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Originally Posted by tower
"take them out of the equation. Take out there numbers."WTF does that mean? HOW will you take them out of the equation or take out their numbers? Are you saying you want to send Blacks to Africa or Latinos to Mexico or Dennis to Mars? Do you even have a clue as to WTF you are talking about?
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He's basically correct. If you statistically omit the 54% of the murders ocurring in the U.S. by a particular 12% segment of the population (blacks), the crime rates in the U.S. fall to one of the lowest in the world. That does not even omit other minority crime, which is also higher than the national average. It's a troubling reality. Aside from who is at fault or whose ancestors were at fault, we need to address the issue. I think it's clear that the primary reason is that a large percentage of blacks grow up in the inner cities and more than 1/2 of them do not have a traditional family with a decent father as a role model. Too many black kids have gansters as role models because they have no father around. Some of our nonsensical solcialist policies of the 70s, 80s, and much of the 90s (e.g., giving greater welfare benefits to poor women who divorce the fathers of their children) are partly to blame. I've read some studies over the past few years showing that blacks who grow up in traditional families have incomes within a few percentage points of average white people.
Asians with law degrees make more on the average than whites with a J.D. Whites make more than blacks. It's not because the law firms are all run by Asians. It's because Asians on average (exception = Dennis) have very solid teachings in the family about the value of being respectful and working hard. When I rarely used to go to the science, engineering, or main libraries at the the university I attended on a Friday or Saturday evening, the people there studying were primarily Asian, there were a few whites, and no blacks. Aside from intelligence and appearance (both of which are signifcant factors in predicting success), how you act and how you treat others is, IMO, hugely a factor of what values you learn in your family. Too many blacks kids need better families. Cosby's right on that one:
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Originally Posted by Bill Cosby
Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids -- $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for "Hooked on Phonics." . . .
They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. . . . You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth! ..
These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, [saying] "The cops shouldn't have shot him." What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?
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