have to believe that black boys are just bad. :( [/quote]

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