[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Wed Jun 19 18:32:24 UTC 2002


Jeff, I'm so far from liberal that you'd think I was born with a republican sticker on my butt.

Yes, violence perpetrated on anyone is wrong. Yes, the majority of the prison population in this country is black. There are two possibilities for this:

1> Black people commit more crime.
2> White people convict more blacks than whites.

I happen to think it's mostly 1, but partly 2 as well. These are not mutually exclusive either. 

I've read where the root cause is because the folks living in predominantly black areas of our country tend to have fewer things going for them. Mostly because most of the money in this country is in the predominantly white areas. Since folks tend to not go where they don't feel safe, and "high crime areas" are avoided, it's a self-perpetuating problem. 

That's a thumbnail sketch of what I understand about this. That does not make all black people bad, anymore than it makes all immigrants bad, anymore than it makes all illegal immigrants bad.

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:41:45 -0000
"J Henshaw" <jeff at jhenshaw.com> wrote:

> fbi.gov will show the massively skewed proportion of black on white
> violence.
> But I know there is both kinds,  and it is all wrong of course.
> But a liberal will not admit it is skewed heavily in one direction.
> This is why I use terms like "mental block".

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