White Ignorance at the Core of Racial Tensions

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

On that we can agree. Although people are willing to pay for mine.

Regards,

D-Ray

[icenine]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The per capita number of Americans killed in the Green Zone was probably less than the worse of America's inner cities. Washington DC's mayhem peaked in the '90's with 479 murders one year in a population of about 600,000. It's about 100/yr now.

Check out these numbers for Detroit in 2013. I doubt the Green Zone had remotely as much violence inside its walls.

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate per 100,000 people: 45

Total murders and non-negligent manslaughters: 316

Violent crime rate per 100,000 people: 2,072

Total violent crimes: 14,504

Population: 699,889

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6145404.html

I guess I should have said Baghdad....you know what I meant.

[JJIII]

Dueling videos! Certainly more entertaining than most of what's posted here lately!

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

TJ, when you attempt to toss anyone who disagrees with you into the same basket as a group of political extremists, you succeed only in diminishing the confidence of other readers in your ability to evaluate anything objectively, if not impairing your overall credibility.

Regards,

D-Ray

Yep.

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[finnbow]

Originally Posted by icenine

I guess I should have said Baghdad....you know what I meant.

I don't ascribe alternate meaning to members' posts like Joad does. You said Green Zone and I responded to that comment. Now, you move the goalposts.

That notwithstanding, apparently Detroit and Baghdad do indeed have nearly identical murder rates (48.2 and 48 per 100,000 residents, respectively).

http://versus.com/en/baghdad-vs-detroit

In the same vein, Chicago had more murders than Americans killed in Afghanistan in 2012.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1602692.html

How about this list of the most dangerous cities in the world?

Caracas, Venezuela; Juarez, Mexico; Baghdad Iraq; Detroit; New Orleans; Karachi, Pakistan; Capetown, South Africa; Moscow, Russia; Beirut, Lebanon; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ...rld/index.html

[ZeroJunk]

It is a shame what whites have done to the inner cities.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

It is a shame what whites have done to the inner cities.

Skin melanin levels have nothing to do with crime, though actions by whites over the past several centuries have indeed contributed to crime and dysfunction in America's inner-cities.

My point wasn't to criticize African-Americans. It was to say that policing in America's crime-ridden inner-cities is indeed dangerous, without regard to the how and why the crime levels got so high. There's plenty of blame to go around on that score.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

It is a shame what whites have done to the inner cities.

Deliberately abandoned, disenfranchised and disinvested in them the instant fair housing and other civil rights era laws required them to let blacks in? In that respect, I'd say you might be onto something.

But, I'm sure you were attempting to suggest something else.

Dave

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Deliberately abandoned, disenfranchised and disinvested in them the instant fair housing and other civil rights era laws required them to let blacks in? In that respect, I'd say you might be onto something.

But, I'm sure you were attempting to suggest something else.

Dave

I'm guessing ZeroJunk knows little, if anything, about blockbusting.

[BlueStreak]

Blockbusting, Steering, Redlining......whatever you want to call it. The decline of American cities isn't all about unions. There have been other forces at play for a long time. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that is either lying, ignorant or paralyzed from the neck up.

Dave