If you are bringing up statistics to make some kind of point against affirmative action then you're arguing that black people don't deserve to be positively discriminated because of something that results from a social construction.
To be fair there are situations where you can't get to know a person too well, so its more appropriate to rely on generalizations and stereotypes. For example, insurance companies will charge you more for auto insurance if your car is red, or you're a male. To say that being an african american wouldn't fit perfectly well into this is silly.
Those statistics don't mean that a middle class black person is 14 times more likely to murder someone. It means a randomly selected black person is 14 times more likely to murder someone. Did you even read the links I posted?
I understand that its mostly the blacks in the inner city zones of transition that make up these statistics, and once you look at african americans that have moved away, the perceived threat is higher than the actual threat.
You sound like Rudyard Kipling ffs. Are you seriously arguing against affirmative action on the basis that black people are inferior? Your sociology professor must love you.
No idea who that is, will have to look him up.
There's a difference between social level blame and individual blame.
If a black person mugs me in the streets in the inner city, it's his fault.
Sure, he might be there because of
society but that doesn't excuse his actions in the slightest.
The social level of things only comes into consideration when one is acting on the social level (e.g. making and enforcing laws), individually if a business owner doesn't want to hire someone based on race, why the forget should I care.
