Posted on 07/26/2013 4:15:32 PM PDT by marktwain
Someone stopped by searching for why are white people terrified of minorities?
Good question If I thought white people were actually terrified of minorities, and if I just had a socially acceptable answer to support that belief. So let me scratch my head and walk around that one, while I search for an answer and a suggested solution should the premise prove viable.
Of course, if the surmise is correct, the problem is called xenophobia, stranger fear in ancient Greek. Having seen many competent minorities of all varieties gladly accepted both socially and professionally by whites, I cannot accept that whites generally are xenophobic. Specifically is another matter. There are haters in every group of humans, and the most noticeable of those are the ones who judge a person by skin color.
While I am sure that severe xenophobia exists, many palefaces consider they have good reason to approach unfamiliar black faces with some caution. Essentially, the 2010 census found 12.6 percent of Americans are black while 72.4 percent were white. So there were 5.746 whites to every black Americans. If the percentage of murderers were the same in both populations, there would just under 6 white murderers to each black murderer. Yet the FBI reports that 2,958 of 5,862 or 50.46 percent of black or white offenders, murderers, were black. (click on the graphics for a clearer view)
For a closer look at what the Center for Disease Control feels is the age group at greatest risk, here is a graphic that more clearly shows the relationship between black, white, and Hispanic murder rates in the 10 to 24 age group:
Of course, there is a bad reason the black violent crime rates are that high. Those rates are quite representative of a disarmed people whose economic opportunities are limited. Given the facts, it should be obvious that some palefaces, living in areas where the black murder rate is particularly high, have reason to look askance at a strange black face suddenly showing up in front of their house, or even worse, in their personal space.
And that leaves us with a two part answer to the question implied in the search.
The solution to the crime rate in disarmed black communities is to enable every law abiding citizen to take the Old Cops advice* and avail themselves of the cactus defense of take a bite if you dare but its going to hurt you. Many black societies began to arm, or rather rearm, themselves after the States loosened restrictive gun laws in 1992 and 1993. The result is clearly visible in the CDC graphic, where the homicide rate in the most at-risk segments of black society have been cut in half in just 18 years.
Societies that arm themselves against criminal predation have extremely low violent crime rates; while societies that give criminals an all safe signal in the form of restrictive gun and self defense laws are like any other prison. They are unsafe even with armed guards and razor wire topped fences. They are also poverty stricken, since each active criminal on the loose costs their community upwards of a million dollars a year, with the bulk of the costs falling on those living with six blocks of where the criminal sleeps.
The solution to the xenophobia problem is something many are unwilling to try. Small talk. You have no chance of becoming a trusted member of the other guys in-group if you dont talk to members of that group. Talk is the key that opens many locks. There is little chance of gaining the mutual trust between demographic groups many say they want unless the groups start with talk about the many smaller things every human has in common.
Stranger
* The Old Cops advice was to get a gun, learn to use it, and use it if you have to. A half century later, todays version would be get a gun, learn to use it, get a permit, carry it everywhere, and use it when you have to. The decline in the United States crime rate since it became feasible shows just how effective that advice is.
You know, I agree with the people who say they’re not terrified. It’s more like, bring it on already let’s settle this.
“Those stats would be more meaningful if they screened out murders by people who know each other (family, roommates, etc.) and showed the stats for murders by strangers. It seems to me the vast majority are the former, and thats not what people are worried about.”
Here is a good look at that.
The Misleading Murderer that you Know:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-misleading-murderer-that-you-know.html
The same reason zoo keepers are scared of the lions.
The premise of the question is just plain wrong. I don’t carry a gun because I’m concerned about blacks. I carry a gun because it’s a tool for a particular kind of emergency. By definition, I can’t know in advance how that emergency is going to start or how it will develop. So I prepare myself for a broad range of threats. A white person who’s acting in a suspicious manner will be treated with suspicion.
It’s not fear or “terror”; it’s preparedness.
“Why is it that only countries of majority European descent are having multiculturalism shoved down their thoats against the wishes of the ethnic majority?”
I think there are two primary reasons:
1. Those countries have the most developed assets to plunder.
2. Those countries are the source of the baneful political system of leftism, that has run out of excuses as to why it does not work.
i’m not the least bit terrified of minorities. I’m embarrassed for a few but not terrified.
It should also be pointed out that blacks are almost unique among Americans in not getting along with people from other races. Whites, Indians, Asians, and Hispanics generally get along well with each other, though each group does have a typically small number of troublemakers.
However, many black go out of their way to make enemies of whites, Indians, Asians and Hispanics. There is zero reason for any group other than whites to offer blacks any concessions, advantages, consideration, etc., that they neither earn nor offer to reciprocate. Whites have gone way beyond any serious reason to do so, and continue to do so.
But this does not seem to matter one whit to many blacks, who constantly demand, blame, parasite, offend and attack just about anyone else, *most* especially, other blacks.
The only conclusion that can be reached is that it is not the color of black people’s skin that matters; it this, for many, their abject lack of good character.
And it isn’t racist to point this blindingly obvious thing out. But it is racist for most blacks to hide behind their race in pretending it does not exist.
Bingo!! No reason to be afraid of these scumbag cowards. When the SHTF, these rats will run for cover, and we’ll need to flush em out.
I’ll tell you why after you tell me why post #5 was deleted.
Stop calling these $hitheads men—they are scumbag cowards and males at best.
Of those that have tried, each was black. No white people have ever tried to kill me.
“How many black people killed you for no reason?”
Using “you” as the plural “you,” and the city of Chicago, lots of black people have killed lots of black people for no reason in random drive-by shootings. Senseless violence. Murder as a sport.
“Why is a dog eating homosexual Asian -
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Huh? Dog eating? My daughter in law is Asian-Ive known her for almost 20 years.
Where do you get this stuff?”
Perhaps you aren’t aware that Obama has written a couple of books (or Bill Ayers has). BTW, the sun comes up in the East.
I am white. I am not terrified. I will be vigilant when I am in a higher crime area—where there have been assaults and shootings.
It just “happens” that those are “minority” areas.
Why do minorities always want to assume what I am thinking?
Most white people are NOT terrified of minorities.
They are however rightfully wary of young black
people as while a politically incorrect thing to
acknowledge all whites know that they are in real
physical danger when in proximity to them.
Prezee be a puppy eater! He claims he's black, but wont show any ID.
our homicide problem is a product of our negro and Mexican problem. To say otherwise is to varnish the truth and that is exactly what we do in America. Me, I am not terrified of anyone or anything but I would not trust a group of young black men nor would I wish to find myself unarmed and alone in a black or mexican “hood” in the middle of the night as I’m sure I would be “profiled” right before I became a homicide statistic. I will conclude by saying that our negro/mexican problem is quite clearly a product of our government problem and until we fix our government problem, the black/mexican/ homicide problem will go unresolved.
I dated a Spanish woman for a while, back in the day,(she was beautiful, BTW)and she would come unglued if someone called her Mexican. She was extremely prejudiced against any of the Hispanic peoples and didn't consider herself or any Spaniard an Hispanic.
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