According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, for the past several years, blacks who represent 13% of the population are the offenders in over 50% of homicides and 50% of robberies nationally. I suppose you can automatically attribute this to institutional racism, and call it a day.
But there are likely a plethora of other factors that play…
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, for the past several years, blacks who represent 13% of the population are the offenders in over 50% of homicides and 50% of robberies nationally. I suppose you can automatically attribute this to institutional racism, and call it a day.
But there are likely a plethora of other factors that play into to this such as almost 3 of 4 black children being born into single parent families which statistically sentences them to more academic failure, increased use of drugs and increased engagement with the criminal justice system. Also black children disportionantly live in large cities with enslavement to the failing inner city public schools. (But giving low income black kids vouchers for school choice is viscerally opposed by the public teacher unions, so that is off limits.)
So yes, police in urban areas have distortionate contact with black offenders and blacks are distortionately represented in the prison population. It's not poverty, because numerically there are many more poor non-black people than black people. But I guess it just easier for everyone to state with authority that this is result of discrimination and excluding any other factors from consideration and never be able to identify and address real root causes.
It's a complex web of causes to be sure, many of them linked to racism and out nation's original sin, but you seem to be hinting at an explanation that goes to something inherent in Black people, but since I don't think you really think that, what ARE you saying here?
I do not claim to have all the answers. But my main point is that it is just a knee-jerk reaction of those on the left and in some segments of the black community to automatically attribute every social ill and bad consequence for blacks to institutional racism. I think that's way too simplistic and excludes behavioral and possibly many other factors.
Slavery was in fact a very grievous sin and stain on this nation. However, slavery has existed in virtually every society since the beginning of time, and continues to exist in many countries today. But the US is perhaps the only country in the history of the world that fought a civil war to eliminate slavery at the cost of 600,000 overwhelmingly white Union casualties.
Multiple factors can be true at that same time, and they're cumulative. "Poverty", "lack of fathers", "guns", etc. don't necessarily explain crime individually, but start combining them and bad behavior gets tempting for a small but significant enough percentage. Traditional factors don't explain a wave however, especially during times of historically low poverty and unemployment rates. For that, we can thank social media, police pull back/staffing, prosecutorial discretion changes, the pandemic, and an unhealthy dose of what Thomas Sowell warned about many years ago:
"those promoting visions of cosmic injustices as the cause of all the problems of black Americans have failed to understand the consequences of this vision for young blacks who do not have either the personal experience or the maturity to weigh those words against reality. The net result has been the development of an attitude of hostility to learning or to conforming to ordinary standards of behavior in society".
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, for the past several years, blacks who represent 13% of the population are the offenders in over 50% of homicides and 50% of robberies nationally. I suppose you can automatically attribute this to institutional racism, and call it a day.
But there are likely a plethora of other factors that play into to this such as almost 3 of 4 black children being born into single parent families which statistically sentences them to more academic failure, increased use of drugs and increased engagement with the criminal justice system. Also black children disportionantly live in large cities with enslavement to the failing inner city public schools. (But giving low income black kids vouchers for school choice is viscerally opposed by the public teacher unions, so that is off limits.)
So yes, police in urban areas have distortionate contact with black offenders and blacks are distortionately represented in the prison population. It's not poverty, because numerically there are many more poor non-black people than black people. But I guess it just easier for everyone to state with authority that this is result of discrimination and excluding any other factors from consideration and never be able to identify and address real root causes.
It's a complex web of causes to be sure, many of them linked to racism and out nation's original sin, but you seem to be hinting at an explanation that goes to something inherent in Black people, but since I don't think you really think that, what ARE you saying here?
I do not claim to have all the answers. But my main point is that it is just a knee-jerk reaction of those on the left and in some segments of the black community to automatically attribute every social ill and bad consequence for blacks to institutional racism. I think that's way too simplistic and excludes behavioral and possibly many other factors.
Slavery was in fact a very grievous sin and stain on this nation. However, slavery has existed in virtually every society since the beginning of time, and continues to exist in many countries today. But the US is perhaps the only country in the history of the world that fought a civil war to eliminate slavery at the cost of 600,000 overwhelmingly white Union casualties.
Multiple factors can be true at that same time, and they're cumulative. "Poverty", "lack of fathers", "guns", etc. don't necessarily explain crime individually, but start combining them and bad behavior gets tempting for a small but significant enough percentage. Traditional factors don't explain a wave however, especially during times of historically low poverty and unemployment rates. For that, we can thank social media, police pull back/staffing, prosecutorial discretion changes, the pandemic, and an unhealthy dose of what Thomas Sowell warned about many years ago:
"those promoting visions of cosmic injustices as the cause of all the problems of black Americans have failed to understand the consequences of this vision for young blacks who do not have either the personal experience or the maturity to weigh those words against reality. The net result has been the development of an attitude of hostility to learning or to conforming to ordinary standards of behavior in society".