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If you're white, you're right : Comments
By Stephen Hagan, published 25/5/2006Not a lot has changed over the last one hundred years: racism still persists in Australian society.
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Smart people in Western societies are usually upwardly mobile while dumb ones usually go in the other direction or else they never get out of the disadvantaged class. The differences in attitudes, values and behaviours in people from rich and poor areas can be profound. Nobody with any brains at all in the city of Sydney would want to live in a welfare dependent suburb like Claymore, which is notorious for its high levels of serious criminal behaviour. The inhabitants of Claymore are not noted for their academic success, high IQ’s or pro social values.
Your claim that whites have the highest homicide rate is complete and utter BS. Washington DC is a city which is almost 100% black (the whites fled long ago) where the crime and homicide rate got so out of control that in 1993, the mayor (Sharon Kelly) asked President Clinton to mobilise the US National Guard because the Washington Police had lost control of the streets. Chicago USA (80% black) has the highest murder rate in the USA. Black women in the USA are 7 times more likely to be murdered by their spouses than their black sisters. Here in Australia, there are 1278 prisoners in jail for murder, 198 of them are aboriginal (15.5%), even though “aboriginal” people are only 4-5% of the population, and aboriginal men are far less likely to be charged with murder if they bash their wife to death. One judge recently gave an aboriginal man a month in jail for anally raping a 14 year old girl. He accepted as a mitigating circumstance that such behaviour was condoned by aboriginal culture.
You say that you are smarter than your white student peers and I accept that you are telling the truth. I do not deny that some black people are smart. One only has to look at Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell to see that. But the proportion of smart people to dumb people does not seem to me to be equal in all races, cultures or ethnicities.