Oh dear... the old blacks-and-crime thing again
First thing to remember: the crime rate among blacks
is rather high.
Second thing to remember: there is no link between having a certain skin colour and being violent and/or a criminal. If you *actually* think that, then you are a racist.
The debate usually ends at the second point...
Third thing to remember: inner city areas across America have an awful lot of social problems caused by just about anything imaginable (let's not play politics here, there's no need to) and one of the largest is the collapse of the family structure in these areas mainly due to (and isn't this always the way?) a few oversight's on a particular social programme. This collapse has hit blacks (the overwhelming majority in most of these areas) extremely hard and has, especially as it's been combined with more typical inner city problems, resulted in the creation of an underclass (nothing unusual so far; due to the other social problems this is common pretty much everywhere but...) one that is
unusally rootless, sadistic, rapacious and parasitic.
