Oh come on Joe.

We all know that a very large percentage of the cops in the US are African Americans.

They have just had an African American president, yes the worst one ever, but no white Republicans rioted.

We all know that there is a higher percentage of white deaths in custody in Oz, but all we ever hear about is black deaths in custody. I would love to see the statistics for white deaths in custody in the US. I'll bet quids it will be the same as here.

The problem is when the no-hopers in a country can point to a common denominator like dark skin, they always blame their lack of success on that, rather than on their lack of ability.

God I am sick of bleeding hearts.

Well, at least the rioters & looters aren't too worried about COVID-19, yet !

Hasbeen,

Maybe not really: African-Americans make up around 33 % of all Americans, but 60 % of the deaths at the hands of police (including African-American police officers).

Yes, in Australia, Indigenous people make up around 28 % of all people in custody, but only 23 % of deaths in custody.

Of course, they make up only maybe 2.5 - 3 % of the population of Australia, so there needs to be an explanation of that difference - do Indigenous people commit proportionally more offences warranting custody ? Given the high rate of foetal alcohol syndrome, especially in the north, which has terrible effects on behaviour from an early age, thaqt may be a major factor.

Joe

Onya, ttbn.

To Chris Lewis. Like so many white people today, you seem to be petrified of being called a racist. You claim that you "could be called a cultural bigot", which ignores the fact that race and culture are linked.

I was once an anti Apartheid demonstrator, who came to realise that those who claim to be anti racist were extremely racist towards white people. That led me to use critical thinking to examine the whole idea of whether racism is valid. My conclusion was, that the idea of races being equal is simply potty. And, everybody is racist to one degree or another. And, just like every other human vice, it cannot be simply categorised as the 8th Deadly Sin and supposedly expunged from human consciousness. Like every other human vice, it is the degree to which a person is racist which is the problem.

The white people in the USA and in Europe were conditioned to think that racism was so bad that they stopped fighting for the survival of their own race and culture. They are now looking at civil war between themselves and their imported minorities. On the subject of racism, a white man in the USA is 60 times more likely to be assaulted by a black man, than a black man is likely to be assaulted by a white man. A white woman is 200 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a black man, than a black woman is likely to be sexually assaulted by a white man.

Which race is the more racist?

London, the safest city in the world, now, through third world immigration, has a homicide rate greater than New York. It is time that the white race stopped cringing about being called "racists" and realised that a bit of racism to protect their own communities is no bad thing. And that so called "anti racism" is simply racism against whites using a euphemism.

I regard Binoy Kampmark like the black Rhodesians who rejoiced at expelling the white farmers. Now they are all starving to death.

It just is.

The best way to ride the train wreck of the Western cultural demise, is to learn to ride the train wreck to its conclusion. Survival.

The dividing lines are already crystal clear. The yawning gap between rich and poor.
The poor are the enemy.
They just happen to be predominately black.

In the US, as in Australia, the police service is used as front line troops to persecute the poor at the lowest level; in particular treatment of the homeless offers the best view of this in action.
Local government make the bullets for the police to fire: Rules designed to make the lives of the poorest in the community a living hell, with an intention of moving the poor along and out of sight.

The huge homeless problem of the US, was as a consequence of Reagans actions in closing down mental institutions, forcing the mentally ill to fend for themselves on the streets.
Accessing services is complicated, and in most instances, impossible to those in most need of it.

The result of this deliberate policy, is the criminalising of the poor, which forces them into crime, and as a further consequence, direct confrontation with police to survive.

An egalitarian society is the answer, but sadly Western society is moving in quite the opposite direction.

Dan.

Joe

Yes, cultural dislike can also apply to traits in anglo-celtic people, as i experienced when young on a minor sale as a southern European, although i would say that the anglo-celtic influenced countries have proven to be the most accepting countries in terms of diverse immigration inflows.
'
Lego, is there a difference between race and culture?

I think there is. There are plenty of immigrants that blend in and move away from their past cultural norms.

Interesting subject, might have a go at researching such an issue.