700% more likely to commit violence...
like someone said; people getting caught and prosecuted does not equals the number of people committing the violent crimes
i dont know if you are familiar with psychology i got interested in that when i was younger and ive learn about pavlov's dog for instance
here is what he would do :
- bring food to a dog
- ring a bell
its called conditioning
so then he could simply ring the bell and the dog would salivate
cuz on a very basic level thats how our brains work
if you get sexually abused as a child more chances are that you are gonna sexually abused someone as a adult
if you beat a dog all the time or beat a kid good chances are that you are gonna end up with a fuckt up kid or dog that is gonna go beat or bite people
i guess you get that correlation right ?
well i see this in the bigger picture of what did happen in africa
they had lots of warfare, but not as bad as it is today but thats how slavery started i think
you had people going to war for the sake of getting prisoner so that they could sell them to Europeans
and then they where slaves
so back then in north and south america, who was committing the crimes ? lots of whites where slave owners, well it wasnt a crime back then but i guess you are talking about being more prone to violence right, and back then its the whites that was doing the bad thing
so would you have being racist againts whites back then ?
but anyway thats not my point,
what did slavery brought is conditioning on a whole group of people
it lasted a very long time and it was pretty atrocious
then it got better and now there is a black men in the white house and women are allowed to vote and gay can almost marry and we can almost smoke weed legally but we aint there yet just like racism is still alive
and as long as there will be racism there will be inequality and there will be blacks filling up those crime charts
crime is related to poverty and obviously if you and everyone else that is "black" comes from slavery then it aint like they can magically get rich once slavery got abolished
so the slave mentality keep perpetrating itself over and over and is still alive today
if you got loving parent there is less chance that you are gonna start hating people
if you are expose to french you are gonna speak french
if you are expose to english you are gonna speak english
if you are expose to love you are gonna express love
and if its hate you r gonna be a hatter
so try to understand the whole situation of what some africans had to go through and how it influenced their behavior up to today
its conditioning it aint in the genes
and i was centering on the americas but now look at what did happen in africa
you had people from europe coming to africa and doing whatever they cared to do, cuz, well thats what we do as human, we are at war, we come and conquer, we extract the resource and keep it all for ourself, and war is the usual mean to achieve that
(and war will fuck you up, you get deep trauma out of it)
so people who came out of africa had to fight alot and steal and exchange technology including the social technology ( the social structure and organization and planing and all that civilized stuff )
so european had a plan and guns and african were no match
it really doesnt mater if they were black or white or any colors or any culture
its all about power
someone is gonna be on top and someone is gonna eat crap
africa got crap
all the violence that has being pushed toward africa and african is still in there, now they give what theve receive
blacks ending up committing crimes is just a reflection of where they come from
and like i said it really aint about "race"
as ebola pointed out there is no such thing as race
ginger and brunettes are of the same race in a similar way that whites and black are of the same race, its called the human race, thats science
but your cultural background sure does influence most of who you are and become
and some blacks are still perpetrating aggression cuz of the aggression that they have received (or are receiving)
be it the one im talking about or the infinity of other reason there is to push someone to commit a violent act
and sorry if this is all badly worded
i hope i can present a different perspective that might make you see things differently, like in a better light
cuz if you say that violent crimes are a bad thing i would assume that you wish there was more love out there, more compassion and all that plur
love can come from understanding, and racism sure doesnt rhymes with love
can that make some sense to you ?
(btw there is some stuff in there that arent so well expressed and some people might conclude stuff that i didnt intend, so please dont be too quit to assume too much out of the details, its more of a general picture fastly drawn thing)