Yea, I never understood the poverty angle. On one hand I can see someone stealing out if desperation but I’ve known plenty of lower income people who stayed out of legal trouble. My grandparents grew up on small farms and were by no means rich and they managed to not commit crimes
Poverty makes everybody go up in crime. There's plenty of reasons for it. The problem is even without poverty, black crime rates are way higher than anyone else to the point where the most criminal whites are still committing less than the wealthy blacks.
Which means the poverty angle is only multiplicative, not the principle reason for black crime rates. Its something inherent to them specifically increasing it, whether genetic or their own specific culture being strong enough to overcome the truly massive hurdle that is white poverty/crime levels.
It is, but its not as cut and dry as it seems. A lot of it has to do with blacks, of all wealth levels, can't stop getting caught with drugs and still live in crime riddled black neighborhoods that in turn make them become involved in more crime.
So its not like a super rich black guy is out robbing stores, but he, and mostly his children as it seems is the biggest source of the actual problem, are still getting involved in illegal activities that things like black culture are heavily invested in.
It can be argued that black guys get arrested disproportionately for drug crimes, whether by presumptuous cops searching them more or just generally being harder on them, but if you know that'll happen you should maybe just not do fucking drugs.
The best shock was when people acted outraged at Jontron for pointing out that rich blacks do more crime than poor whites.
Because that not only destroys the racism angle, it also blows up the "well poverty though" angle they use to justify it.
Yea, I never understood the poverty angle. On one hand I can see someone stealing out if desperation but I’ve known plenty of lower income people who stayed out of legal trouble. My grandparents grew up on small farms and were by no means rich and they managed to not commit crimes
Poverty makes everybody go up in crime. There's plenty of reasons for it. The problem is even without poverty, black crime rates are way higher than anyone else to the point where the most criminal whites are still committing less than the wealthy blacks.
Which means the poverty angle is only multiplicative, not the principle reason for black crime rates. Its something inherent to them specifically increasing it, whether genetic or their own specific culture being strong enough to overcome the truly massive hurdle that is white poverty/crime levels.
I’m not denying those definitely a lot for me to unpack. But the first step towards addressing it is to actually acknowledge the data.
Agreed.
Is that Actually true btw? I never bothered to check it because when I heard it the news was age old.
It is, but its not as cut and dry as it seems. A lot of it has to do with blacks, of all wealth levels, can't stop getting caught with drugs and still live in crime riddled black neighborhoods that in turn make them become involved in more crime.
So its not like a super rich black guy is out robbing stores, but he, and mostly his children as it seems is the biggest source of the actual problem, are still getting involved in illegal activities that things like black culture are heavily invested in.
It can be argued that black guys get arrested disproportionately for drug crimes, whether by presumptuous cops searching them more or just generally being harder on them, but if you know that'll happen you should maybe just not do fucking drugs.