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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-07-19 03:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #2755 ]


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(Anonymous) 2014-07-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
There are also 5 and a half times as many white people in the US as there are black people. So - if you want to follow this line of reasoning, and I don't think you should - black people are committing a disproportionate share of crimes, and while the average crime is much more likely to be committed by a white person than a black person, the average black person is statistically much more likely to be a criminal than the average white person.

Of course you still shouldn't, because it's a flawed line of reasoning, but it's better to just reject it as flawed, rather than to buy the line of reasoning and attempt to out-calculate it.

(Anonymous) 2014-07-20 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
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It also depends on what kinds of crimes you're looking at. In my city a considerable number of black men get put away for possession (drugs, mostly marijuana).

Being put away for a violent crime probably would have different numbers. But I do agree that the reasons for which such high numbers of black people are imprisoned have very much to do with the history of the U.S.A and the institutionalized racism that has seeped into the educational systems and judicial systems. Let's be honest here.