[QUOTE=.Isak.;48579332][url]http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-russia/[/url]
Obviously not the best source, but it has citations and I'm on mobile so it's difficult for me to actually dig for a good source.[/QUOTE]
Well it's solid enough, I guess that's my opinion shattered.
Still doesn't change that Hiliary is most likely in my opinion to get the Democratic nomination, she's just too popular with people. I have higher respect for him now, as well as a gurantee of my vote for his nomination and election to POTUS, but I won't be shocked if Hiliary gets the nomination instead.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579359]Yeah, they will make problems WORSE. Systemic racism? Please, racism isn't a issue in this country. Affirmative Action allows minorities to be accepted in a college with a worse GPA then a white person with a higher GPA, just for being a minority. We have black congress members, a black president, a black sheriff in Texas spoke out against the current activism that's happening. Cops kill MORE whites than any other race. There isn't heavy racism against anyone, its a cultural issues in blacks and Hispanics alike.
Women and men are paid equally already, look it up. Anyone who believes in the wage gap myth is a dummy. Why are we going to expand Social Security? To much people rely on it, yet we are going to expand it? There is a shrinking middle class and us expanding Social Security is going to shrink even more.
Free tuition? That's useless. We aren't some small European country we have 300 million people, paying for tuition for every citizen who wishes to go to college is insane, its to expensive. It's a waste of money, and it will ruin colleges by making them public. We need a re-haul in the education system, making tuition free won't fix shit. People are in debt because they are going into useless majors, we have WAY to many majors. Colleges need to cut some.
I agree with increasing the minimum wage, but not to 15 that's insane. It will have a drastic effect on the economy, prices are going to be increased, businesses are going to lose money, and no one is going to want to hire unskilled workers for 15 dollars a hour. We don't have a wage gap between women and men. Men pick longer hours, and jobs that pay more while women don't. It's a myth.[/QUOTE]
I'm having a stroke.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;48579321]Says the guy that actually thinks Trump is a good candidate.
Ever since you joined you've been praising Trump, I seriously just smell a troll account.
At least Pvt.Martin is arguing his point instead of just spewing dumb shit like this.[/QUOTE]
Me liking Trump makes me a troll? Damn, you guys can't handle dissenting opinions very well. Personally, I'd like Rand to win the nomination but he has no chance in hell to win the nomination. I also like Ted Cruz a lot and he is doing well in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579359]Yeah, they will make problems WORSE. Systemic racism? Please, racism isn't a issue in this country. Affirmative Action allows minorities to be accepted in a college with a worse GPA then a white person with a higher GPA, just for being a minority. We have black congress members, a black president, a black sheriff in Texas spoke out against the current activism that's happening. Cops kill MORE whites than any other race. There isn't heavy racism against anyone, its a cultural issues in blacks and Hispanics alike.
Women and men are paid equally already, look it up. Anyone who believes in the wage gap myth is a dummy. Why are we going to expand Social Security? To much people rely on it, yet we are going to expand it? There is a shrinking middle class and us expanding Social Security is going to shrink even more.
Free tuition? That's useless. We aren't some small European country we have 300 million people, paying for tuition for every citizen who wishes to go to college is insane, its to expensive. It's a waste of money, and it will ruin colleges by making them public. We need a re-haul in the education system, making tuition free won't fix shit. People are in debt because they are going into useless majors, we have WAY to many majors. Colleges need to cut some.
I agree with increasing the minimum wage, but not to 15 that's insane. It will have a drastic effect on the economy, prices are going to be increased, businesses are going to lose money, and no one is going to want to hire unskilled workers for 15 dollars a hour. We don't have a wage gap between women and men. Men pick longer hours, and jobs that pay more while women don't. It's a myth.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck.
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Racism not an issue in America, are you serious?
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;48579379]What the fuck.
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Racism not an issue in America, are you serious?[/QUOTE]
Not as big a deal it's made to be in the news nope. I'm saying this as a minority too before anyone goes "hur you're white!"
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;48579379]What the fuck.
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Racism not an issue in America, are you serious?[/QUOTE]
we have a black president racism is over, trump speaking in stereotypes when referring to asians and hispanic people is just a fun joke and isn't derogatory at all, trust me i'm a black!
