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Racial Microagressions

#541
1958Bassman said:
Your last paragraph does hit a good point- when someone from the government (or Jesse Jackson, etc) steps up to someone who was a victim of some offense that may not have had anything to do with racism and makes a lot of noise about "Are you gonna let that White person do that to you?", it's hard to see an end to it. If they would let people get on with life, it would probably turn around fairly quickly. Taking from one to give to others and then taking more because governments can't stop finding ways to spend money is unsustainable- at some point and if it's allowed to happen, we'll be buying everything from the government and they'll dole out everything they decide we need.
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An end would come with role reversal. But do we really want to get to that point?
 
#543
Vintagefiend said:
I would certainly hope so - whites are like over 70% of the American population, while blacks are 13%, lol.

which makes that statistic useless, btw...

nice try at deflection.
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Those percentages are for the whole country but in some cities, like Milwaukee, they're not even close to accurate. From Wiki, the entry for Milwaukee shows "According to the 2010 Census, 44.8% of the population was White (37.0% non-Hispanic white), 40.0% was Black or African American, 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.5% Asian, 3.4% from two or more races. 17.3% of Milwaukee's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race)".
 
#545
1958Bassman said:
Those percentages are for the whole country but in some cities, like Milwaukee, they're not even close to accurate. From Wiki, the entry for Milwaukee shows "According to the 2010 Census, 44.8% of the population was White (37.0% non-Hispanic white), 40.0% was Black or African American, 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.5% Asian, 3.4% from two or more races. 17.3% of Milwaukee's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race)".
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I can't seem to find any homicide stats with a racial breakdown for Milwaukee.
 

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