"Well being poor doesn’t cause you to commit crime. Nor does being black, or mentally ill. What leads you to commit crime is bad values"
I mean, what do I even say to this? If you were starving, or had no education, or lost everything you had, or never had anything in the first place, you'd just die quietly by the side of the road because…
"Well being poor doesn’t cause you to commit crime. Nor does being black, or mentally ill. What leads you to commit crime is bad values"
I mean, what do I even say to this? If you were starving, or had no education, or lost everything you had, or never had anything in the first place, you'd just die quietly by the side of the road because of your "good values"? If you were bi-polar or schizophrenic you'd never have any episodes because of your "good values?"
Has your life been so idyllic and sheltered that you can't imagine any circumstances where your values would come second to your survival? Or where your values came second to a mental health condition? I assume all the poor people in the world just didn't work hard enough too? And that all the rich people got there through good old-fashioned elbow-grease? That life is a pure meritocracy and the people with good values always end up wining in life? I can't believe anybody, including you, truly thinks like this.
But it's the line about the issue being "100% black culture" that reveals the real problem. I just got through pointing out that only an absolute maximum of 0.008% of African Americans are responsible for 100% of murders attributed to "the black community". Yet this is a problem with "black culture" in your mind.
For reasons that aren't entirely clear, you want to believe that the only issue affecting black Americans today is "black culture". And it seems you'll cling to this no matter what evidence is presented to you that highlights how simplistic that is.
Again, yes there are people out there who aren't willing to have the conversation about the various sociological and cultural issues that affect black people from within their communities. I agree. They want to blame racism for everything. But on the other side, there are people who aren't willing to have any *other* conversation. And who simply won't acknowledge that racism, past and/or present, is responsible for anything. You're both as wrong as each other.
"Well being poor doesn’t cause you to commit crime. Nor does being black, or mentally ill. What leads you to commit crime is bad values"
I mean, what do I even say to this? If you were starving, or had no education, or lost everything you had, or never had anything in the first place, you'd just die quietly by the side of the road because of your "good values"? If you were bi-polar or schizophrenic you'd never have any episodes because of your "good values?"
Has your life been so idyllic and sheltered that you can't imagine any circumstances where your values would come second to your survival? Or where your values came second to a mental health condition? I assume all the poor people in the world just didn't work hard enough too? And that all the rich people got there through good old-fashioned elbow-grease? That life is a pure meritocracy and the people with good values always end up wining in life? I can't believe anybody, including you, truly thinks like this.
But it's the line about the issue being "100% black culture" that reveals the real problem. I just got through pointing out that only an absolute maximum of 0.008% of African Americans are responsible for 100% of murders attributed to "the black community". Yet this is a problem with "black culture" in your mind.
For reasons that aren't entirely clear, you want to believe that the only issue affecting black Americans today is "black culture". And it seems you'll cling to this no matter what evidence is presented to you that highlights how simplistic that is.
Again, yes there are people out there who aren't willing to have the conversation about the various sociological and cultural issues that affect black people from within their communities. I agree. They want to blame racism for everything. But on the other side, there are people who aren't willing to have any *other* conversation. And who simply won't acknowledge that racism, past and/or present, is responsible for anything. You're both as wrong as each other.