Salinas California Police Department caught beating a man

[Aces]

why are you talking about race

I brought it up.

This "intellectual" apparently needs to educate us despite not having a grasp of basic mathematics. I would've used something non-racial if that wasn't all he talked about.

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[Badger]

shh

[Camel]

I brought it up.

no im trying to show the irony of calling someone out for bringing race into an issue when the situation is about race

[SeventhSandwich]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/05/the-new-congress-is-80-percent-white-80-percent-male-and-92-percent-christian/

[Awesomebread²]

u know asians are the minority cos if u add up the "non-asians", there ends up being more non-asians than asians

right guys???

[Camel]

if i have 10 marbles, 4 of which are red and the other 6 are blue, green, black, and yellow, the red marbles are obviously the minority cus you can just add up all the other colors of marbles cus there's really no difference between colors.

[Cantaloupe]

Lol, you have one mayor, his wife, and a minor district representative as your sole examples of black New York politicians. It totally doesn't appear like you're grasping at straws.

Cherrypicking aside, the ratio of white New York politicians to black New York politicians is very high. If you disagree with that, you're delusional.

Ever thought that maybe many of these black people just don't vote? Many black people run for office here, but not many seem to win. Couldn't it be plausible to say that these people don't go out and vote? It's already been proven that low-income people, and also minorities tend to have far lower voting rates compared to whites.

You cant complain about whitie controlling everything when you don't even vote, let alone for your own people. Also I am not putting black people and low-income people in the same category, however, typically African Americans nationwide tend to have some of the lowest incomes per capita compared to any other group. There is also a major issue when it comes to voting in the Hispanic community as well.

In New York City alone, nearly one quarter of African Americans live under the poverty line, and over one quarter of Hispanics also live under the poverty line. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/nyregion/new-york-citys-poverty-rate-reaches-highest-level-since-2005.html?_r=0)

[Foxscotch]

Many black people run for office here, but not many seem to win.

I have no idea what you were trying to say with this
but it is absolutely not in your favor

[Camel]

Ever thought that maybe many of these black people just don't vote? Many black people run for office here, but not many seem to win. Couldn't it be plausible to say that these people don't go out and vote? It's already been proven that low-income people, and also minorities tend to have far lower voting rates compared to whites.

You cant complain about whitie controlling everything when you don't even vote, let alone for your own people. Also I am not putting black people and low-income people in the same category, however, typically African Americans nationwide tend to have some of the lowest incomes per capita compared to any other group. There is also a major issue when it comes to voting in the Hispanic community as well.

In New York City alone, nearly one quarter of African Americans live under the poverty line, and over one quarter of Hispanics also live under the poverty line. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/nyregion/new-york-citys-poverty-rate-reaches-highest-level-since-2005.html?_r=0)

so what's up with salinas huh

[HellHound]

if i have 10 marbles, 4 of which are red and the other 6 are blue, green, black, and yellow, the red marbles are obviously the minority cus you can just add up all the other colors of marbles cus there's really no difference between colors.

Actually, they would be the majority, given that each marble of blue, green, black, or yellow could at most have 3.

[SeventhSandwich]

Ever thought that maybe many of these black people just don't vote? Many black people vote for office here, but not many seem to win. Couldn't it be plausible to say that these people don't go out and vote? It's already been proven that low-income people, and also minorities tend to have far lower voting rates compared to whites.

There's a variety of reasons why civil engagement is worse among lower-income groups. However, those reasons are essentially irrelevant because mobilizing more black people as voters won't get black representatives elected if other ethnic groups don't vote for them. They are a relatively small part of the population, and, to no surprise, the biggest ethnic groups get the largest amounts of votes. It's just math.

You cant complain about whitie controlling everything when you don't even vote, let alone for your own people. Also I am not putting black people and low-income people in the same category, however, typically African Americans nationwide tend to have some of the lowest incomes per capita compared to any other group. There is also a major issue when it comes to voting in the Hispanic community as well.

Your first wrong assumption is that all of the people complaining about racial inequality do not vote. Your second wrong assumption is that getting black civil engagement to the same level as white civil engagement would balance out the number of representatives.

In New York City alone, nearly one quarter of African Americans live under the poverty line, and over one quarter of Hispanics also live under the poverty line. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/nyregion/new-york-citys-poverty-rate-reaches-highest-level-since-2005.html?_r=0)

There are enough black people above the poverty line that we could fill more offices. If your argument here is, "There are too many poor black people, and so there aren't enough black contenders for office", I think you're wrong.

[Redo]

Actually, they would be the majority, given that each marble of blue, green, black, or yellow could at most have 3.

I think that's exactly what he was trying to say.

[Camel]

Actually, they would be the majority, given that each marble of blue, green, black, or yellow could at most have 3.

nvm

[SeventhSandwich]

Hey, everyone, instead of arguing about marbles, go and actually look up the definition of 'minority group' and recognize that it has nothing to do with whether the group is <50% or >50% of the population.

[Kearn]

Actually, they would be the majority, given that each marble of blue, green, black, or yellow could at most have 3.

majority
      noun ma·jor·i·ty \mə-ˈjȯr-ə-tē, -ˈjär-\
: a number that is greater than half of a total

plurality
      noun plu·ral·i·ty \plu̇-ˈra-lə-tē\
: a number of votes that is more than the number of votes for any other candidate or party but that is not more than half of the total number of votes

stop being wrongggggg