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48579435]we have a black president racism is over, trump speaking in stereotypes when referring to asians and hispanic people is just a fun joke and isn't derogatory at all, trust me i'm a black![/QUOTE]
Wow, liberals know how to argue! Racism won't ever be over, it's a fact of life. Everyone has their prejudices, you won't be able to abolish it completely. But to say that there is systemic racism, and that it's a big deal is simply wrong. Also, I'm not a black, I'm a Hispanic.
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The issue, isn't racism its the culture. There is a cultural issues in minority communities. You know I was bullied in Middle school for acting "white"? Cause I wasn't thug trash like many blacks and Hispanics were around where I live? You know blacks call other blacks oreos if they act "white" did you know that?
If you can't refute my points and the only thing you can say is "haha this guy is an idiot" then all I really have to say is "wow, what smart peopl-pffhaha"
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579359]Yeah, they will make problems WORSE. Systemic racism? Please, racism isn't a issue in this country. Affirmative Action allows minorities to be accepted in a college with a worse GPA then a white person with a higher GPA, just for being a minority. We have black congress members, a black president, a black sheriff in Texas spoke out against the current activism that's happening. Cops kill MORE whites than any other race. There isn't heavy racism against anyone, its a cultural issues in blacks and Hispanics alike.
Women and men are paid equally already, look it up. Anyone who believes in the wage gap myth is a dummy. Why are we going to expand Social Security? To much people rely on it, yet we are going to expand it? There is a shrinking middle class and us expanding Social Security is going to shrink even more.
Free tuition? That's useless. We aren't some small European country we have 300 million people, paying for tuition for every citizen who wishes to go to college is insane, its to expensive. It's a waste of money, and it will ruin colleges by making them public. We need a re-haul in the education system, making tuition free won't fix shit. People are in debt because they are going into useless majors, we have WAY to many majors. Colleges need to cut some.
I agree with increasing the minimum wage, but not to 15 that's insane. It will have a drastic effect on the economy, prices are going to be increased, businesses are going to lose money, and no one is going to want to hire unskilled workers for 15 dollars a hour. We don't have a wage gap between women and men. Men pick longer hours, and jobs that pay more while women don't. It's a myth.[/QUOTE]
If I was American I wouldn't vote for Bernie. But I don't think this is the proper way to reply to him. Racism still exists in the U.S. just like here in Australia, only it's social racism and ongoing effects of institutionalised racism, rather than any form of deliberate racism enforced by governments.
The wage gap still exists and although in many specific occupations the renumeration between each gender may be the same, it speaks more about the different opportunities that men and women each receive. For instance a female CEO may be paid the same as a male CEO, but you might have a higher chance of becoming a CEO if you're a male.
I disagree with expanding Social Security so I agree with you on that, rather, Americans should be encouraged to sign-up to IRAs or 401(k) plans. It's what we do here in Australia; the government mandates that you (and your employer helps) save for your retirement. If you don't save up enough you are eligible for a means-tested aged pension. Social Security as it currently works in the U.S. will eventually suffer from a sustainability crisis because of ageing populations.
I also disagree with free tuition, but the way federal loans work over there is a bit silly. Cost growth of debt could be curbed by lowering the interest rate on those loans, uncapping the borrowing so that students don't have to resort to high-interest private loans, say a 1% tuition upfront to introduce a tangible price signal so students make financially-sound decisions, and income-based repayments while and after they've finished studying (also like in Australia) which also prevents students defaulting on debt. The 1% tuition upfront could also help curb cost growth by restricting institutions offering tuition discounting to only discounting that 1% tuition, rather than on higher amounts of tuition as they do now, which is a major factor for tuition cost growth.
The U.S. is overdue for a minimum wage increase, I think a reasonable figure would gradually increasing to $10 per hour by 2020. However the federal government could help through tax relief for the least wealthy Americans. Eliminating the employee-side Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes (and having those funded from general revenue) gives a full-time minimum wage worker $20 extra in their pocket every week. Eliminating the employer-side of those taxes helps all businesses, and it no longer penalises them for employing labour, so that helps make labour a more-attractive option compared to automation.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;48579518]If I was American I wouldn't vote for Bernie. But I don't think this is the proper way to reply to him. Racism still exists in the U.S. just like here in Australia, only it's social racism and ongoing effects of institutionalized racism, rather than any form of deliberate racism enforced by governments.
