Racism in America, Alive, Well, and supported by the Mainstream Media

Small simple things . Combating stupidity is number one , the future goal of those idiots is to impregnate the idea that race is irrelevant and that it's an outdated concept that only Nazi use . Every time you see an idiot talk such bull tell him/her about the recent medical advances that produced medicines dedicated to black people , about how black are at a far bigger risk to have heart attacks or to die from cancer ; about how white males are 5 times more prone to suicide and depression. Tell them ignoring such things means that the people will be deprived of information that can save their lives .

Spreading this type of information won't kill double standards in a instant but it will seed the info in their brain and will eventually lower the ferocity of their idiotic propaganda attacks . You have to keep in mind that this is a long term problem .

 

A great read on racism still alive in the US is: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

 

Do you feel the disproportionate incarceration of blacks justify or excuse the remarks in the OP?

 

It does not justify or excuse the remarks by any means.

 

Glad we can agree on that.

On the subject of your book, I'd be interested to see statistics on the incarceration of poor people by race, rather than all people by race. Its pretty easy to say our prison system disproportionately incarcerates black people, ignoring the fact 35% of black people live in poverty vs. 14% of white people. I suspect the larger bias in our prison system may be the disproportionate incarceration of poor people, either based on poor quality state sponsored legal council, their inability to influence the court of their value as contributing members of society, or combination of these and other factors.

Anyway, I'm not trying to justify prejudice of the criminal justice system against the poor, blacks, or anyone else. I personally think our criminal justice system is badly broken. Its become another, more sinister, form of welfare.

 

Just reading part of this book, I don't think I would like it. Here's an excerpt from the introduction.

How I see it - It removes all responsibility of black people for any crimes they commit, saying, it's not your fault, take no responsibility for your actions, it's just that society is prejudice against you! However, if a white person goes to prison, well, of course, it's just totally different. They don't just send people to prison without compelling proof. Along the way, there could be mistakes. However, IMO - I don't think it's common that innocent people are thrown in prison.

If doubt existed, at least I don't see that possibility of innocence only based on the color of a persons skin. And, to compare convicted felons with slaves, as if it's the same thing, well, I think that's insulting.

 

After reading that book my bullsh.t detector exploded . The problem of racism has only been tackled from the point of one race instead of all the races , you're never gonna diminish it with this kind of tactics , only make it worst .

 

America has been nice to its slave, proof is there are now dozens of millions blacks in america. In arabic countries they had lots of slaves, but they made sure to cut their genitals, that's why there are close to no descendants from those slaves..

Well now that I think of it, it was not niceness but an economical issue since arabic slavery didn't had the costs of crossing the ocean.. In usa it was more economical to breed them.

But anyway, about racism, there are laws, but like other things, the laws are one thing, if they are here it's because the problem is deep within us, and it's widely spread to be racist for a very long time, then the laws are put to fight off this.

But what I don't like is people who say there absolutely no difference between races, it's obvious in sport, in mathematics, also physical difference. Even if they are small and we're all humans, they still exist, so denying them doesn't help the cause!

 

Forget about sports , math and IQ the extremists would have people die because the doctors could be forced to ignore race . Genetic differences make each race susceptible to different medical conditions . The communists used the same carpet bombing tactic with "everyone is the same because we say so" and that ended up well It would be an unpardonable error to repeat the mistakes of history .