Re: Black lives matter.........
Posted by:
D-BAG DEMOCRAT.
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Date: December 01, 2014 09:14AM
Loser Central Wrote:
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> ....except to other niggers.
>
>
> Today blacks are about 13 percent of the
> population and continue to be responsible for an
> inordinate amount of crime. Between 1976 and 2005
> blacks committed more than half of all murders
> in the United States. The black arrest rate for
> most offenses — including robbery, aggravated
> assault and property crimes — is still typically
> two to three times their representation in the
> population. Blacks as a group are also
> overrepresented among persons arrested for
> so-called white-collar crimes such as
> counterfeiting, fraud and embezzlement. And
> blaming this decades-long, well-documented trend
> on racist cops, prosecutors, judges, sentencing
> guidelines and drug laws doesn’t cut it as a
> plausible explanation.
>
> “Even allowing for the existence of
> discrimination in the criminal justice system, the
> higher rates of crime among black Americans cannot
> be denied,” wrote James Q. Wilson and Richard
> Herrnstein in their classic 1985 study, “Crime
> and Human Nature.” “Every study of crime using
> official data shows blacks to be overrepresented
> among persons arrested, convicted, and imprisoned
> for street crimes.” This was true decades before
> the authors put it to paper, and it remains the
> case decades later.
>
> “The overrepresentation of blacks among arrested
> persons persists throughout the criminal justice
> system,” wrote Wilson and Herrnstein. “Though
> prosecutors and judges may well make
> discriminatory judgments, such decisions do not
> account for more than a small fraction of the
> overrepresentation of blacks in prison.” Yet
> liberal policy makers and their allies in the
> press and the academy consistently downplay the
> empirical data on black crime rates, when they
> bother to discuss them at all. Stories about the
> racial makeup of prisons are commonplace; stories
> about the excessive amount of black criminality
> are much harder to come by.
>
> “High rates of black violence in the late
> twentieth century are a matter of historical fact,
> not bigoted imagination,” wrote Mr. Stuntz.
> “The trends reached their peak not in the land
> of Jim Crow but in the more civilized North, and
> not in the age of segregation but in the decades
> that saw the rise of civil rights for African
> Americans — and of African American control of
> city governments.” The left wants to blame these
> outcomes on racial animus and “the system,”
> but blacks have long been part of running that
> system. Black crime and incarceration rates spiked
> in the 1970s and ’80s in cities such as
> Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago,
> Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington under
> black mayors and black police chiefs. Some of the
> most violent cities in the United States today are
> run by blacks.
>
> Black people are not shooting each other at these
> alarming rates in Chicago and other urban areas
> because of our gun laws or our drug laws or a
> criminal justice system that has it in for them.
> The problem is primarily cultural —
> self-destructive behaviors and attitudes all too
> common among the black underclass. The problem is
> black criminal behavior, which is one
> manifestation of a black pathology that ultimately
> stems from the breakdown of the black family.
> Liberals want to talk about what others should do
> for blacks instead of what blacks should do for
> themselves. But if we don’t acknowledge the
> cultural barriers to black progress, how can we
> address them? How can you even begin to fix
> something that almost no one wants to talk about
> honestly?
Never try to argue facts with a Democrat. It just frustrates them.