“Why Are White People Terrified Of Minorities?”

Extrano's Alley, a gun blog ^ | 23 July, 2013 | Stranger

[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 it’s 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 guy’s in-group if you don’t 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.

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* The Old Cop’s advice was to “get a gun, learn to use it, and use it if you have to.” A half century later, today’s 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 State’s crime rate since it became feasible shows just how effective that advice is.

[SandwicheGuy]

I have two statements that make peoples heads explode when I use them:

1. If you don’t like being judged by a stereotype, don’t work so damn hard to live up to it.

2. The “N” word is not a race, it is a voluntary behavior

I in turn have two statements:

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Damn fine sentiments.

[trebb]

“why are white people terrified of minorities?” A “when did you stop beating your wife” sort of question.

Yep - makes it clear we outnumber them but ignores that it's usually a single White getting accosted by a gang of Blacks - the vics definitely outnumbered in those scenarios despite the overall racial ratios.

[Biggirl]

Blame the problems we have in this country to our lack of positive moral values that are faith-based.