RE: Micheal Brown deserved to be shot.
December 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2014 at 7:49 pm by Aractus.)
(December 6, 2014 at 10:48 am)Losty Wrote: Lolwut? Maybe I'm just reading this wrong...but the 2013 census estimate shows something like 78% of Americans being white.Oops I did get that statistic wrong. What I should have said was not that by volume they are the majority of the prison population, but that they are the majority by volume of poor neighbourhoods, which is where criminal activity mostly occurs.
Statistically white people are more likely to commit most crimes.
I didn't get my main one wrong which is that Aboriginals are around 10x more likely to be incarcerated than non-Aboriginal Australians.
Going by this page, it shows the white prisoner population to be 59%. It seems true that whites are about 78%, and according to Wikipedia blacks are 12.4% of the population, but 37.4% of the prison inmate population.
As I said it's a statistical fact that there are many more criminals in the African American community than there is in the non African American community. It probably is around 10x, like it is here in Australia with Aboriginals. And I can assure you it has nothing to do with Aboriginals being profiled targeted and discriminated against by the police as some people seem to be claiming.
(December 6, 2014 at 9:57 am)Chad32 Wrote: they patrol the black and hispanic neighborhoods.Incorrect. They patrol the poor neighbourhoods, which are themselves predominately occupied by Black and Hispanic people.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke