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To: TBP
An observation: Leftists see black and brown people through the prism of race.

Conservatives see brown and black people as just people unless given a reason not to.

Statistics can be manipulated but some numbers are just cold hard facts like:

(From 2016) The latest Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics showed the white population was 58.7 percent in August, compared to the 37.8 percent of blacks being housed at federal institutions. At the state level, however, the department said that black male prisoners represent 38 percent of the population while whites males account for 35 percent and 21 percent are Hispanic males. Overall, blacks are 5.1 more times likely to be incarcerated than whites, and blacks represent more than half of the prison population in 11 states.

I think most people know a lot of this gap in percentages is due to a loss of the family unit in many black families. We can thank the social program "welfare" to be the root cause of this for reasons everyone on FR knows. #babydaddy Reminder: Blacks are 13% of the population but black males are 38% of the prison population.

I read recently that PC leftists now want black people to be called blacks instead of "African-Americans". Well heck; conservatives have been saying something similar for decades. Get rid of the damn hyphenated labels and just say Americans or if specifying by race; black Americans. Unless a black person literally immigrated from Africa they are not African-Americans. Same with Italian-Americans or Jewish-Americans or Irish-Americans. Lose them all. In the UK they don't have those kind of hyphenated labels. Someone is either British or they aren't. Period. It should have been that way here too for the last 100+ years.

10 posted on 09/04/2021 7:30:37 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism ruins everything it touches. NUTS - Not United Troubled States.)
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To: Boomer

Jessuh Jackson won’t like this. He is the one who started the “African-American” nonsense because to call someone “Black” was racist.


11 posted on 09/04/2021 8:04:03 PM PDT by benldguy
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To: Boomer

The alte Walter E. Williams was filling in for Rush one day and a caller asked why he didn’t call himself African-American.

“I’ve been colored, I’ve been Negro, I’ve been black,” Williams said. “I’m too old to change again.”


12 posted on 09/04/2021 8:09:34 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Boomer
Leftists Liberals see black and brown people through the prism of race
13 posted on 09/04/2021 8:55:24 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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