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DOMS "your" facts are certainly not even close to objective nor do they hold to be true even outside of the US.
So blacks don't make up 12.3% of the nation's population? Blacks don't commit about 50% of all murders? Johannesburg isn't the rape capital of the world? Just because you don't like them, doesn't stop them from being facts.
blacks and hispanics make up the largest offenders of street crime, etc. in the US which they clearly do. they also comprise the largest percentage of those in the lowest income quintiles. study after study has shown inside and outside the US that street crimes are a function of concentrated rural poverty and not that of race. country's that do not have multicultural diversity in their populations also show that those in the lowest income quintiles commit the vast majority of street crimes, etc. clearly objective evidence that proves street crime has nothing at all to do with race/ethnicity.
country's that have much lower levels of street crime and poverty also spend substantially more on social protections then the US which spends the 3rd lowest amount as a percentage of GDP in the OECD. they also have lower levels of low paid workers in the lowest income quintile. aka..they have lower levels of concentrated rural poverty, hence lower levels of street crimes. on the other hand the US has the highest percentage of low paid workers out of all the wealthy industrialized country's in the OECD at 25% of the total labor force.
over the years latin american country's have reduced violent crime by increasing wages. in PR when the Navy bases were closed years ago and the economy went to shit, do you know what happened crime increased.
wow..who would have thought that there is a clear direct correlation between street crime and income....![]()
Excuse, excuse...blah, blah, blah...excuse, excuse. In that case, whites aren't guilty of performing slavery, because other people had done it before them. And they're also not guilty because they needed the slaves to meet the demands of the nation. They're also not guilty because some of their work was used in the war with the British. Blah, blah, blah...excuse.
Oh, wait, let me guess, excuses aren't for whites, right?
If you do the deed, you're guilty of the action. Yes, sometimes there are extenuating circumstances, but ultimately -- for good or for bad -- the responsibility is on the people that perform action; be it an individual, nation or race.
Also, Mexico is also an OECD country. So you're saying that America has more low paid workers than Mexico (51.3% as of 2008)? Additionally, living below the poverty line in America is nothing like living below the poverty anywhere outside the Western world.
You keep trying to throw out partial or irrelevant facts, opinion, and red herrings to obfuscate the issue. And every time I cut through it. No matter how much you so dearly want to think otherwise, equality among people is a lie.