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Social racism won't ever go away, people will always be racist. But can you give examples to institutionalized because honestly I found nothing to support that it is happening here.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;48579518]
The wage gap still exists and although in many specific occupations the renumeration between each gender may be the same, it speaks more about the different opportunities that men and women each receive. For instance a female CEO may be paid the same as a male CEO, but you might have a higher chance of becoming a CEO if you're a male. [/quote]
When I say wage gap, I strictly mean how women and men are paid in doing the same job. But I disagree I think women and men have the same opportunities. Women, don't tend to ask for promotions or pay raises as much as men do. Simply doing good in a job won't get you noticed, you have to ask and be noticed which for some reason women don't. Actually, when asked men rather have women be their bosses than other men. They tend to understand how to employees manage work and their lives together.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;48579518]I disagree with expanding Social Security so I agree with you on that, rather, Americans should be encouraged to sign-up to IRAs or 401(k) plans. It's what we do here in Australia; the government mandates that you (and your employer helps) save for your retirement. If you don't save up enough you are eligible for a means-tested aged pension. Social Security as it currently works in the U.S. will eventually suffer from a sustainability crisis because of ageing populations.
I also disagree with free tuition, but the way federal loans work over there is a bit silly. Cost growth of debt could be curbed by lowering the interest rate on those loans, uncapping the borrowing so that students don't have to resort to high-interest private loans, say a 1% tuition upfront to introduce a tangible price signal so students make financially-sound decisions, and income-based repayments while and after they've finished studying (also like in Australia) which also prevents students defaulting on debt. The 1% tuition upfront could also help curb cost growth by restricting institutions offering tuition discounting to only discounting that 1% tuition, rather than on higher amounts of tuition as they do now, which is a major factor for tuition cost growth.
The U.S. is overdue for a minimum wage increase, I think a reasonable figure would gradually increasing to $10 per hour by 2020. However the federal government could help through tax relief for the least wealthy Americans. Eliminating the employee-side Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes (and having those funded from general revenue) gives a full-time minimum wage worker $20 extra in their pocket every week. Eliminating the employer-side of those taxes helps all businesses, and it no longer penalises them for employing labour, so that helps make labour a more-attractive option compared to automation.[/QUOTE]
No qualms here. :toot:
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579590]Social racism won't ever go away, people will always be racist. But can you give examples to institutionalized because honestly I found nothing to support that it is happening here.
When I say wage gap, I strictly mean how women and men are paid in doing the same job. But I disagree I think women and men have the same opportunities. Women, don't tend to ask for promotions or pay raises as much as men do. Simply doing good in a job won't get you noticed, you have to ask and be noticed which for some reason women don't. Actually, when asked men rather have women be their bosses than other men. They tend to understand how to employees manage work and their lives together.
No qualms here. :toot:[/QUOTE]
When I said ongoing effects of institutionalised racism I meant what the laws were before the civil rights era has caused a lasting effect on minorities today. For instance, those laws may have placed a disproportionate amount of minorities (specifically African Americans) in poverty, and as the poverty cycle is hard to break out of, a disproportionate amount of minorities still live in poverty today despite their no longer being such laws in effect.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;48579651]When I said ongoing effects of institutionalised racism I meant what the laws were before the civil rights era has caused a lasting effect on minorities today. For instance, those laws may have placed a disproportionate amount of minorities (specifically African Americans) in poverty, and as the poverty cycle is hard to break out of, a disproportionate amount of minorities still live in poverty today despite their no longer being such laws in effect.[/QUOTE]
We already give them money with welfare, we have Affirmative Action and Hispanics and African Americans alike are given a bonus in SAT [url=http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html]points[/url]. What more can we do? There's a problem in their culture that has to be fixed, I would support activism in that sense. But not against racism.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579392]Not as big a deal it's made to be in the news nope. I'm saying this as a minority too before anyone goes "hur you're white!"[/QUOTE]
So, you literally registered today, just to shit on Sanders. Also trying to support Trump. And nothing else at all.
Tell me, what is it like to be a gimmick account?
[QUOTE=gufu;48579753]So, you literally registered today, just to shit on Sanders. Also trying to support Trump. And nothing else at all.
