Do you realize that crime have fallen dramatically in this country since the early 1990s? It's not a coincidence that this has happened. New York, whose crime rate has fallen something like 85% since 1990, started a trend in police work that spread across the county. They decided that police could prevent crime by having a large presence in areas where there is a high crime rate. As a result police now spend a lot of man power and time in neighborhoods where there is a lot of criminal activity. Unfortunately, many of those neighborhoods are predominately black. You may complain about targeting certain minority areas because you don't like singling out racial groups, but you are losing sight of the fact that those same racial groups are the largest beneficiaries of those police practices. If you look at New York alone, over 10,000 minority lives have been saved by the fact that these police tactics have driven down the number of murders from 2,245 in 1990 to 333 in 2014.
Never said anyone was opressed...nor did i justify violence or illegal activity...said i could understand doing something illegal if the people were oppressed...doesnt make it right..but ya gotta eat.
I can comment on Asian Americans, native Americans, Indian Americans. Doesn't mean shit though. I have no idea what it is like for them to live here or anywhere for that matter from their perspective. All you're doing is projecting your perception on to a group. It doesn't matter how objective you may be, or think you are, there will always be some sort of bias that reflects your own personal experience. But please continue to enlighten us. I think a study of how the black community came to live in their current situation might give you a good understanding of why they can't escape their situation. Not some stats that say blacks kill more blacks than whites do. When you live essentially in a third world you have to get it how you live.
That is a crock of shit! I grew up in the west end of Louisville. The Portland area. Portland has always been poor and tough.
Just because you lived in a "rough" neighborhood close to some black folks doesn't mean you had the same experience. Sorry.
Didn't say anything about living close to black folks. What I said was, being poor isn't an excuse, no matter your race. That you can't seem to grasp that, says a lot.
Yeah. There is quite a bit you and a lot of folks in this thread can't seem to grasp. "Hey you n******are free now! Why are you still living in hell and killing each other? Stop makin' excuses!" Effin idiots.
Bill Clinton exchanging pleasantries with Lynch could not possibly help Hillary. Now, if Lynch does ANYTHING other than accepting the recommendation of the investigators she is compromised. She basically has already admitted she will accept their recommendation so she is in a straight jacket because of that foolish meeting.
I don't think anyone is denying that blacks have had it much tougher but using "whitey" as the reason for ALL of their problems, is nuts.
Did ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, the issues right now are the result of things that happened in the past? And that understanding the actions that led to the current situation might allow us to somehow alleviate the plight of the African American community?
Only 81%?
That's where you and I disagree. First, no one in this country lives like third world people unless they do by choice. Frankly, it's insulting to people living in poverty in third world countries to suggest that anyone in the United States remotely experiences the poverty in third world countries. Second, whatever your experiences are, there is no excuse for murdering and robbing other people. If you think there is, then I'm not sure what to say to you.
Did it ever occur to you that, even as powerful as white people are, and in spite of all the mystical powers that we possess, we cannot change the past?
