crimsonfloyd
Active Member
Facts About Black People In The Unted States of America
-Balck people make up 34.8% of all teenage pregnancies 1
-the number Black people "without a legal source of income" is double the number of white people "without a legal source of income 2
-Black people make up 37.8% of total incarcerated 3
-Black people make up 46% of total cases of AIDS 4
-Black people only make up 12% of the total population 5
1
National Vital Statistics Reports
2
US Bureau of Labor Statistics
3
US Bureau of Prisons
4
Center for Desease Control
5
US Census Bureau
when i seem racist
it's not me having a problem with skin-tone
it's me having a problem with the whole ghettoville gangsta-culture that created these statistics
It's easy to throw out statistics without any context and jump to conclusions, but it's completely and utterly ignorant.
For example, a high percentage of African Americans in prison are incarcerated for non-victim crimes. On the other hand there is tons of white collar crime and corporate attrocities that go unpunished. So lets not pretend the imprisonment rate is indicative of the true crime rate.
AIDS and teenage pregancy has a lot to do with 1. poor sex ed in schools and 2. religious values. I would expect that you would see a similar pregnancy rate in poor, Chrisitan white areas. Inversely, I would expect there to be a low rate amongst affluent African Ameicans.
I'm not denying that there are cultural issues that in many poor African America neighborhoods that are parts of these problems, but to suggest that they are the only problem is just wrong.
