re: We are black people and we shouldn't feel like this

Mate, do you have anything to back up your claims?

It's a little girl giving a speech on a problem that, if it exists at all, is way down the list of things that the black community should be concerned with. And my statement is based on statistics. And I know you aren't stupid enough to think statistics are racist.

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Mate, do you have anything to back up your claims?

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I'm a black man living in a city that is over 60% black. Yes the generation before us did not take care of their kids. But this current generation is the total opposite.

In New Orleans?

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Are you inferring that these people are so out of control that they'd just start fighting because of a few words?

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Seems like that's what he's saying.

Maybe there's a reason cops, of all colors, have itchy trigger fingers around them.

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I'm just sick and tired of you all that has so much to say on the net about people but wouldn't mumble a word in their presence.

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What are you supposing would happen if they did and why do you think they do not?

Some of you seem to be having a heated convo but

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These are young highly educated people who are in college.

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Some of the dumbest people I have ever encountered are/were in college.

I dont know when it happened, but the idea of a person being considered smart because theyre in college is a load of crap.

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you still judge a group of people based on your small mind opinions on the actions of a few.

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sam·ple
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noun
1.
a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like.
"investigations involved analyzing samples of handwriting"
synonyms: representative, illustrative, selected, specimen, test, trial, typical

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Have you ever taken statistics? It's really mind opening!

For example if I did want to make a "judgement" about a group of let's just say...37.6 million... How much of a sample size would I need to make a judgement with 99% confidence allowing for a marginal +/-5% chance for error?

Amazingly there's a calculator



So, "Theoretically" it's really plausible to "know a group" by viewing the actions of a relative few.

Now that sample must be a bit random, so if say a group in Baltimore acts completely different from groups in North Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Oakland, Compton, etc.....then yes, you should meet each group to judge for yourself. But if they all act, walk, talk, like ducks, then no.

Now lets say we want to Judge Cops based on the actions of a few: "state and local law enforcement agencies employed more than 1.1 million persons on a full-time basis"



Amazingly, even though they are only 1/37 the population, you still need to view the same amount to pass the same judgement.

You don't have to do this if you don't want, but grab a notebook and note the next 700 of each group you see and ask yourself, as honest as possible, is what that person I'm viewing good or bad morally? With your own eyes, and not from "hearsay" (I was praying and a Cop shoved a baton up my arse for no reason)

Your choice, but just rememember it's mathmatically neccessary to judge groups based on the actions of a few....we can't see or ask everyone every time we want to know something...

That's cool. You don't have an argument, you just accuse people of being racist. That sounds about right.