Quote Originally Posted by baggiematt View Post
Have you never considered that poverty causes crime and black minorities have never properly escaped the poverty they have historically been placed in?

A quick Google search tells you that nearly 20% of black Americans are living below the poverty line compared to 8% of white Americans. Similar inequalities are the case in the uk. There’s more than enough evidence around historic marginalisation of black people in America and the UK over the years.

I still struggle to understand your logic for why guns should exist in America and think this blinkered suspicion of other historically oppressed races is what has caused not enough momentum to change gun laws and has cost the lives of innocent children. I honestly believe Robus, that you and many Americans have childrens blood on your hands.
Here is what I understand Matt: Income differences account for some but not all of the crime disparities between racial groups. Regardless of race, low-income people commit more violent crimes than high-income ones. However at each income level, blacks commit violent crimes at higher rates than whites, Hispanics and Asians at the same income level.

Whatever troubles blacks in the US doesn't seem involve "systemic racism." Nigerian and West African legal immigrants earn higher incomes than the average for white Americans, as do East Asians. South Asians have the highest income levels of income of any sub-group within our population.

Is there a persistent "anti-black racism" as the CRT crowd tell us? I believe it exists and accounts for some, but not all of the outcomes differences. Example: My neighbor is addicted to landscaping her yard like Michael Jackson was addicted to plastic surgery. Every day for weeks on end crews of Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Hondurans and Mexicans haul wheel-barrels of sod in and out, nary a green card among them. I'm watching a group of them out the window as I type. Twenty years ago, the landscapers all used black laborers. My neighbor is afraid of black people, so she contracted less landscaping back then. She is happier now.

BTW, about 3 million unskilled laborers walked across our borders since Joe Biden ripped them wide open in January, 2021. My neighbor voted for him.