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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4917369" data-attributes="member: 66082">This is the kind of irrational passionate response I get, when I just say crime has nothing to do with skin color, and that many Americans do believe that crime committed by individual black people is because of some collective black racial trait and that&#039;s why they keep connecting crime to the black race.And I get screeds about thorw more money at it and that hasn&#039;t worked.&nbsp; And how growing up poor in the Appalachia he never stole anything or killed anyone and being happy with where he was and being happy that someone did well.But of course the vast overwhelming majority of black people aren&#039;t criminals, don&#039;t steal, certianly aren&#039;t murderers, so what is this poster&#039;s point?In his mind black people are connected to crime and so when he compares himself growing up in Appalachia and his values against crime, he is contrasting those values with this imagined black race that believes they are oppressed and therefore they can committ crime.&nbsp; It is pure anti-black racist nonsense, but it makes sense to a lot of Americans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4917369, member: 66082"] This is the kind of irrational passionate response I get, when I just say crime has nothing to do with skin color, and that many Americans do believe that crime committed by individual black people is because of some collective black racial trait and that's why they keep connecting crime to the black race. And I get screeds about thorw more money at it and that hasn't worked. And how growing up poor in the Appalachia he never stole anything or killed anyone and being happy with where he was and being happy that someone did well. But of course the vast overwhelming majority of black people aren't criminals, don't steal, certianly aren't murderers, so what is this poster's point? In his mind black people are connected to crime and so when he compares himself growing up in Appalachia and his values against crime, he is contrasting those values with this imagined black race that believes they are oppressed and therefore they can committ crime. It is pure anti-black racist nonsense, but it makes sense to a lot of Americans. [/QUOTE]

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