MD wrote:Truth be told, it's true.
It's not a matter of hatred, or dislike; it's a matter of culture.
I have had business dealings with the following groups over my 55+ year life:
-Whites, Blacks, Browns, Yellows, Oranges, and Grapes.
-Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, every Latino or Island state between there and Brazil, European nations of every sort both East and West, Russians, Chinese, Indians, South East Asians of every sort, Australians, and a mix of the rest.
-Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Cultists, Humanists, Atheists, and Space gazers.
I measure everyone I meet by those and other criteria, and I do my best to understand each perspective.
It's a real pain in the ass, but it's worth the effort.
So yeah, I am a race profiler, and proud of it.
Quinny wrote:What's wrong with the human one?
How about the Oxford dictionary:KaiserJeep wrote:Careful, folks. You need to be specific about which definition of race you are using.
So, for example, Israel is currently proposing a law making it officially the State of the Jewish People. (That's the word they use in English.)A group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group
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In recent years, the associations of race with the ideologies and theories that grew out of the work of 19th-century anthropologists and physiologists has led to the use of the word race itself becoming problematic. Although still used in general contexts, it is now often replaced by other words which are less emotionally charged, such as people(s) or community.
Can we find this information in the Internet Archive:KaiserJeep wrote:Beginning in 2001 papers that noted observations about the new definitions of human races, such as that there were easily measurable differences between these newly defined races in intelligence, physical strength and endurance, propensity for violence, tolerance for climate extremes, resistance to endemic diseases, and the like, were quietly and quite remarkably "unpublished". The material was deemed unsuitable for public consumption, it was removed from public Internet access and like topics today are published only in hardcopy publications in the journals of Anthropology and Medicine.
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BTW, I don't really care about racial differences, but I am truly astounded that so much is happening right under our noses with so little public acknowledgment.
basil_hayden wrote:...But when the prejudice does not come with an open mind, and is accompanied by malice, then I consider it racism.
Stereotype on! It leads to some interesting surprises!
Sixstrings wrote:Average IQ by state:
Just a thought.
The report found most murders were intraracial, committed by friends or acquaintances of the victim. Stranger homicides were more likely to be interracial, with a lower rate of white-on-black murders than black-on-white murders.
The 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Report, a compilation of annual crime statistics, also shows similar data: 83 percent of white victims were killed by white offenders; 90 percent of black victims were killed by black offenders; 14 percent of white victims were killed by black offenders; and 7.6 percent of black victims were killed by white offenders.
t is true that the rate of black homicide victims and offenders were disproportionately represented compared to the general population, the 2011 BJS report found. The black victimization rate (27.8 per 100,000) was six times higher than the white victimization rate (4.5 per 100,000). Black offending rate (34.4 per 100,000) was almost eight times higher than whites (4.5 per 100,000), according to the report.
KaiserJeep wrote:People are convicted of crimes when they commit crimes. The inner cities where the poor are found are hellholes of crime, and that is why those in "abject poverty" are convicted of such at a higher rate - because the suburbs and the toney uptown neighborhoods are relatively crime free.
The system is set up to provide equal opportunity for all, nothing else. Many, many poor of all races and ethnicities have found their way out of the inner cities into happy and productive lives. It has been happening for generations. Every time someone musters the effort and willpower to escape such an environment, the gene pool in that place becomes a little poorer.
Equal opportunity plus equal ability would mean equal results. But we do not have equal results, do we? Because people do not have equal abilities, and we made it so.
There is one difference between today and past centuries. The poor used to starve, freeze, and die of malnutrition and disease in great numbers. It was a brutally Darwinian process, and the fittest survived and prospered after moving out of the blighted landscape. Nowadays, we house the losers all still in the inner city and give them money to feed themselves. They reproduce in great numbers, and we feed their offspring. Generations of failure to succeed, and the losers are no longer dying. We even collect those incredible losers who cannot even qualify for welfare, label them "homeless", and feed them, give them health care, and allow them to reproduce.
In effect, we are breeding an inner city population with no ambition, below average intelligence, and fewer and fewer chances to ever escape this terrible environment. They are easy pickings for the race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
We can either continue the failed system, or change it. Welfare could be replaced with a system where those who fail to complete their education and find employment are sent to farms where they will study and practice Permaculture, as part of the plan for when the oil runs out.
I have no doubt that such farms would immediately be labelled "plantations" by the race baiters. This attempt to help them will end before it even gets started.
When food gets very expensive after the cheap oil is gone, the inner cities die first. The kindly and well intentioned efforts of those "helping" the inner city poor have pretty well guaranteed that it will be so.
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