re: I got my boots shined by a black man yesterday

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but it shouldn’t discount the injustices one race continually faces that the other doesn’t.

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Go on.....

And before you "go on" here's some numbers you need to look at (I borrowed this from a Poli Board thread):

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Let's look at the FBI's own numbers with regards to crime (and I'm only using crime instead of housing, banking etc because this seems to be what people are talking about today): 69.6% of victims were white, 21.6% were black. 53.9% of offenders were white, while 27.4% were black. 69.6% of arrestees are white, while 24.7% were black. So of course more whites will be killed than blacks just based off of simple statistics.

But here is where the numbers get wonky. 44.2% of murders are committed by whites while 53.1% are committed by blacks. (The numbers are even more skewed if you look at the under 18 age group) That's an astounding difference based on the fact that blacks make up 13% of the population. The numbers are only out of whack (compared to the population makeup) in murder, suspicion and gambling (who knew). White people do most of the crime and are arrested for most of the crimes (because of population numbers). Black people commit murder, suspicion (what exactly is that?) and gambling offenses (still who knew?) disproportionately to other races but it isn't because of population. What's the cause here? I don't know the answer to that. Blacks make up 33% of fatal shooting victims. But who is doing the shootings? Well according to the murder numbers 53.1% is done by blacks even though they only make up 13% of the population.

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