It's a trick question. The question asks for a prejudiced answer ascribing behavior on the basis of race. There's no answer that isn't racist. Your link is broken, but there's Racism-with-the-capital-R deep in the grain of that as well. Those statistics are based on convictions by a justice system not much removed from the time of the plantation overseers. Critics could, rightly, point out that a not-insignificant part of those statistics will be down to the Racism of the poverty-to-prison system that yields them. Crime statistics are awfully murky things anyway to use to extrapolate out broad-brush assertions like "blacks are more violent in the U.S compared to other races."
Mind you, I know you're from Philly and I'm not going to tell you how the world is any more than I would tell someone from Detroit, or Atlanta, or anywhere else. Will say, though, poverty would be a better basis on which to consider violence than race. You can't win for losing.
I certainly do believe that it is economic turmoil that causes the cascading mess of injustice. Nobody wins in the entrapment of poverty and it gets worse the longer it continues. It goes from societal immorality and drifts into societal amorality and that is the end of civilized behavior.
It's a trick question. The question asks for a prejudiced answer ascribing behavior on the basis of race. There's no answer that isn't racist. Your link is broken, but there's Racism-with-the-capital-R deep in the grain of that as well. Those statistics are based on convictions by a justice system not much removed from the time of the plantation overseers. Critics could, rightly, point out that a not-insignificant part of those statistics will be down to the Racism of the poverty-to-prison system that yields them. Crime statistics are awfully murky things anyway to use to extrapolate out broad-brush assertions like "blacks are more violent in the U.S compared to other races."
Mind you, I know you're from Philly and I'm not going to tell you how the world is any more than I would tell someone from Detroit, or Atlanta, or anywhere else. Will say, though, poverty would be a better basis on which to consider violence than race. You can't win for losing.
I certainly do believe that it is economic turmoil that causes the cascading mess of injustice. Nobody wins in the entrapment of poverty and it gets worse the longer it continues. It goes from societal immorality and drifts into societal amorality and that is the end of civilized behavior.