Is this true, CvM?

Agree. Remember only the careless and less intelligent ‘criminals’ get caught and if one is truly a ‘expert’ criminal he /she should (will) never get caught. All statistics about criminals is based on those who got caught i.e. ‘failed’ criminals as they were stupid or slack enough to be caught. So, there is every possibility that certain race has more ‘expert’ criminals than the other so their number in crime/jailed stats is always less and it proves nothing about they being more law-abiding. That is why it is said the psychology of criminals is more of psychology of “criminals who got caught” and hence “failed criminals” rather than “psychology of real criminals”.

I used to be really PC, but I think living in the city has made me racist. I’ve been mugged at gun point by a black guy and have seen my fiance’s windshield smashed in by a group of wannabe hoods. It’s definitely led me to profile people more than I used to. I’m cool with everyone on my block though, and it’s pretty diverse ethnically.

Why hasnt CFvsMB responded yet

I thought the unexpected 20 minute speech on Friday by Obama addressed this thread really well. I’m surprised no one has posted it here yet. If you haven’t watched it (and instead just saw sound bites), please go watch it :slight_smile:

My guess is, he is too mad to type and is currently taking some deep breaths…

He is protesting, slaying fawns, or doing both at the same time.

Or still hung over from his weekend. It was his last day at work on Friday.

Does he start his new job today? Or is he taking a mini funemployment staycation?

Some perspective: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/media-kids-racial-stereotypes_n_3624740.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009 “But there is good evidence that people, beginning as children, internalize the stereotypes that others have of them. As Ann Ferguson shows in her book, Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity, black children, especially boys, are stereotyped as pre-criminals; not adorably naughty, like white boys, but dangerously bad from the beginning.”

*fapcation

Take a black man and a white man, make them both poor with the same background and the white man will be just as likely to commit a crime as the black man.

If black people commit as many crimes as some say they do, I hope they stop protesting and take out Zimmerman.

In defense of blacks, maybe some of them have no choice but to dress like gangsters in order to blend and survive in their neighborhood because they still can’t afford a better place to live. Perhaps stormyhotel can provide some perspective on this.

Dress like a gangster? What does that mean to you? Seriously. I drive a pimped out car. It has 3 tv screen, no rims, tinted. Sometimes, depending on how I’m feeling, I let my pants sag. I bet some of you paranoid racist on here would take me for a gangster. I live in a relatively cheap and homogeneous apartment complex with a sprinkle of crackers here and there. Most people in my neighborhood dress the same way but It never occurred to me to label anyone as a gangster. Cops get called frequently though mostly for domestic violence stuff. earlier this year, swat got called in. Evidently this fool ordered some drugs through the mail which alerted the narcs. When they showed up he refused to open his door. Was very exciting to watch. I think he paid his rent for the entire year becuase I can see his mail pile up lol. On the upside, I live 7mins from my job, pay 30% less than market rate, and have almost 1000sqf to play in. Life is good

+1

Pinstripes and a cigar, thats how i picture a gangster.

How do you drive a car that has no rims? Is that a typo or am I missing something?

My nigga

Why hasnt CFvsMB responded yet

Yes, he’s right. Profiling is alive and well. While improvements have been made, we are still far from a post racism America.

^personal anecdotes?

Here is an anecdote: never take a cruise during the Super Bowl weekend.

Prices will be ultra-cheap, but most of the passengers (in Los Angeles) will be black. They will be rude to the crew, steal from cruiseship bars, not tip a red cent, and in general behave like fools.

If that sounds racist, so be it. It has been observed not just by me but many people who like to go on cruises.