Posted on 07/24/2007 6:27:58 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
One of my four brothers graduated from the University of Iowa, but being an African American male, I don't think I want to spend too much time in the Hawkeye State. Only about 2 percent of Iowa's population is African American, but blacks are 13.6 times more likely than whites to be imprisoned there. That's more than twice the national average, which is bad enough
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The writer of this article needs to wake up and smell the crime statistics.
Congressman Billybob
these articles are so stupid..........fix black families
make black fathers responsible....and moms too
problem solved or at least helped a lot
Yeah, I think Gilbert probably suckered The Beav more than the others — like when he hung Beaver out to dry during the taking of the class picture — but first Larry, and then later Whitey and Richard also recognized young Theodore for the sap he was.
Scholars have correlated a larger number of churches with a larger number of crimes of crime too. What they tried to hide was that the larger numbers of churches were present in a larger community, thus for a given crime rate you have more occurrences. Again, lies, damn lies and statistics.
Ping To Mr or Mrs Sensitive, see post 59
I wanted to say this to you... way back when...
TT
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
No. The Great Society helped many poor people. The black community did a lot of harm to their own community and continues to do harm.
I agree. Just stuffing prisons with black men seems non-sensical. I think we should continue the practice of stuffing prisons with criminals, without regard to race. If one race is over-represented statistically, then so be it.
So rather than incarcarate black men he wants to declare crime against blacks retribution free.
First, where’s the barf alert for this?
Second, I agree but for different reasons. We should kill the murderers, and do a “Lord of the Flies/Escape From New York” style prison for the violent but non-murdering ones.
Oh yeah, you can throw all the colors of the rainbow in there with them too. I don’t go by color, I go by the crime.
You are making a causal inference that has no basis. Just because the black community is destroying itself you are blaming the disaster on a social program that preceded it.
Public smoking has been outlawed. Why not blame that?
Automobile emissions have decreased. Perhaps that is the problem.
Why not look at the black community itself and lack of personal responsibility.
The black community would like to blame someone else. Anyone else.
Sigh....
The prisons are not stuffed with blackmen. They are stuffed with criminals.
I work for a blackman. I work with blackmen.
They are not criminals
That program did not precede the black community. It seriously damaged it. I’m not against help for those that need it! O.K. I’m against language which divides cultures.
A racist story! The taxpayers of Iowa don’t like feeding and clothing those thugs of any color!
....From Iowa?
Why did the Great Society damage only the black community?
It helped many poor people but somehow damaged only the blacks?
Explain that.
Hey, it worked out great for Australia. LOL
Do no crime and you will do no time. What does the author suggest they do with criminals, regardless of race? Sheriff Ampaio in Arizona has a singularly effective suggestion for perps.
The prize quote is this, though: "But numerous scholars have correlated crime to conditions of poverty - and African Americans remain disproportionately poor." This is the most damnably racist statement of all. So poor black people don't know the difference between right and wrong? Does that mean that rich white people are the most moral, then? Yeah Ted Kennedy is a paragon of virtue.
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