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Poll - Total Votes: 27

Minorities are violent, moochers

Minorities are people like any others there are good n bad.

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Do you feel that minorities are predisposed to violence, and take more than they contribute?

There is no need to comment but if you could give an honest selection in the poll I'd appreciate it. This is not a racially charged post. I do not want bickering about who's culture is better or what not. I would just like a general consensus. Please n thank you.

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Coppercoil · M

I find it more related to poverty than ethnicity, and minorities tend to be concentrated in more empoverished areas. There are lots of poor white people in the us. But they are spread out on more rural settings. When you cluster poor people together they become violent and predisposed to commit crimes to survive or for other reasons. There are a great deal of statistics by the fbi out there that are very clear that minorities do commit the majority of violent crime, even though whites make up 70+ precent of the poplatoon. It is a simple fact that is irrefutable, however, are minorities genetically more predisposed to commit that kind of crime? No.. I don't think so at all. You just can't see them out of the context of the poverty and dense population centers. The only way to stop the violence is not through more laws.. but through more opportunities. In my belief there is a strong argument to be made that these empoverished communities are designed and fecilitated to be as they are by the government for a multitude of reasons. Prison labor.. ongoing cultural divisions.. state control via welfare and public housing.. etc. The rabbit hole goes very deep and is painful to look at.

VioletRayne · 36-40, F

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rottenrobi · 56-60, F

Coppercoil, I agree. The system becomes a revolving door and it's this never ending loop. A crime is committed, they do their time, come out and go back to their community. They're told not to hang out with felons and their old friends, which is impossible, as there are no job opportunities to keep them busy and productive. Something happens, cops come and they're picked up for parole violation because of hanging out with their friends on the corner. They catch another case, and another..... it's a big fat mess. Caught in the system. It's no wonder people become bitter and begin to identify with being a criminal. There's not a lot of hope in these communities. I watch my neighbors come and go, in and out of jail. Looking at cops like what now? I'm not doing anything, and yet they're snatched up for being with someone with a warrant.
This is white, black, Latino, Korean, Chinese, Philippine.... it really doesn't matter. The one thing they all share is being in a community that's historically poor, with limited to no opportunities. They might be out there but these opportunities aren't posted for all to see. We don't even get pizza delivered into my neighborhood, no papers delivered either.
Makes all if us who live here feel a bit ripped off. Just a few blocks over, the parks have green lawns and clean streets, grocery stores... people care. We have littered parks and corner liquor stores.

Coppercoil · M

@rottenrobi: I agree. It's designed that way. It's not a misfortunate coincidence. Prisons and the judicial system makes money off of thsee people by creating, swapping, and selling bonds. Like any bureaucracy the bigger it gets the more it needs to feed on the population they report to support. Then their is the literal slave labor aspect. Many prisoners work for pennies on the dollar in factories making big profits for corperations.