You chose to pre-judge people. You can post statistics all day about how all these crimes are committed by black teens. But that doesn't equate to most black teens being criminals. You will never change your mind here because you're a racist. You don't care about facts. If a study came out and said "90% of thugs are black males, but only 5% of black males are thugs" you'd still automatically consider every black male as a thug simply because you're a fucking retard who's on a mission here.
Answer me this, what percentage of black teens do you think are thugs?
From The Center for American Progress (a left-leaning group):
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/
1. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men.
2. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, indicating that racial profiling continues to be a problem. A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. African Americans were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.
4. According to recent data by the Department of Education, African American students are arrested far more often than their white classmates. The data showed that 96,000 students were arrested and 242,000 referred to law enforcement by schools during the 2009-10 school year. Of those students, black and Hispanic students made up more than 70 percent of arrested or referred students. Harsh school punishments, from suspensions to arrests, have led to high numbers of youth of color coming into contact with the juvenile-justice system and at an earlier age.
And the article goes on in that way... many more such examples. It's actually a total of 10 items, all are similar.
So, obviously, being a progressive organization... their point is "look how racist the justice system is! it's targeting blacks more!" I use the same statistics to draw a very different conclusion. One which is much more in line with the facts.
The problem with asserting that the justice system is harsher on minorities, is that we have victim reports to compare incarceration rates to, arrests to, etc. Unfortunately for those who would make that argument, who is being arrested and in what percentages, matches up very nicely with who victims reported committed the crime against them. Actually, if I recall correctly, blacks are a bit UNDER represented as compared to victim reports. (This would be due to people getting away and never being arrested, etc)
So yea, I look at the same data they use to blame the system, and the man, and white privilege... and I instead point the finger at genetics and culture. Mostly genetics because I think culture is largely an outgrowth of genetics.
Why aren't Asians similarly targeted? They're minorities too... etc. My theory? Whites and Asians have a very similar history in terms of natural selection and the type of civilizations they were maintaining, back thousands of years. Converting to a heavily agricultural lifestyle selects for different behavioral patterns, conflict-resolution skills, etc.
Blacks were the original group of humans, by not leaving our original habitat (Africa) they didn't have to change as much. Pressures put on other populations once they attempted to live in environments which our species had not evolved WITHIN (colder environments, different plant and animal life, etc... with different challenges) in turn effected those populations.
It is inevitable. It is how nature works. If a population splits off long enough from another for dramatic changes in nose shape, hair style, hair colors, eye color, average height, muscle structure, center of gravity, immune system, skin color, hormone levels, and all the other differences between groups nobody can deny and which are firmly established... then you can bet your ASS that behavioral tendencies and intellect were absolutely "up for grabs" too as far as natural selection was concerned.
Nature doesn't say "wooooah! let's not mess with that stuff, it might offend them later on!" all it cares is, how well adapted are you to your environment? Moving to a wildly different environment, WILL change you.
Anyway, to refocus myself here... and get back on your question, which yes I know what's targeted at me but I don't care...
If 1 in 3 black men can expect to go to prison on their life, and 1 in 15 is there currently... and if I put the number who never get caught for their criminality as being quite a bit higher than the number who are completely innocent of criminality and still end up in prison (which I do)... and then considering that there is a lot of "thug" behavior which won't result in prison time, even if caught...
I'm going to spit ball it and just sort of settle on... I think 70% of black men in the USA will have a "thug phase" in their early life.
I'd say about 70% of current black male teens are what I would consider thugs.
That's highly, highly unscientific but you asked someone with a similar view to me to give you a number based on their own feelings and observations right? That's what I'm doing. Highly unscientific, as I said.
Really that's not nearly enough to justify calling someone who agrees with me a racist (you might have a case for calling me that due to my excursion into the genetics argument, though I would disagree with the characterization.)
But, if someone else just said "I agree with Geo, 70% of black teen males are thugs" and nothing else... I don't think that is sufficient to call them a racist. Not at all.
That means they think 30% of black male teens are not, and that's a shit ton of people.
To my mind, the only meaningful way someone is "racist" is if they think an entire race is inferior, every single one of them a subhuman piece of shit... no exceptions.
For myself, I don't believe anything anywhere NEAR that. I think all human races, due to different selection pressures and biological histories, are more suited to some environments and activities than other groups, and less suited than other groups.
I think blacks have a huge advantage at sprinting (see the Forbes article I linked earlier) over other groups, just as one example.
I think Asians have an intelligence advantage over whites, on average.
Whites are sort of the middle ground on a lot of stuff (brain weight, IQ scores, conflict-aversion) and no rational person could ever make a case that the middle ground was "supreme" haha.
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