Which group of states has a higher homicide rate?

[opebo]

Second, according to the 2005 UCR (complete 2006 data not yet available) the Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter rate for Blacks was approximately seven times (well, slightly more) than the white rate. 

And why do you suppose that is?

[opebo]

Second, according to the 2005 UCR (complete 2006 data not yet available) the Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter rate for Blacks was approximately seven times (well, slightly more) than the white rate. 

And why do you suppose that is?

Well, one part of the reason is the drastically different rates of home ownership.

I'd say a much bigger factor is parenting style.

You're both wrong, but at least Carl Hayden is less racist than Memphis.  Things like homeownership or 'parenting style' are caused by the political actions of the powerful.  In other words the rich cause these social problems.  How could it be otherwise?

[opebo]

Things like homeownership or 'parenting style' are caused by the political actions of the powerful.  In other words the rich cause these social problems.  How could it be otherwise?

Strangely enough, there is a sliver of truth in Opebo's assertion.

In the 1960s and 1970s, welfare rules were such that they encouraged family breakup. 

Also, in the past few years the legal system has grown more tolerant of child molestation but less tolerant of parents resorting to corporal punishment to discipline children.

How odd that you are willing to look for root causes, but rather examining the capitalism that situates each of us in our station - including the poor in their hopeless one - you instead examine a feeble attempt to assuage some of the miseries caused by the system. 

As for 'child molestation', it is both exceedingly rare and treated much more harshly now than in the past.  In the old days it was virtually never pursued or prosecuted, now it is.  But aside from that fact, it is very rare - you propose that the poor Blacks are doing poorly in school because their momma's and daddies ed them? 

Lastly, no amount of beating a poor will change the fact that he is a poor, firmly lodged by political power into society's lowest and most servile postion.  Beat him all you like, but he will still be devoid of hope and well aware that the only thing that makes sense is to beat back or die trying.