Post originally by Sabermane at 2004-12-11 00:46:11
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Ok, Mr. "Truth", let's refute:

I will say that in truth most or indeed all black neighborhoods are places of nothing but decay, misery, poverty, violence and utter hopelessness.

1. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922246.html

African American population has been increasing for over 200 years. I doubt such an utterly hopeless world would do so.

2. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/028.html

African Americans are getting better educations, getting more jobs, and (for married couples at least) making more money now. Drops occured--but happened on both sides of the 'color line'.

3. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00.htm
Even though there are five times more white drug users than black, 62% of convictions for drug use are African-Americans. Why? because people think that blacks cause a "downward spiral from which there is no escape".

Are there problems with the common view of inner city youth culture? Yes. Black culture? Yes.

How about white culture? God, yes--I'm as white as the day is long, and I could go on FOREVER about how white guys suck.

Instead of assuming that they're just naturally inclined to evil (what is this, D&D? Killing baby orks next?), maybe we could start--as a people--to look at the real problems and fix them?