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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you think of a group as more criminally driven, you start to see them on a whole as less than. And when you do meet a "good one" that you perhaps work with or go to school with, you start to separate them from their "group." As others have very well stated, Black people have only had about 50 years of desegregation and the ability to become upwardly mobile. Think about that...Only in 1968 were Blacks allowed to buy homes in many areas of this country. And only since 1965 could Blacks vote. And those are just the formal laws. That didn't necessarily change what people did in practice. Its not like Blacks flooded great neighborhoods and started setting themselves up on day 1 after these laws were passed. People still discriminated and came up with other ways to keep them out of the race that White people created and continued to run. And its still happening. Which means that as an entire race, most Blacks are nowhere near having the familial and generational resources and wealth that we tout as the "American Dream."

Imagine having only menial job prospects, poor schools because schools due to low property tax funding, limited housing and abilities to "move on up" and voila - you have hopelessness and a cycle that's very difficult to break. That American Dream isn't for you, because you're told that you will never have it. Look at any depressed culture and you'll see the same thing. But, it's also much easier to see when you have a media that really only points out the criminal behavior of Blacks. When I was growing up, the local news covered this shootings, drug busts, the crime that involved Blacks - blasting their faces all over the TV. That creates over time subliminal messaging that you associate Blacks with crime. And when you live in segregated areas (that price the majority of Blacks or other minorities out of their populations), your only connection to Blacks becomes the criminals you see splattered across the news. And, voila - you've created the fear that engenders the racism that feeds the power structure. This area is not immune to that, despite the diversity.

Last point here. Young, white men have continued to shoot up schools, almost exclusively. White men are the majority of serial killers. Why do we not have rampant fear of White males and discussions about "why they just can't seem to stop killing?" It's because we know that you cannot paint an entire race of people or demographic with the brush of the few who do bad things. We should ask ourselves why we as a country (as a world) do not ascribe the same to Blacks? All races have bad actors, but its a "privilege" to not bear the burden of a few bad actors. That's the system that needs to be dismantled.[/quote]

That is a ridiculous argument. Please compare the rate of white-committed school shootings and serial killings to the rate of black-committed violence. There isn't even a comparison. I understand and support the first part of your rationalization here, but that last part just waters down your point. It's illogical.[/quote]

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