On 2020-08-06 04:06, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 17:09:23 +1000 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
Where are the white racist equivalents?
Slaves in Africa were generally people seized by the local authorities for vagrancy and petty theft (the penalty for everything else being death) Some of them were populations engaged in stubborn but unsuccessful rebellion. If they had not been sold off, would probably have been eaten. They were vastly better off in America then, and their descendants are vastly better off than the descendants of those that remained behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States
Segregation was good for whites and good for blacks. Look at the school cafeteria. Blacks don't want to hang out with whites, and whites don't want to hang out with blacks. Diversity plus proximity equals war. Segregation created a black middle class, that had real jobs and real families, because it needed black shops, black cops, black judges, and black lawyers. Before desegregation, black men had wives, and black universities turned out blacks with skills in something other than hating white. Desegregation has destroyed city after city, starting with Detroit, and it has destroyed black people, who are now fatherless and now live on crime and welfare. Whites fled Detroit because black people were beating up white people and burning down their homes. Without white people to keep everything running, Detroit collapsed. When blacks were no longer sent to the back of the bus, white people stopped using buses because they got beaten up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Blacks commit more crime, and the most severe inequalities in incarceration are in Democratic states with an indulgent attitude towards crime, especially black crime. The question is not what proportion of a race get imprisoned, but what proportion of criminals of a race get imprisoned, and it is absolutely obvious that blacks are more likely to get away with crimes, or not be punished even if caught, than whites. It is absolutely obvious that blacks can get away with crimes more than white people, due to less enforcement, a revolving door policy by judges, and a remarkably indulgent attitude to attacks by colored people on whites. And strange to report, the more indulgent the State Government towards crime, especially black crime, the more unequal the incarceration rate. If racism caused inequality in incarceration rates, why are the inequalities distributed the way they are. By and large, the more progressive the state government the worse the disparity. Try to imprison less people, you are apt to wind up with a larger proportion of blacks in prison relative to whites in prison. What happens is that if you simply imprison less and police less, this decreases white imprisonment considerably but does not much decrease black imprisonment because it increases crime, and increases black crime more than white crime. Imprisoning lots of people reduces crime, but it reduces black crime considerably more, reducing the disparity in imprisonment rates. Black crime seems to be more sensitive to policing and enforcement than white crime, perhaps because blacks get less policing and enforcement than whites, so increasing enforcement on whites yields decreasing returns. If you make an effort to rehabilitate prisoners, and get them out of jail without them promptly needing to be returned, this tends to have more success with white prisoners, and again your disparity increases. George Floyd being a good example of someone who just needed to be kept permanently out of circulation as a danger to himself and others. Letting him out of prison with a slap on the wrist did not work out well for anyone.