Why is high crime rate in the black community ignored

You must have an agenda otherwise you wouldn't care either.

 

We should talk about it more.

Too many go to prison for nonviolent drug offenses

 

I guess you don't think people's lives are important?

 

Because people will a) call you a racist if you point this out, b) try to minimize or excuse it by blaming economics (black people don't commit more crimes, poor people do), institutional racism (black people get longer sentences, convicted at a higher rate, have less opportunity for legitimate income), etc., or c) try to change the subject and point out that some other ethnic group is overrepresented in some other area (often where the numbers are statistically insignificant, like most serial killers are white).

 

So just out of curiosity, what do you think the issue is?

 

aren't all of those things contributing factors though?

 

Because the're "the blacks". Conservatives enjoy the double talk of pointing out race in crime statistics or education statistics but ignoring race when it comes to solutions to those problems. Race is always tied to the problem but strangely not the solution. How does that work? Conservatives are all about slogans to solve problems and that's why they solve none.

 

So basically you are saying it's genetic?

 

"Why is the high crime rate in White communities ignored?"

- Asian American

 

why don't you just say what your really want to say. that black people commit more crimes because they are black

 

This is basically a Stormfront like thread. Just replace black with n-bomb and viola.

Very clever OP.

 

You say black, but I think you meant poor.

 

that's a huge part of it. Also the desperation of their financial situation with limited options or knowledge of how to take advantage of those options.

 

This, the drug war, along with its selective enforcement (heavy in communities of color, less so in white communities), has caused a LOT of violence, given power and money to gangs and other criminal organizations, and seen to it that 1/3 of black men are in some way under the supervision of the criminal justice system.

 

Very true, the actual problem is in poor communities, no matter the prevalent race. Unfortunately, many predominantly black communities fall in this category.

 

Also, government "helping" often doesn't help at all.