1. colonialism, institutionalised racism and the slave trade have made a shitty situation for black people that they are still not out of. In certain areas they simply get arrested for being black.
Yeah but today you have welfare, you can vote, you have public schools and a bunch of other things, even if you don't enjoy the same standards of living someone in Denmark does there's no acceptable excuse at all to have 9 kids with different people and look after none of them and people fucking do that out of their own free will, not because of racism.
In US more black people are killed by other black people than by the police.
This is due to a couple of centuries of, let's say, a negative culture towards people of african descent.
And people
proving stereotypes to be true. I don't walk outside in the night with fear of being robbed by
poles.
You couldn't really say what you've said if you had any idea of the shit they put up with in the us. The rammifications of such things last centuries. Not days.
Yeah, welfare and cheap consumer products. That's really terrible and I'm sure it's because of hundreds years of slavery.
2. If you think a race of people have a certain lean towards criminal behaviour, you're a moron who is at odds with the leading geneticists, psychologists and neuro-scientists, y'know involved in people's behaviour. Also it clearly shows you're a racist who judges people on superficial details.
Did I say that anywhere?
I do believe that some people might be genetically prone to exhibit violent behavior (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A) , but then every armchair/real psychologist will state that genetics don't define everything about a person so that would be a shitty excuse even if it might have worked in a murder trial.
Associating black people with crime is just something you end up doing by 1) being robbed by black people 2) watching black people rob others. You do that automatically. There's no way around it.
3. a website which 'harmlessly pokes fun at black people' continues the stigma that they are inferior, and to be laughed at. It is dumb, really disturbing, dangerous and grotesque and to be honest kinda insulting to be of the same species as the kind of people who find that kinda shit funny.
I think having black skin and smoking crack does that a lot better than a website. I think south africa does that better than chimpout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGOPVhQ5rhs4. you honestly think people here will become dumb racists when he's older?
See number 2. But I'll try to repeat myself again: you make associations based on life experiences. That's how the brain works. I'm not saying that people start believing that being a member of ethnicity X defines what you are. That's dumb as hell.
you're making a massive asumption on a group of people based on no solid evidence. It's like saying mexicans are worthless layabouts, jews are coniving thieves, germans are militant racists or arabs are terrorists.
What assumption? The only assumption I made was that you were a nicotine addicted liberal with a white guilty complex.
Man, I grew up in a council estate with many of my closest friends being from pakistan, sri lanka or other places. I knew people of all races, and it didn't take me more than about 1% of a second to realise HEY THESE ARE ALL PEOPLE and I've never judged anyone on anything like race because, people are people. Some are good, some are bad.
Hm, fine, but I wonder if that would be the case if you had grown up in Detroit
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