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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You only want to point to a culture of "institutionalized racism" and paint that as the blame, as though somehow rich white folks are secretly going around putting guns to young black men's heads and forcing them to drop out of school, forcing them to go out and rob, forcing them to fight with each other, forcing them to get young girls pregnant and then abandon them, forcing them to do drugs, et cetera.  That belief is downright bizarre.  Prima Facie evidence?  More like a conspiracy theory of the illuminati, bigfoot and UFOs.

Yet you don't want to believe that there exists ghetto culture which teaches young black men that this kind of behavior is what you do, and this lifestyle is normal.  That belief is downright obtuse.[/quote]

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