Tell me, what is it like to be a gimmick account?[/QUOTE]
It feels good to [sp]NOT[/sp] be one. How does it feel to not be able to handle dissenting opinions tho? I already gave my points, if I was a gimmick I would of just said "Fuck Bernie, he sucks, fucking bitch" instead of giving why I personally won't vote for him and why I don't want him to be president.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579774]It feels good to [sp]NOT[/sp] be one. How does it feel to not be able to handle dissenting opinions tho? I already gave my points, if I was a gimmick I would of just said "Fuck Bernie, he sucks, fucking bitch" instead of giving why I personally won't vote for him and why I don't want him to be president.[/QUOTE]
Oh you mean like this?
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579220]Anyone voting for Bernie doesn't really care about America, they just want free shit.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579774]It feels good to [sp]NOT[/sp] be one. How does it feel to not be able to handle dissenting opinions tho? I already gave my points, if I was a gimmick I would of just said "Fuck Bernie, he sucks, fucking bitch" instead of giving why I personally won't vote for him and why I don't want him to be president.[/QUOTE]
Nah, you're still pretty gimmicky. You don't have to be a badly done gimmick to be a gimmick. There is no reason for anyone to join a gaming forum for political discource, there are better places for that.
[QUOTE=gufu;48579789]Nah, you're still pretty gimmicky. You don't have to be a badly done gimmick to be a gimmick. There is no reason for anyone to join a gaming forum for political discource, there are better places for that.[/QUOTE]
I'm mainly a lurker, just wanted to voice my thoughts is all.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579728]We already give them money with welfare, we have Affirmative Action and Hispanics and African Americans alike are given a bonus in SAT [url=http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html]points[/url]. What more can we do? There's a problem in their culture that has to be fixed, I would support activism in that sense. But not against racism.[/QUOTE]
I'm an accounting major, not a social justice major so I dunno. Could be reforms to primary education so that schools in poorer socioeconomic areas receive more assistance, although that's a states issue. Could be a job guarantee / workfare program aimed at broad society however which would have a greater proportion of African-Americans enrolling compared to other races (as they would have the most to benefit from such a program).
And of course their needs to be an economic solution, and through removing the Social Security and Medicare taxes that would both boost consumer spending (tax cut on the employee side) and create jobs (tax cut on the employer side and because of more spending). The economic boost would find its way minorities.
[QUOTE=gufu;48579789]Nah, you're still pretty gimmicky. You don't have to be a badly done gimmick to be a gimmick. There is no reason for anyone to join a gaming forum for political discource, there are better places for that.[/QUOTE]
A contrary opinion? Must be a gimmick.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48579359]Yeah, they will make problems WORSE. Systemic racism? Please, racism isn't a issue in this country. Affirmative Action allows minorities to be accepted in a college with a worse GPA then a white person with a higher GPA, just for being a minority. We have black congress members, a black president, a black sheriff in Texas spoke out against the current activism that's happening. Cops kill MORE whites than any other race. There isn't heavy racism against anyone, its a cultural issues in blacks and Hispanics alike. [/QUOTE]
Go back to /pol/
[QUOTE=Aldawolf;48579964]Go back to /pol/[/QUOTE]
A logically sound argument. You have truly demonstrated your commitment to intellectual discourse and the supremacy of your ideology.
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;48579893]A contrary opinion? Must be a gimmick.[/QUOTE]
There is more to people than political opinions.
[QUOTE=Aldawolf;48579964]Go back to /pol/[/QUOTE]
..For saying something that is truth? I mean /pol/ is always right.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;48578681]Also to make it very very very clear, I do not hate Bernie Sanders, Yes I see why Hiliary is hated by this subforum apparantly (the whole email thing), but I don't get the super hate for her. She has merits, she's a Clinton, She has solid experience in politics, and most important of all, she looks confident.[/QUOTE]
And is just another politician funded by and bending over backwards for corporations.
This country is run by money, and by proxy big corporations. Greed is actively harming this country and needs to be stopped. That is why I really want Sanders to win.
Also, I would probably vote for Trump over Clinton just because Trump is so extreme that it's unlikely he would be able to accomplish anything, Clinton on the other hand.
