05-08-2011, 11:26 AM
(05-08-2011, 06:11 AM)MEAT Wrote:(05-08-2011, 05:53 AM)eppie Wrote: I think you are wrong. This is not a race issue it is a socioeconomic issue. Minorities happen to be mainly in the lowest brackets here. If you check kandrathe's statistics for rich black people you will find they don't apply anymore. The same if you separate rich and poor white people. That is how it is in the US and that is how it is in the rest of the world.
So what you are essentially saying is that the majority of black people living in the US are below the poverty level, since 1 in 15 goes to prision, correct? I don't actually know if this is true or not, just trying to see if I understand you correctly.
I am saying that the majority of the people below the poverty level are black or minorities, which is not exactly the same.
To make an example; Holland 100 years ago consisted mainly of white people. And there was a lot of crime then. Now we have a much more mixed society, and there still is crime....maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less I don't know....but now many people blame the *fill in your minority of choice* of being inherently criminal.
Being able to blame a visibly different group of people (visibly because of e.g. their skin colour) for crimes always is a very comforting thing to do for many people, that's why this is so common.