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Manchester based original indie band Random White:
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Basically, if you want to make a decision or judgement, you have to trust, to one degree or another the official data or you're (not you) just pissing in the wind and going on gut feelings and opinion, which is bollocks.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/quicktables/quickconfig.do?34481-0001_all
Unless of course you are inferring that black people are genetically predisposed to committing crime?!
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871399/
The sample included 13,706 White and Black youths between 12 and 17 years of age. Almost 5% of the households received public assistance. Approximately 3.4% of youths indicated selling drugs. Among Whites, rates of drug dealing were 4.5% for males and 2% for females. Among Black adolescent males and females, rates of drug dealing were 6.4% and 1.6%, respectively. Rates of drug dealing did not differ across race.
Now we've seen a bunch of articles such as this:
https://mic.com/articles/140247/new-study-on-drug-use-confirms-what-black-people-have-been-saying-this-whole-time#.Cpauy2fDf
That suggest white people abuse drugs more than black people. But it doesn't account for dealing.
Then you get this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/30/white-people-are-more-likely-to-deal-drugs-but-black-people-are-more-likely-to-get-arrested-for-it/
Which is the suggestion that white people actually DEAL drugs more often than blacks, but that blacks are more likely to get arrested for it. But the report "Excluded from the survey are persons with no fixed household address" and is a single social science study without any coroboration it would seem.
Then you've got quotes from police chiefs:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/blacks-disproportionately-arrested-for-marijuana-possession-in-pinellas/2199728
"On Snell Isle, I guarantee you you will not have white kids standing on the corner selling drugs. They will get paged and they will tell you where to meet someone. He may be selling drugs on Snell Isle, but he is doing it, I hate to say it, in a better way."
^ Very interesting article that one.
The two narratives don't seem to gel well together.
Also, I'd encourage you to think for a second about the things that would have to be true for that to be the case. You'd have to assert that:
1) All races get stopped at equivalent rates regardless of race.
2) Police are in the habit of letting drug offenders walk, once drugs have been discovered on their person, but...
3) Black people stupidly mouth off a lot more, which means they don't.
I don't think any race is genetically predisposed to committing crime.
It surely has more to do with social norms within your community, Asians earn on average more than any other racial group in the US, that's down to hard work, valuing education and choosing degrees that put you in the high earning jobs. Nothing to do with genetics, skin colour or racism.
Individuals coming from single parent families are more likely to become criminals and the black community is overrepresented in this area, I'm not sure how this could be down to racial discrimination?
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
Ta.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1
Huh? No, you said it.
The link you posted suggested that black dealers get caught because they do it from the street corners not the suburbs like whites. But that doesn't say anything as to how races act once stopped by police. You brought that up.
Arguing about where exactly the racism exists is moot, as it's so widespread that it's impossible to pin down to a particular sector.
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
https://www.facebook.com/RandomWhite
https://twitter.com/randomwhite1