We both acknowledged that the data YOU presented was CORRECT. Your interpretation of that data was radically different than mine. Black men DO commit much more crime per capital than white men. So what? Why does that happen? If your argument is that black men are pre-disposed to committing crime, that is a racist argument (taking the dictionary definition of racism)
I'm going to try this one last time. Again, there are three options in terms of the data interpretation:
- Option A: The culture they are coming out of promotes this behavior as "sexy" and "cool". Drug dealing is seen as fast money and a way to not work for the "white man".
- Option B: Or, it could be that they are facing some sort of poverty situation and can't get hired into positions to make decent money. So they turn to thugging, crime and drug dealing to pay the bills.
- Option C: Or, black people are just inherently a fvcked up race of people.
I believe it's 100% Option A.
YOU believe it's a combination of Option A and Option B, but with a higher percentage leaning to Option B. So let's just say for argument sake, you believe it's 70/30 with 30% being A and 70% being B. Okay?
Now, based on you believing the data is mainly a result of said criminals having to do what they are doing due to some sort of poverty situation of not being able to get jobs.....how do you explain, once again Black America with $1.1 trillion in spending power? How can black women be the most enrolled in colleges across the country? How can we have such a strong black middle class? How can we have so many black CEOs, black millionaires, etc.? If Black America were a country, it would be between number 13 - 15 on the list of the most powerful, richest, and wealthiest nations on the planet.
- How are these other black people able to move up in the institutionalized racist America, but the black criminals are not?
- You made a comment about people starting out in life differently and with certain advantages, stats show that many blacks in college and in the middle class, DID NOT start out middle class, they came from the very poor environments where a lot of the black criminals came from. The difference is that these blacks did not choose thugging/drug dealing as a way to "make it", they worked 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs, went to school at night, and moved up that way. That's what the data and report shows. A lot of them also waited to have kids until they were settled.
- You made a comment saying the success performance numbers were proportionately less than whites and how blacks were underrepresented in all of the mentioned categories. What do you think Black America's spending power SHOULD be if there were not the theorized institutionalized racism holding them down? Instead of being $1.1 trillion, are you saying it would be $2.5 trillion? If so, why? About how many more Black CEOs and black middle class members would we have without the theorized institutionalized racism holding them down?
- A dollar stays black for 6 hours compared to other races, which means that black people are mostly doing business with other races of people. Seeing as though white people are the largest quantity of race in the country, it's SAFE to assume that the majority of black people are doing business with white people. When I say doing business, that including working for white people, working with white people, having white customers, banking with white people, getting insured by white people, using technology created by white people, using media created by white people, using marketing platforms created by white people, going to colleges that are mostly white with mostly white Professors, and so on, and so on. If we are in the theorized institutionalized racism system, where the white people are looking to hold down blacks, how is it that they are working with them in MASS numbers, contributing significantly to the $1.1 trillion in black buying power, if their goal is to HOLD THEM DOWN?
Answer these questions. Your stance of it being mostly Option B, does NOT make any sense based on these performance numbers as well as the fact that a dollar stays black for 6 hours, which means that blacks are over-whelmingly working/doing business with white people which is contributing MAINLY to the performance success of Black America. How can this shyt be happening and we be living in an theorized institutionalized racist America at the same damn time?