Trolling, maniac? Come, come, are you actually thinking that any reasonable person could argue against the prevalence of such vile, nefarious crimes as DWB within this community? For shame. But if your head is more comfortable in the sand, why, who am I to argue?
Of course, I've even been accomplice to DWB.
By statistics, any random black person you meet has a 70% chance of being a criminal. Shame about the other 30%. They have to suffer because the other 70% of black US citizens have a criminal past. Or so I've heard.
You've heard wrong. This totally and hurtfully false. On his or her
deathbed, an African American man or woman has a less than 15% chance of having ever been convicted of a crime, of any severity, in their entire life -- higher for men, lower for women, but that's true in general for crime rates. Of those who were convicted of a crime, it's overwhelmingly on non-violent offenses, usually drug charges, which are pretty standard fare for gross prison sentences in general in the US. Of those who were arrested on drug charges, it's more than likely to have been small amounts for personal use,
not possession with intent to distribute (drug dealers) or anything sinister like that.
The truth is still hurtfully high, and there are several reasons for that. One, African Americans are disproportionately likely to have been born into a community with high amounts of poverty and low quality schools. This is an economic issue that is directly descended from slavery, segregation, and racism. Lingering stereotypes and lies about Black Americans -- which some people wrongly and naively pretend don't exist -- do nothing to help this. Given the choice, who would
you hire for an important, well-paying job? Would it be the guy who you've heard "has a 70% chance of being a criminal"? Seriously. Two, African Americans are at least two to three times as likely to be arrested for minor and drug crimes as White Americans. In fact, while half of the drug arrests in the country are African Americans, they're literally no more likely to actually commit the drug crimes than anyone else. This twists the issue by using the inherent biases of the police to horribly distort crime rates. And
this is why "innocent, unarmed black man is shot by police" is such a serious and dark topic -- because it's extremely
true. Every few years some innocent black guy who gets shot forty times for trying to show ID to a group of plainclothes police officer who thought he "matched the description of a serial rapist".
I grew up traveling around the country to different parts of the US, and spent part of my later years in a mixed race neighborhood in a mixed race school. I also dated a black guy. Of the drug dealers, drug users, shoplifters, sexual harassers, and any of the above that I've known, not one was black.
There are many struggles for the black community in the US, and crime and poverty are indeed among them. But what you've heard is just another of the many comfortable, damaging lies that people use to excuse and explain away their prejudices and racism.
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