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K.Mooneyham wrote:I guess that liberal-progressive/leftist writer from Slate needs to turn on the TV, or perhaps take a look at some Internet news and see who the bombers really were...as it appears they were Chechens, not "white guys" in the standard use of the phrase...and perhaps Islamists, too.
Maybe you should drop by the FBI webpage and check out the crime stats sometime. The fact is, black males are about 6% of the population and they commit anywhere from 40% to 80% of all crime in the US, depending on the specific category. If you consider the fact that most of this crime is committed by young black males in their teens and twenties, their participation in criminal activity is even more disproportionate. How much do people worry about Asian teens walking into a 7-11? When one particular group of people are something around 8-10 times more likely to commit a crime than the members of another group, it's foolish political correctness to pretend that as a group, both are equal threats. That said, I suspect that the criminally inclined of all races behave in similar fashion when they are about to engage in crime, so you look for those signs, not just at the race of the person. If I see Colin Noir I'm not going to be the least concerned, but if I see a muscled up black teen with gang tats and an attitude I'm not going to pretend they are equal threats because they have the same skin color.Zen wrote: I'm not going to draw the same concern when I walk into a 7-11 that a black teen would