Yes, that is the question.The question is why is that?
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Yes, that is the question.The question is why is that?
Yes, that is the question.
Well let me put forth two different hypothesis. You can decide which is more likely.
Well let me put forth two different hypothesis. You can decide which is more likely.
Hypothesis #1
Black people are bad people.
Hypothesis #2
There has been systematic racism and discrimination against people of colour since before your nation was founded and it continues up to this day.
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Sorry, you can’t just shrug this off. It matters. Understanding this matters in how you move forward.I think it isn't my choice to make.
Sorry, you can’t just shrug this off. It matters. Understanding this matters in how you move forward.
Yes, your justice system is biased, (so is ours here in Canada before anyone thinks I am suggesting otherwise). And we all need to understand that. And we need to deal with it.
It is not that simple. If you go around living your life thinking that black people are more prone to commit crime than white people are that has got to affect how you see the world and how you interact with people. Even if you just think it is possible.I have nothing to do with the justice system, the criminal system or they prison system. Therefore I have no grounds to state why or why not.
It is not that simple. If you go around living your life thinking that black people are more prone to commit crime than white people are that has got to affect how you see the world and how you interact with people. Even if you just think it is possible.
Like this guy who just can’t say whether he is for or against slavery. It is not like he is going to own slaves or bring back slavery. But the fact that he can’t say slavery was bad means something.
And the fact that you can’t simply say that blacks people are not more prone to commit crimes says something about you.
That's not how your graph works (as I read it).Take 62%(whites) of the population and put 32% of them in prison.
Then take 12%(blacks) of the population and put 34% of them in prison.
By numbers, who has the most numbers in prison. (numbers, not %)
That's not how your graph works (as I read it).
62% of the population is unrelated to 32%
of state prison population.
The percentage of the white population
that's in prison can't be calculated from
the info in the graph.
Yes.62% of the population was white(2016)
32% of the prison population was white(2016.
So it clearly says whites made up 62% of the population and 32% of the prison population.
Yes.
That is correct. All the graph tells you is that of the people in prison, 32% of them are white. And that 34% of the population in prison is black.That's not how your graph works (as I read it).
62% of the population is unrelated to 32%
of state prison population.
The percentage of the white population
that's in prison can't be calculated from
the info in the graph.
Fixed it for you.That is correct. All the graph tells you is that of the people in prison, 32% of them are white. And that 34% of the population in prison is black.
Now, let's try a fair technique for selecting people: Let's say you wanted to pick out just 1% of a whole population for some special task -- say army service.One way you might do that is to divide their SSN by 100 and use the remainder. Thus, for example,you could just pick everybody whose SSN ended in 56. That would give you 1% of the population.
I'd guess 52% girlies, & 48% mouth breathers.Now let's assume that the original population is 52% female and 48% male. What percentage of the selected portion do you think would be female and what percentage male, since the selection method were fair and unbiased?
Yes, I saw that, too. But I'd be willing to bet there are some who don't see that just using the last two digits of a 9 digit number is the same as choosing 1% of them, because they wouldn't automatically understand quite what that meant.Fixed it for you.
(I thought gays were supposed to
be good at math...like Alan Turing.)
And full points for you -- go to the head of the class!I'd guess 52% girlies, & 48% mouth breathers.
And if it turned out that the selection amounted to 80% lovelies and only 20% knuckle-draggers, we would want to know why it should end up so unfairly, wouldn't we?I'd guess 52% girlies, & 48% mouth breathers.
Study after study has shown that black people are more likely to be incarcerated and for a longer time than for the same crime committed by a white person, there is also the factor of crime being greater in really poor neighborhoods and black people being more likely to be really poor, these two factors account for most of the difference, and both factors are a consequence of racism
And let's not forget that more whites are
killed than blacks. So they too should be
concerned about deadly cops.
Also 95% of those killed are male. Perhaps
sexism is even worse than racism, eh.