[QUOTE=Habloney;48580015]..For saying something that is truth? I mean /pol/ is always right.[/QUOTE]
I wrote a very long post listing examples of institutional racism, including stuff like how crack cocaine (85% black arrest rate) had a significantly harsher prison sentence than powder cocaine (58% white arrest rate). I dug into how we've buried institutional racism in our laws instead of flouting them like we did back in the Jim Crow days. I wrote about how the housing industry's discriminatory appraisal policies contributed to white flight, impoverishing inner-city black communities. I wrote about the school-to-prison pipeline, I wrote about how only 17% of college faculty are minorities. I wrote about profiling of Middle Eastern men in airports and of Black and Latino men with the NYPD's stop and frisk program. I listed a ton of examples of institutional racial discrimination still seen in the modern world.
Then I refreshed this page and saw this post and I was like nah not worth the time you're a troll
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580068]I wrote a very long post listing examples of institutional racism, including stuff like how crack cocaine (85% black arrest rate) [B]had[/B] a significantly harsher prison sentence than powder cocaine (58% white arrest rate). I dug into how we've buried institutional racism in our laws instead of flouting them like we did back in the Jim Crow days. I wrote about how the housing industry's discriminatory appraisal policies contributed to white flight, impoverishing inner-city black communities. I wrote about the school-to-prison pipeline, I wrote about how only 17% of college faculty are minorities. I wrote about profiling of Middle Eastern men in airports and of Black and Latino men with the NYPD's stop and frisk program. I listed a ton of examples of institutional racial discrimination still seen in the modern world.
Then I refreshed this page and saw this post and I was like nah not worth the time you're a troll[/QUOTE]
Keyword: Had, not anymore. The only thing that seems to be racism in your list is racial profiling and Stop and Frisk.
[quote]I wrote about how the housing industry's discriminatory appraisal policies contributed to white flight, impoverishing inner-city black communities[/quote]
And this, what does this even mean? Are you saying that when white people left their communities got worst? That sounds like racism to me.
[url]http://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/33690-so-now-were-at-the-point-a-totally-color-blind-housing-policy-is-discrimination[/url]
[QUOTE=Habloney;48580092]Keyword: Had, not anymore. The only thing that seems to be racism in your list is racial profiling and Stop and Frisk.
And this, what does this even mean? Are you saying that when white people left their communities got worst? That sounds like racism to me.
[url]http://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/33690-so-now-were-at-the-point-a-totally-color-blind-housing-policy-is-discrimination[/url][/QUOTE]
The crack cocaine thing was reduced in 2010 with the Fair Sentencing Act, from a sentencing of 100:1 to 18:1 - but it still exists. It was also not retroactive - meaning everyone who was arrested for crack cocaine possession prior to 2010 still has to deal with having a sentence 100 times longer than if that cocaine had been powder.
Just because something changes in law doesn't mean it stops existing entirely. The effects of those discriminatory laws still effect people. Do you really think that after subprime lending in the 90s was offed that every impoverished minority that had their credit butchered and were thrown into debt instantly recovered? Really? You think it just fixes itself the moment the law changes? You think that when this country legalizes marijuana we're going to release every minority tossed in prison for possession? It disproportionately affects minorities. No - they'll be in prison for ten years for a couple nugs of weed. The laws of the past still have effects on the people living today, even once they're overturned.
What about the fact that 77% of executions are from someone killing a white person, while only 13% are from killing a black person? [URL="http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_ICCPR%20Race%20and%20Justice%20Shadow%20Report.pdf"]Why are black people 38% more likely to get the death sentence than a white person for an equivalent crime?[/URL]
If you really think that one in every three black American going to prison in their lifetime is wholly attributable to social issues, you need to rethink your values. I am a vehement supporter of efforts to eliminate gang violence. There is undeniable racism in the justice system. It's not likely because juries hate black people - it's because of subtle, unnoticed patterns in our society that lead to unconscious discrimination against minorities. I don't believe all cops are racist KKK members - but I think that almost all cops react more harshly towards a black teenager than they would to a white teenager committing the same crime. There are studies that show that cops routinely overestimate the age of black teens by 3 or more years.
Some of it may be attributable to social issues in black communities - but when you look at the root cause of those social issues, they almost all lead back to Jim Crow laws and government-enforced institutional racism.
