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I didn't want to post this on the various threads where I have seen it mentioned, because I want to hear some opinions, and if I post it on any of the other threads, it is going to get lost in the back and forth about the flag/Drew/protests/riots/police brutality.
Every time there is a discussion about racial tensions, inevitably someone brings up black on black crime. I have seen a few posts (maybe more than few) and even video, using that phrase and some statistic to either shift blame to blacks/black leaders, as a way to "normalize" or even excuse the police's treatment of black people, to imply that blacks are more violent that whites, etc.
Of course, statistics without context are useless. In this particular case, I am interested in P(B|A), or the conditional probability of B happening given that A happens or happen.
So, the question is simply this:
Given that the black community in general distrusts the police and the judicial system to actually impart justice for them (neither has given them reason to do so IMO), what recourse do they have to settle grievances?
From the perspective of someone on the outside looking in (I am not black, just an observer), this mistrust is so ingrained in black culture because of the history of abuse and harassment they have suffered for centuries, and I believe it to be the root cause of the so called black on black crime.
What say you?
Every time there is a discussion about racial tensions, inevitably someone brings up black on black crime. I have seen a few posts (maybe more than few) and even video, using that phrase and some statistic to either shift blame to blacks/black leaders, as a way to "normalize" or even excuse the police's treatment of black people, to imply that blacks are more violent that whites, etc.
Of course, statistics without context are useless. In this particular case, I am interested in P(B|A), or the conditional probability of B happening given that A happens or happen.
So, the question is simply this:
Given that the black community in general distrusts the police and the judicial system to actually impart justice for them (neither has given them reason to do so IMO), what recourse do they have to settle grievances?
From the perspective of someone on the outside looking in (I am not black, just an observer), this mistrust is so ingrained in black culture because of the history of abuse and harassment they have suffered for centuries, and I believe it to be the root cause of the so called black on black crime.
What say you?