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> It is not race-related. I'd tell you to read "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, but I think you would only see blank pages.

• EGreg 9y ago
  Why are responses like these such cryptic hit-and-run allusions to lack of knowledge and assertions of bias? Why not directly engage with facts, statistics, right here instead of saying one should read an entire book, while offering nothing to directly address the substance of what we discussed? Look, there are members of the "Black race" who have a different culture and make more money and themselves look down upon "ghetto culture". Here are some elements of the culture: swearing frequently, guffawing loudly in public places, escalating arguments to violence over trivial things, filming themselves on youtube abusing defenseless people, etc. etc. Look, I come from Russia. I can readily admit - and so can many Russians - that certain sectors of Russian society have similar tendencies to drink and violent escalations etc. These are just facts and they are not race related, they are culture related. I am a man. I realize men are disproportionstely profiled by police vs women for violent crimes and are incarcerated far, far more often than women. Yet I am willing to deal with facts about men's behavior vs women's behavior on the average without yelling systemic sexism and that men are victims. We have to be able to deal with facts as adults and men, just like women, have the power over their behavior and probability of going to jail. When it comes to men vs women you presumably agree w me, but somehow you seem to suggest that speaking in non racial terms is racist. Why, because you think African Americans are incapable of making choices that other ethnicities (Han Chinese, Jews) can make when it comes to eg raising a family?