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Except that every example I pulled from Philadelphia, a city where I would like to live, but where I do not think I can raise a family safely, was black-on-whit
by henrymercer 12y ago
Except that every example I pulled from Philadelphia, a city where I would like to live, but where I do not think I can raise a family safely, was black-on-white or black-on-asian crime. Read the links I included, this is a racial issue. From an analytical standpoint, the crime is best understood as an ethnic conflict, just as Palestinian-versus-Jewish or Jewish-versus-Palestinian violence or Hutu-versus-Tutsi violence or Whites-lynching-blacks are all best understood as ethnic conflicts. To not describe it and analyze it in these terms, cripples your ability to understand the problem.
- igravious 12y agoExcept that I'm sure there is lots of black-on-black crime as well. In short, there is lots of black crime. Why? Because of the shitty socio-economic position they find themselves in due to centuries of subjugation, institutional and social mistreatment. And that happened because of their race. In that way it's a racial issue. White racism. Blacks were for a long time not even classed as human, which is a classic dehumanizing tactic used to view the other as an object to be used rather than respected. Comparing black crime in the USA to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory or to the Belgian initiated ethnic violence in Rwanda is wrong-headed and very prejudicial thinking.