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"Gary James" <cnjames@homemail.com> wrote in message
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| Lady Galadriel wrote:
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| > Why did Gary James say in git.general:
| > ) Well, it does seem that certain people are more prone to violence than
| > ) others.  I would say among the British it would be Irish.  And among
| > ) Americans it appears to be Africans.
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| > (snicker)
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| > Now look at what those two groups have in common, shall we?  In the US,
| > African American Black People of Color have been traditionally supressed,
| > condescended to, assumed to be less intelligent, victims of prejudice, and
| > generally treated unfairly.  More recently some people have been working
| > on that, but there are still large segments of the population who believe
| > the stereotypes and act accordingly.
| >
| > In the UK/Ireland...there is hate, general religious difference/enmity,
| > suppression, prejudice... Gee.  It seems to me that a group of people who
| > are suppressed might get violent.  Some of them anyway.  Some of them
| > might try peaceful protest, but without a STRONG, visible leader, you
| > don't get much of anywhere.
| >
| > So fuck you, sideways, with a rusty chainsaw, with acid
| > dispensers.  Believing and propagating a stereotype (that any particular
| > group of people is worlwide likely to be "more violent" than any
| > other) is one of the most revolting concepts.
| >
| > -gzb
| > --
| >         "If you don't mind my expressin' my feelin's, Mr. Scott, I'll make
| > free to say that you're seventeen kinds of a fool an' all of 'em
| > different, and then some."
| >                                 -from Jack London's _White_Fang_
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| With all due respect, blacks committed 53.4 % of murders in US in 1998.
| Being they represent about 12 % of the population I think this figure
| cannot be ignored except by the more ignorant.    And those who prefer
| Political Correctness to truth,   which I realize appears to be a small
| amjority.   But their ranks are dwindling.
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| http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004896.html

That table does not  show that 53.4% of murders were committed by blacks in
1998. It shows that 53.4% of arrests (not convictions) for murder in 1998 were
of black suspects, it also does not quote a figure for the percentage of
murders where no one was arrested.

| And here is how the murders were committed in 1998.
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| http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778269.html
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| GJ