EAllusion wrote:Droopy wrote:
This is ostensibly evidence for severely disproportionate levels of social pathology within much of America's black communities, not white racism, for which there is no logical connection with these data.
Drug use rates among blacks and whites in America are approximately the same. Yet a huge majority of people in jail for non-violent drug use charges are black. How does your theory of "disproportionate social pathology" square with that data?
Its not a theory, Mr. Wizard, but a matter of well-known and longstanding empirical facts that have changed little over several decades. If you can't even deal with fundamental common empirical knowledge on matters of sociological patterns and trends, then I'm afraid you've recused yourself from the table of serious discourse on these issues.
In any case, statistics, of themselves, tell us nothing regarding the causal factors involved in such phenomena as disparate incarceration rates or, for another example, disparate discipline rates at public schools:
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomasso ... /page/full
Its rather amusing to see a self-proclaimed "libertarian" attempting to foist what is essentially the traditional conspiracy theory regarding nation-wide institutional white racism within the criminal justice system and among police officers nationally as a class that arose originally within neo-Marxism and the black power movement and remains today centered within the radical Left.
The intellectual fraudulence of this position is, however, palpable:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html ... ddmCKzK2Zg
The "sage of South Central" unpacks the key facts and their implications here:
http://www.larryelder.com/b/Five-Myths- ... 01581.html
An interesting point from the above essay:
In 2010, blacks were 31.8 percent of all arrests for drug crimes. But arrests for drug offenses are only 12.4 percent of all non-traffic arrests in the country and accounted for 14.2 percent of the offenses for which blacks were arrested.