Aspen Beat: Young black men in America are eight times more likely than young white men to commit murder and five times more likely to commit other violent crimes. On the basis of that data, is it fair for me to conclude that a young black man standing in front of me is a mugger and murderer?
No, of course not. The vast majority of black men are not violent. Logically speaking, general information about a group is unreliable evidence about an individual. Legally speaking, it’s inadmissible as evidence in court. Morally, it’s racist.
Racism is hard to overcome because in an anthropological sense it’s quite natural. Our DNA has programed us to be wary of unfamiliar faces. Back on the savanna, unfamiliar faces were from other tribes, many of which were unfriendly. Hominins whose DNA did not include this programing tended not to propagate it.
You can see the wariness of unfamiliar faces in infants. The first few times they see a person of another race, they’re confused. In immature minds, and many mature ones, confusion produces fear. That’s instinctive.
The fact that racism is partly instinctive, however, does not make it right or good. And it doesn’t make it insurmountable. It’s also instinctive for people to kill when they feel threatened and to steal when they feel covetous. Until relatively recently in human history, that’s indeed what we did.
But in civilization, we control such primitive instincts. We may feel threatened, but we don’t kill. We may have material wants, but we don’t steal. We’ve rightly determined that killing and stealing damage society.
To deter people from committing these destructive acts, we established a system of legal punishment. We call that system “justice.” more
LOL! That headline is Babylon Bee material.
“The vast majority of black men are not violent.”
Please define vast majority. Considering 1 in 3 are in some phase of the corrections system, I disagree. I wouldn’t consider 66.67% “vast majority.”
Majority sure…. Vast? Far from it.
Why is black racism and
black supremacy
never called out as
BLACK RACISM and
BLACK SUPREMACY ?
Pardon me, while I pinch a loaf of concern about imaginary “racism”… 💩
So….the only way to cure racism in America is to drive out all the minorities?
Um….O.K….. not sure if American Jesus would approve of that sort of thing….but what alternative are we given? We can’t help being racists….apparently.
So why try to defy nature? Damn, be sorry to see some of them go, but I’m sure we, as a people can relearn ancient cultural practices that used to define us. Lawn mowing, not robbing people, working for a living….annoying junk like that.
Wow, who knew there was a price for freedom?
…racism in White people is a Democrat appointed Original Sin. You’re born with it and are damned because of it, but there’s no Jesus and you can NEVER be forgiven of it no matter HOW much you sacrifice, yet you MUST continue TRYING until you DIE.
..and when there IS a Jesus, he MUST hate White people and serve Black people exclusively, or HE must be killed.
So sayeth the Blaxk Liberation Theology of Obama…
“There can be no forgiveness of sins without repentance, and no repentance without the gift of faith to struggle with and for the freedom of the oppressed. When whites undergo the true experience of conversion wherein they die to whiteness and are reborn anew in order to struggle against white oppression and for the liberation of the oppressed, there is a place for them in the black struggle of freedom. Here reconciliation becomes God’s gift of blackness through the oppressed of the land.”
James Cone
https://sojo.net/articles/why-james-cone-was-most-important-theologian-his-time
“If God is white, kill God.”
https://www.theroot.com/if-god-is-white-kill-god-why-dr-james-h-cone-was-1825825152
“Young black men in America are eight times more likely than young white men to commit murder and five times more likely to commit other violent crimes.”
That’s interesting. I think the numbers are similar in Great Britain.
“We’re devolving back much further than the Reign of Terror and even further back than the Huns that sacked Rome. We’re heading back to the caves.”
we are in ‘1984’ & headed to a ‘Brave New World’ … you can also throw in King’s ‘Running Man’ & Mike Judge’s ‘Idiocracy’
Since less than 15 percent of this country are American-Africans, it seems kind of strange that the majority of Americans are being treated like we are white colonial settlers in Kenya, Rhodesia or South Africa. These Black Colored People and their White Colored Allies are the New American Mau Mau.
“Thatsa some Catch, thata Catch-22.”
At the social news site amren.com there is a free 20 page summary from official national statistics called The Color of Crime. It is well worth viewing and is free for downloading. If we deduct the old, those too young, and those who work, we are left with a minority in the Black male population causing half or more of all rapes, robberies, assaults, and murders. The problem is that Blacks idolize thugs, pimps, and murderers. They do not extol virtue, honor, or education. Thomas Sowell, Dr. Williams, and Dr. Ben Carson should be raised as worthy of emulation and honor by all.