this is good. everyone should see this because the racism problem is the result of an "us vs them" mentality instead of an "all of us vs our understanding" mentality
I think part of it is there is some sort of idea that most black people are poor and most white people are rich. not the case, most of ALL of us are working class. we need to stop making an "us vs. them" war and stop looking at how we're different (like on the internet you see all this "white people shit". it's not white people it's just shit). let's focus on what we share.
I may be misunderstanding you, but I have a funny feeling I'm not misunderstanding the majority of other advocates out there. Really, watch footage of BLM rallies. They're cringeworthy.
Please do not turn FunSubstance into some progressive political platform. We are here to laugh, not to conform to your ridiculously dictatorial standards.
You could try to explain the misunderstanding when it happens to assure that the person you are with know what you mean. I mean this is worth pointing out but it's not entirely the person who misunderstoods fault.
White privilege is a bs term made up by Tumblr. We really don't have "racial problems" in our legal system so I have no idea where tf that idea comes from. And yes,black lives matter. We know that,thanks for pointing out the obvious. While we're at it,let's say Asian lives matter,Latino lives matter,Native American lives matter,WHITE LIVES MATTER. All lives matter. Don't just focus on black lives because "black lives matter" sounds catchy.
I don't know if you could call it "racial problems" but if you look at the statistics, the largest majority of prisoners in the United States are african-american. There seems to be some type of injustice here in terms of race. Especially with drug charges, there are just about as much white people that buy, use or sell drugs but it's mostly black people that are caught for it.
The majority of prisoners are black because blacks commit the most amount of crimes. Whites get arrested for it too,but less so,because they are committing that crime less.
No, it's really not. Trust me, I'm majoring in criminal justice and this is literally been the majority of my CRJ class this semester. This was also a topic in my sociology class. White people commit just the same amount of crimes as black people do but white people are much less likely to be caught especially if they come from higher class families.
That too. Black people are much more likely to get pulled over than your average white American male. A couple of years ago in NYC when mayor Bloomberg initiated "stop-and-frisk" where officers could stop anyone that looked suspicious and pat them down. They couldn't search them though unless they could feel a weapon through their clothes. But the statistics from that showed that black people were stopped much more frequently than white people when white people are as capable of committing the exact same crime any black person could commit.
"white people are as capable of committing the exact same crime any black person could commit" Well no fuckin; duh. But blacks still commit more crimes than whites. Just because whites CAN commit more crime,doesn't mean they WILL.
It was the point that blacks got stopped more than whites with hardly any suspicion at all of a crime being committed. Most of the black people stopped actually turned out to be clean and had nothing on them but found it to be embarrassing to be patted down like that in public for almost no reason at all.
I really don't know where you have your information of the fact blacks commit more crimes. I'd really like to know because of all the readings I have from my criminal justice class say otherwise.
I just briefly skimmed through here considering it's mostly just graphs but this information is about how many arrests are made. I stated white people commit crime just as much as black people do, they just don't get caught. An arrest would mean they got caught. But because of the racial injustice in the criminal justice system clearly it's going to state more black people get arrested than white people.
I'm saying that all races will commit crime,but blacks will commit the most. I'm not saying ALL blacks are criminals,and I'm not saying that they're the lesser race or something. I'm just saying they are the race that commits the most crimes. As for nerdsarecool's comment: How can you prove that whites get away with crimes more often?
Well clearly you can't really record that very well. But I do have a reading from sociology class that explains how exactly they do get away with it compared to people of a different race or social class. It's called the Saints and the Roughnecks. Unfortunately I don't have access to the digital copy anymore because I'm almost finished with that class but you could probably find it online.
But as for other racial injustices in the CRJ system there are obvious statistics about how a black defendant is much more likely to be found guilty compared to a white defendant of the exact same crime. Black people tend to get much higher sentences for the exact same crimes compared to whites and blacks are also much more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime.
This is why I'm in favor of a uniform punishment system. I realize how difficult it would be to implement since there are so many variables but if we had one then it would be more of did this crime get committed? If so did the defendant do it? If yes, here is the punishment. No more this guy gets a slap on the wrist while this kid gets "tough love".
Isn't this rwby_rose the same chick that defends her friend spidey tooth and nail back then in that attention-whoring-attempt post? Wow thought you were so much more tolerant. Apparently just the same attention whore as your friend with your ignorant and closed mindset.
LMAO! Attention whore?? Now I'm an attention whore for not only defending a friend who was going through a tough time,but also posting something that a GUEST (total pussy who isn't even brave enough to make an account and say this shit to me) disagrees with?
I really don't know where you have your information of the fact blacks commit more crimes. I'd really like to know because of all the readings I have from my criminal justice class say otherwise.