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What?

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You keep touting that as if it were proven fact. It is not. Like Huffington Post or not, they make very solid points on the subject in the article below. Solid enough to put that claim in much doubt, or more.

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That is a horrible article. It is proof of absolutely nothing and doesn’t even touch violent crime.

Nobody is going to prison for simple use of weed and haven’t for years.

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I have yet to see anything better backing up the claim I took issue with except from FAR right websites with questionable histories.

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Backing up? The FBI numbers are the numbers. They don’t need “backing up” unless one doesn’t believe those black men aren’t really in prison or didn’t really commit those crimes.

The only thing that needs “backing up” is any claim that it is for any reason other than that they commit crimes at a higher rate.

And that article doesn’t come close to that.

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African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated,” the researchers write. “They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in ‘group exonerations.’”

Overall, the study paints a very clear picture: Black people are disadvantaged within the criminal justice system, leading to massive disparities even among those who are entirely innocent.

“The causes we have identified run from inevitable consequences of patterns in crime and punishment to deliberate acts of racism, with many stops in between,” the authors conclude. “They differ sharply from one type of crime to another.”

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The urban environment alone in the Huffpost article is one factor that can skew the FBI numbers. Feel free to discount it, but you are wrong to do so.

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And the FBI victim reports that show mainly black victims saying the crime against them was committed by a black man?

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But yet you used a far left website with questionable history.

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Their standards are much better than the right credits them for. They readily offer their left wing opinions, but offer a lot of solid facts to base their opinions on. One can come to different conclusions on the same set of facts, but facts are facts nonetheless. It’s a fact for example, that a ■■■■ ton of blacks live in cramped urban environments. Because of that they posit that they get arrested more for crimes that people might get away with in less crowded areas that don’t have a heavy police presence like urban areas do. We got away with all kinds of crazy ■■■■ cuz we lived in the country, so it rings true for me. And that is only one factor of many that can skew the FBI stats.

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Another example from that article. Blacks smoke weed at about the same rate as whites yet are arrested for it at 3-1/2 times the rate as whites. So I get told c’mon, blacks aren’t going to prison for weed anymore. That’s not the ■■■■■■■ point! The numbers are skewed by a myriad of factors.

I don’t discount the notion that blacks might actually commit more crimes, growing up in a ■■■■■■■■ neighborhood tends to have that effect. But seven times the rate of violent felonies? I call BS.

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Take it up with their mostly black victims who reported they were victimized by a black man.

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Irrelevant to a single thing I said.

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Sorry…they have agenda. Just because they’re better at delivery it doesn’t make em less bias.

Here is interesting bit of information, I have to leave in a bit but it says Blacks have higher percent of marijuana disorder while Whites and Hispanics have alcohol disorder.

But when it comes to Alcohol and marijuana disorder blacks have higher percentage.

I’ll read up on this later when I have more time.

Here is newer more updated version of that study 5 years later.

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Disorders are not important to my points I don’t think. There are different things that different races are susceptible to.

From the second article however.

For example, Blacks in the US are about four times more likely than non-Hispanic whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, especially in large metropolitan areas, despite comparable rates of marijuana use

So apparently, using Wild Rose’s criteria, four times as many blacks smoke marijuana because they are arrested at four times the rate as whites.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/once-distinct-by-race-and-class-cities-are-fragmenting

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No it isn’t. It contradicts your claim.

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If…all males were celebrating “father’s day” with those that they brought into the world, there wouldn’t be any claims this very day…of racism.

Now put that in your bong…and smoke it. :sunglasses:

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Since you refuse to answer, we’ll have to make an assumption to move along.

I’m going to assume no, you don’t dislike me because I’m white. Why? Because that would make you a bad person and me a victim. I don’t believe you are a bad person. I don’t believe that you would dislike a person based on their race. I just don’t.

Yet you seem to have no problem believing I would.

Why is that?

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I don’t know you personally. So no, I don’t think you dislike people because they are black.

I just think your stance of culture over color is garbage.