Okay so this other day my friend and I happened to have this debate, my friend is black and I'm Caucasian.
He told me that racism is an issue in America, and I agreed. I then said that and also crime rates as well, he agreed.
He then went on to say something kinda surprising, he said it's mainly whites who do this and their should be more campaigns directed towards ending racism from white Americans.
And then I responded by saying "really?, funny thing because I said that black crime rates are the main reason to the increasing crime rates in the US and that if we should maybe focus on ending crime in black communities.
He got shocked and angry at my statement and called me a racist, he then said that we should target all crime and not just ones from a particular ethnicity.
So I went to say "Same thing with racism, lets end black, white, Asian and all racism from any race"
He got offended by comparison and then said that only white racism is an issue and that crime rates have nothing with race......(hypocrite much?)
Anyways do you agree with his stance that somehow its okay to point at whites when it comes to racism while deeming high black crime rates as a none issue?
@ mister Smarty Pants
So it cannot be that their are negative influences or bad culture that perpetuates in black neighborhoods?
So in you opinion lets not blame criminals for being criminals lets call whites racist?
@lee
so in fair world without any racism you think Blacks would have make only 13 % of the crime rate?
So in essence blacks are not doing ANYTHING out of the ordinary to cause even the slightest bit of the increase crime?
So you are saying all the dead beat black fathers, black gangs, rap music are not in anyway
contributing to this crime rate?
He told me that racism is an issue in America, and I agreed. I then said that and also crime rates as well, he agreed.
He then went on to say something kinda surprising, he said it's mainly whites who do this and their should be more campaigns directed towards ending racism from white Americans.
And then I responded by saying "really?, funny thing because I said that black crime rates are the main reason to the increasing crime rates in the US and that if we should maybe focus on ending crime in black communities.
He got shocked and angry at my statement and called me a racist, he then said that we should target all crime and not just ones from a particular ethnicity.
So I went to say "Same thing with racism, lets end black, white, Asian and all racism from any race"
He got offended by comparison and then said that only white racism is an issue and that crime rates have nothing with race......(hypocrite much?)
Anyways do you agree with his stance that somehow its okay to point at whites when it comes to racism while deeming high black crime rates as a none issue?
@ mister Smarty Pants
So it cannot be that their are negative influences or bad culture that perpetuates in black neighborhoods?
So in you opinion lets not blame criminals for being criminals lets call whites racist?
@lee
so in fair world without any racism you think Blacks would have make only 13 % of the crime rate?
So in essence blacks are not doing ANYTHING out of the ordinary to cause even the slightest bit of the increase crime?
So you are saying all the dead beat black fathers, black gangs, rap music are not in anyway
contributing to this crime rate?