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;48579980]A logically sound argument. You have truly demonstrated your commitment to intellectual discourse and the supremacy of your ideology.[/QUOTE]
You're implying I was trying to argue.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580153]The crack cocaine thing was reduced in 2010 with the Fair Sentencing Act, from a sentencing of 100:1 to 18:1 - but it still exists. It was also not retroactive - meaning everyone who was arrested for crack cocaine possession prior to 2010 still has to deal with having a sentence 100 times longer than if that cocaine had been powder.
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Fair enough, something has to be changed then to get it enforced more and have their sentences reduced.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580153]
Just because something changes in law doesn't mean it stops existing entirely. The effects of those discriminatory laws still effect people. Do you really think that after subprime lending in the 90s was offed that every impoverished minority that had their credit butchered and were thrown into debt instantly recovered? Really? You think it just fixes itself the moment the law changes? You think that when this country legalizes marijuana we're going to release every minority tossed in prison for possession? It disproportionately affects minorities. No - they'll be in prison for ten years for a couple nugs of weed. The laws of the past still have effects on the people living today, even once they're overturned.[/quote]
It's been a long time since most of the super discriminatory laws, if it still effects anyone today. It's not a governmental problem it's a people problem.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580153]
What about the fact that 77% of executions are from someone killing a white person, while only 13% are from killing a black person? [URL="http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_ICCPR%20Race%20and%20Justice%20Shadow%20Report.pdf"]Why are black people 38% more likely to get the death sentence than a white person for an equivalent crime?[/URL]
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I'm all about removing the death sentence having this in modern society is backwards as all hell. This study was only based in Philadelphia and was done in 1998 with cases dating back to 1990. Trends have changed, is there anything more recent? Whites outnumber blacks in death row.
[img]http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/dr%20race.png[/img]
Actually the numbers are fairly equal, if it was truly 38 percent wouldn't there be more blacks in death row considering that blacks commit murder at a much higher rate than whites. They only represent 13% of the population, why is the rate so high?
[img]http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2014/11/27_bjs_use.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580153]
If you really think that one in every three black American going to prison in their lifetime is wholly attributable to social issues, you need to rethink your values. I am a vehement supporter of efforts to eliminate gang violence. There is undeniable racism in the justice system. It's not likely because juries hate black people - it's because of subtle, unnoticed patterns in our society that lead to unconscious discrimination against minorities. I don't believe all cops are racist KKK members - but I think that almost all cops react more harshly towards a black teenager than they would to a white teenager committing the same crime. There are studies that show that cops routinely overestimate the age of black teens by 3 or more years.
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Is it really a surprise that blacks have a higher chance in going to prison? If we go only by statistics they prove that blacks do indeed commit more crime. In 2013, blacks committed 38 percent of murders if you compare it to the percentage of black people in the US, it's simply to high. Back in 2007, blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Is the problem really racism? Blacks have a higher chance of going to jail cause they commit more crimes than any other racial group in America.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580153]
Some of it may be attributable to social issues in black communities - but when you look at the root cause of those social issues, they almost all lead back to Jim Crow laws and government-enforced institutional racism.[/QUOTE]
Jim Crow laws were a long time ago, it shouldn't be effecting anyone today. Blacks have an issue and the issue isn't racism, it's a social issue that they have to fix. I already said before that they have advantages to them when choosing jobs and colleges why is that being ignored?
[QUOTE=.Isak.;48580068]I wrote a very long post listing examples of institutional racism, including stuff like how crack cocaine (85% black arrest rate) had a significantly harsher prison sentence than powder cocaine (58% white arrest rate). I dug into how we've buried institutional racism in our laws instead of flouting them like we did back in the Jim Crow days. I wrote about how the housing industry's discriminatory appraisal policies contributed to white flight, impoverishing inner-city black communities. I wrote about the school-to-prison pipeline, I wrote about how only 17% of college faculty are minorities. I wrote about profiling of Middle Eastern men in airports and of Black and Latino men with the NYPD's stop and frisk program. I listed a ton of examples of institutional racial discrimination still seen in the modern world.
Then I refreshed this page and saw this post and I was like nah not worth the time you're a troll[/QUOTE]
You need to take into account the actual percentage of minorities when looking at things like minorities representation in college and university faculty. Have only 17% minorities in position is about where it should be because in the United states, the white population accounts for 77%, so 17% sounds like a pretty fair distribution.
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