can't speak about Native Americans because I have no experience of them, although the little bit of research that I have done on this community has suggested that they have very low violent crime rates despite poverty and a history of terrible mistreatment, so it goes even further toward disproving the poverty causes crime hypothesis. But I know nothing else about them and maybe in their case, discrimination does explain their situation to some significant extent. Or maybe your step-dad's situation was unique in some way. But none of the non-sense in the media is focused on Native Americans. And of course I don't deny that racism and injustice exist exist in the world, but only that it does not go very far in explaining the under-development in the Black community, of which I do have much experience and knowledge, and which is always in the media lime light. In fact, the victim-consciousness, self-entitlement, and racism-paranoia that wealthy white liberals fed to poor blacks has more to do with their under-development than anything else.
Well no, your views don't from a lifetime of experience but a lifetime of watching/reading liberal media. No one who has any experience of both Black and White poverty can come to the conclusion that poverty causes crime. Poor white areas have very low violent crime rates relative to poor black areas. In fact, there are twice as many poor white people than poor black people, https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032014/pov/pov01_100.htm in absolute terms and Blacks still commit 51% of the murders despite being only 13% of the population. Whites are killed by police more often relative not only to their population but also to the rate at which they commit crime. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-more-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/?page=all
There are more police in Black areas they are just too busy dealing with serious crime to leisurely pass by a park etc.
Umm no, that doesn't happen. That's just what the TV tells you to believe. Blacks are targeted by the police because they commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime, for instance. There is a heavier police presence in their neighborhoods which makes confrontations more likely and the ones who are tuned into martyrs were always at the very least resisting arrest, if not downright attacking police, paramedics, or someone else. Whites are actually killed by the police at higher rates but no one riots about that so you don't hear about it. We are not allowed to tell the truth without being labeled racists. That is the most egregious thing of all. We just have to sit back and be lied to over and over and over again. If people claim that an adult discussion is oppressive, they just aren't ready to be adults.
