Black People - Stop Blaming Racism, Take Responsibility

[Regina]

It is really funny how people like to point out black crime numbers to justify stereotypes but few realize crimes like serial killing and mass murder are a white people's problem - Curiously it's not common to arbitrarily arrest white guys like me because of 'potential danger'. Why the double standard? Did anyone ever notice most serial killers and people who go on killing sprees are white males?

I don't know about that. If you do a wikipedia search for worst cities for murder you have to go pretty far down the list til you find a city that's mainly populated by white people.

I don't know what the argument about arresting people for arbitrary reasons is but I'm just pointing out that it's very doubtful that serial killing and mass murder is a white people's problem. 

To be honest though, people talk about "crime rates are higher among black people" and the statistic is thrown around without any context. We don't actually think about a very important question. Why?

Statistically, black people in America (and the UK) tend to be poorer. In severely deprived neighbourhoods, you're more likely to be led into crime, because you are neglected, and you struggle to escape from it because the system fails you. Crime becomes an attractive (or convenient) way of getting things you want and need.

If you look at it like that, it becomes less of a "black people problem" and more of a "poor people problem". These people are not criminals because they are black, they get led into crime because they are poor and often desperate. If you were to go to a very poor white neighbourhood, you'd find exactly the same thing, crime rates would be much higher than they would be in a middle class white neighbourhood. In fact I witnessed that myself growing up in an area that was predominantly white but still very poor, it was still not a safe area. It had exactly the same gang and drug issues we associate with black neighbourhoods, but the faces were white.

It's an issue of poverty more than race. It gets mis-labelled as a "race issue" because a disproportionate amount of black people are poor relative to white people.