The Root: Maybe America Is Racist

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TxTarpon
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The dude who wrote this crap.
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We know police disproportionately kill Black people. Although some people attempt to explain that the discrepancy is a function of the disproportionate Black crime rate, research shows that does not hold true. Again, research shows that is a lie. Once more for the people in the back (I'm talking to you, Matt Walsh) every peer-reviewed study that finds police shoot and kill Black people at disproportionate rates and "the only thing that was significant in predicting whether someone shot and killed by police was unarmed was whether or not they were Black," according to Justin Nix, a criminal justice researcher at the University of Louisville, who noted that police shootings do not correlate with crime rate, the neighborhood violence, age or mental illness.
We know that black people kill more black people than white people.
We know that black people victimize more black people than white people.
Both are true in this hemisphere and Africa.
How 'bout dem apples?
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Maybe it's racism.

In any other area of sociology, criminology or statistical analysis, this would be accepted as fact. But when it comes to racial data, the big brains in academia and scientific research will break their graphic calculators trying to explain away the outcomes of systemic inequality. They never can.
You can argue that "Systemic inequality" stems from more government rules, less freedom and more crimes.

A "Less government, more freedom" approach would curtail so many young black men getting felonies.

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Police are twice as likely to use force on Black people versus white suspects, according to a 2015 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Black defendants get charged with harsher crimes, receive higher bail and are offered fewer plea deals according to Harvard researchers...and researchers in Wisconsin...and Philadelphia...and Maryland.
We have been over this.
Because black people want to argue their case to popo.
White people know that you cannot beat the ride, but you can beat the rap.
Sandra Bland tried to fight and died in a jail cell because none of her friends nor family would bail her out.
It takes a village to ignore her? Really?
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Maybe it's poverty.

We know that crime is related to poverty, socioeconomic conditions and access to education. But Black people are not three times as poor or less educated. In fact, a Black child born to wealthy Black parents is just as likely to end up poor or in jail as a poor white child born to wealthy parents.
Maybe take page from HIspanics, Indians and Asians: they push their children to be educated and achieve.
The gangsta, hip hop culture of lazy work and easy money does not work.
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Of course, there is another possibility. Perhaps Black people are inherently dumber, lazier and more prone to violence. While this assumption is also racist, it is a more logical explanation than believing thatdespite the history of slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, voter suppression and employment discrimination this country made an about-face from its past and spontaneously regenerated itself into a bastion of equality and impartiality.

So either America is racist or America is racist.
When I think racism and ethnic cleansing I think of this.
Last time I checked white dudes were trying to keep that sheet from happening.
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The Root is racist. HTH.
Good Poster
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The US is the least racist country on the planet.
ironmanag
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Good Poster said:

The US is the least racist country on the planet.
I used to agree with this, but racism against whites is skyrocketing.
Maroon Dawn
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Notice the only thing he doesn't posit:

Maybe it's culture

He tries to dismiss it by saying it's dumb and racist to think it could be a cultural issue but refuses to examine the possibility that by rejecting "white" culture you're throwing the baby out with the bath water and rejecting many sound cultural touchstones that lead to generational success in families that have given other racial minorities the opportunity to succeed
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It's a taught cultural behavior to be resistive, argumentative, and evasive with police officers as authority figures. It appears to have developed over a few generations since the big social shifts of the civil rights movement and while the basic idea of demanding equal treatment or fair treatment is what is evoked, what is actually often happening is a demand for special treatment by the police from a population that has learned that hysterics or argumentative and combative behavior can often cow or deter authority figures or social opponents. There is an entire culture built around such responses to authority or to challenges, and it is often tried until it doesn't work....to sometimes tragic ends. Adults throwing hysterically fits like children or being combative is a risky behavior, if the other side escalates in kind. When such behavior is taught generationally and in a community such that many members exercise it, you will get a higher incidence of negative interactions with authority.
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Or maybe America is the least racist country to ever exist and race baiting incorporated enjoys power and money.
TxTarpon
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And Asians....
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Texans make the best songwriters because they are the best liars.-Rodney Crowell

We will never give up our guns Steve, we don't care if there is a mass shooting every day of the week.
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TRADUCTOR
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Decriminalize all crimes and poof: A brilliant equalizer of data.
TxTarpon
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Yep
Emulating tribal Africa culture gets you a subsistence existence.
They love to say that the ancient Egyptians were black.
Maybe so, but take their love of math and science to heart.
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Texans make the best songwriters because they are the best liars.-Rodney Crowell

We will never give up our guns Steve, we don't care if there is a mass shooting every day of the week.
-BarronVonAwesome

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TxTarpon
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Great point Mouth.
Imagine them having those tirades to ChiCom masters.
That would get them broken faces and no sympathy.
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Kozmozag
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Dam Asians messing up the curve for everybody.
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18% of the population does 40% of the violent crime...

and then wonders why they get more police attention
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Black culture is inferior. That is the root cause.
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You are correct, sir. The way they want to live(not all, but in general compared to successful people in this country) will get left in the dust.
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That ballooned quote is one of the most factually wrong quotes I've ever seen.

Black people vote Democrat at 90+% levels in every election. They don't need to have a conference call because the vast majority of them vote the same way every damn time. Even with the last election where we saw a little headway with Trump getting some traditional Democrat votes in Latino communities, Biden still got 87% of the black vote. That will probably be the best % the Republicans ever see again.

That is 1984 Ministry of Truth level propaganda on his part.
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Gosh darn it, Tarp. Are you saying I should have just gone back to Denmark when I was a youte and found me a young vibrant blonde Scandinavian woman to bear my children, instead of the Gaelic descendent unicorn that I found in America? Then we could all look the same?
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YouBet said:

That ballooned quote is one of the most factually wrong quotes I've ever seen.

Black people vote Democrat at 90+% levels in every election. They don't need to have a conference call because the vast majority of them vote the same way every damn time. Even with the last election where we saw a little headway with Trump getting some traditional Democrat votes in Latino communities, Biden still got 87% of the black vote. That will probably be the best % the Republicans ever see again.

That is 1984 Ministry of Truth level propaganda on his part.


This is easy to explain. If you didn't vote for Joe Biden you ain't black.

True story
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MouthBQ98 said:

It's a taught cultural behavior to be resistive, argumentative, and evasive with police officers as authority figures. It appears to have developed over a few generations since the big social shifts of the civil rights movement and while the basic idea of demanding equal treatment or fair treatment is what is evoked, what is actually often happening is a demand for special treatment by the police from a population that has learned that hysterics or argumentative and combative behavior can often cow or deter authority figures or social opponents. There is an entire culture built around such responses to authority or to challenges, and it is often tried until it doesn't work....to sometimes tragic ends. Adults throwing hysterically fits like children or being combative is a risky behavior, if the other side escalates in kind. When such behavior is taught generationally and in a community such that many members exercise it, you will get a higher incidence of negative interactions with authority.


Interestingly, teachers are told that this behavior is a CULTURAL NORM and are instructed to let it play out without escalating in the classroom. Basically, the behavior is accepted and nurtured throughout their time in school, only to have it end tragedy when it occurs outside of that setting.

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MouthBQ98 said:

It's a taught cultural behavior to be resistive, argumentative, and evasive with police officers as authority figures. It appears to have developed over a few generations since the big social shifts of the civil rights movement and while the basic idea of demanding equal treatment or fair treatment is what is evoked, what is actually often happening is a demand for special treatment by the police from a population that has learned that hysterics or argumentative and combative behavior can often cow or deter authority figures or social opponents. There is an entire culture built around such responses to authority or to challenges, and it is often tried until it doesn't work....to sometimes tragic ends. Adults throwing hysterically fits like children or being combative is a risky behavior, if the other side escalates in kind. When such behavior is taught generationally and in a community such that many members exercise it, you will get a higher incidence of negative interactions with authority.
Spot on.

Even my affluent black friends teach their kids to fear the police and to resist.

It's mind boggling, self-destructive behavior that just leads to a feedback loop that is bad for everyone involved.
TxTarpon
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You are jealous.....




Oh wait, white chicks can that at too....
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Texans make the best songwriters because they are the best liars.-Rodney Crowell

We will never give up our guns Steve, we don't care if there is a mass shooting every day of the week.
-BarronVonAwesome

A man with experience is not at the mercy of another man with an opinion.
TxTarpon
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I am saying you need to celebrate Al Green's birthday today with some soul food, sweet sounds and maybe trade in your Raptor for a Lincoln with a gold package.


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Texans make the best songwriters because they are the best liars.-Rodney Crowell

We will never give up our guns Steve, we don't care if there is a mass shooting every day of the week.
-BarronVonAwesome

A man with experience is not at the mercy of another man with an opinion.
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