Why is high crime rate in the black community ignored

It isn't.

Also, there is nothing violent about a single parent home.

Where did you get this 70% stat?

 

Not a kid, but a strange killing of an unarmed white man by police that remains a mystery 10 months after the shooting. I only know about this because it's local. Probably won't hear about it outside the DC area.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/08/ten-months-of-silence-in-the-fairfax-police-shooting-death-of-john-geer/

 

I don't know why I'm bothering to post in this thread. But the problems are economic and cultural.

I'm not sure there is a good solution.

 

Why don't you just say 'N!gg@s'
it is on the tip of our tongue
quit the euphemisms
quit the so called attempt at 'debate'

say what ya mean and speak it plain

Rocket River

 

No, I started the Facebook group called "Stop watching MSNBC, CNN, and Fox." I don't subject myself to the journaltainment of 24 hour "news" networks. As far as I am concerned, they are all steaming piles of dung.

Wouldn't know, don't watch that crap.

Let's face it, the conservative media doesn't give a **** about the lives of poor people as long as they are paying the penalties and interest that keeps them from being able to get ahead.

BTW, if you watch Fox, you are consuming the MSM. Given that they have the highest ratings of any 24 hour "news" network, they are about as "mainstream" as it gets.

 

As a white person, can you cite anything that prevented you from achieving because you were white? Anything? Poor whites aren't poor because they're white. There's a huge gulf that exists between what you see reality as and what the insidious reality really is between being white and not being white. There's a ton of evidence that bears this out.

White privilege is your birthright in this country and you just think that's normal. You want to hold a Latino or black child accountable for being born into a crime infested, drug riddled neighborhood with crap schools and no support system. Why is that? As a society you generate the people you invest in. It's not magic. You don't invest in these communities and you won't produce productive, educated citizens. That's basic cause and effect. You can whine about how they're stupid, lazy, unaccountable, etc but you're living in fantasy land if you think well educated, upstanding citizens are going to come out of those environments with any regularity.

Folks that start threads like these are just angry and ignorant. They pick and choose their favorite bits of information to push their racial agendas but it's really just babbling. They have no interest in actually addressing any problems. It's just whining. Nobody cares about anything in neighborhoods other than their own until it affects their neighborhood. Hence, white flight.

 

Growing up where I did I was the one profiled and looked down upon, the so called minority in my area. It's easy for you to blame society or whites for being the cause of minority struggles, that's an easy excuse to not be accountable for yourself or your family. The color of your skin is not the cause for being poor no matter how easy it is for an excuse. It's no easier for whites to get out of bad areas than it is minorities no matter how much you'd like that to be true. The root of inequality is money, and the majority of white families in this country do not have affluent families or old money. There are more for sure, but that's because whites being the majority in our country.

The terms white privilege, white flight, white guilt, etc. are for one racially charged and only accurate to a small amount of wealthier whites. When you use blanket terms for an entire race like that it's the same as any derogatory stereotype used towards minorities. My family, friends, and the majority of lower income or lower middle class white folks in general are not privileged by any means.
I do agree with you that the majority of these threads are indeed ignorant, but it's also irresponsible to use partial and subjective statistics to support your own agenda. Maybe I'm speaking for my area (c.e. King, smiley, forest brook, channel view, north shore) but the majority of people over there regardless of race don't let what they were born into, affect what they want to do with their lives. It's not easy to beat the odds but being accountable and responsible for your own actions and not blaming someone else or an entire race for your own situation is a start towards beating those odds wouldn't you say. Bottom line is inequality is economic and not racial. You have to make something happen if you want out of where you're at.

 

And I'm not saying that everyone there is a success story by any means. I know quite a few people that can't stay out of trouble and don't want to do better. But when you say that people can't become productive, educated citizens coming from a bad area that's just not true.

 

From the link your source cites:

"Children under age 18 who live with their own single parent either in a family or subfamily.
In this definition, single-parent families may include cohabiting couples and do not include children living with married stepparents. Children who live in group quarters (for example, institutions, dormitories, or group homes) are not included in this calculation. "

Wonder how that little footnote would influence the calculations.

I'm also interested how the excel spreadsheet listed different percentages in the 90% confidence interval (not quite sure what that means, perhaps somebody with a mathematical/finance background would care to explain) and who collected this data and in what manner.

Regardless, like I said before there is nothing inherently violent about a single parent household.

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/this-comic-perfectly-explains-what-white-privilege-is

 

Ah yes, all whites don't know how good they have it, smh. How about instead of just promoting black pride and injustice while only thinking of one race you think from an objective view about others. Things like this get me going, not one of you knows what every white person is going through, we struggle just like others and to insinuate that we are naive about how good we have it is just plain ignorant. Explain that to my cousins, 2 of which are currently in prison or 3 or my uncles currently in prison. Being white didn't save them did it? No what saves people is money. Honestly these terms are ironic in the fact that by calling whites naive about their situation you become naive to the fact that it applies to a very select few. Plus the fact that they are insensitive and a bit stereotypical, borderline racist. But that can't be right can it? It's not racist or bigoted if it's referring to those mean old poor white folks, smh.

 

The double standards are getting a little ridiculous honestly. If you want equality for all then it should be equality and not one race getting crapped on for the benefit of another. I am proud of who I am, proud to be white just like any black, yellow, brown, purple whatever man should be as well. We all have struggles and one struggle isn't worse than another no matter how you describe it in today's society period.

 

When you say this, this is how I take it.

"No, Racism is completely dead."

 

I don't think it's ignored, I just think everyone has already known it for so long that it's kind of like - old news.

 

No, this isn't saying that all white people have it good.

It's saying that people of color STILL have some disadvantages here. That's all it is saying, no where does it say "All white people have it good!"

What it's saying is that for certain people, despite the same grades they don't get admitted for higher education.

You can continue to pretend it doesn't exist, but name your child Shakisha or Darnell and put that on a resume...

 

It's just so obvious to see but most white people are oblivious. Willful ignorance

 

That might be your own insecurities when you interpret that sentence like that, it doesn't read like that at all. Racism is prevalent in today's society and it's not just one race being discriminated against, every race has some bigotry or discrimination towards them, yes even whites.

 

What it is saying is that white people are naive to the natural privileges they incur from being white, we have it good. That's an ignorant statement, I guarantee you wouldn't trade upbringings with me, lol. Yes there are some people who just have it made no matter what, that's the luck of the draw I guess, but you won't see me using that as an excuse not not to get mine.

Yes some names have a stigma about them, can't refute that but that's still not a reason to not try and keep going is it? Life's not fair sometimes, some will have it harder than others at times but that isn't singular to minorities.