Would you agree that more black people in a community equals more crime?

Question

Before you jump on me, I am half-black and proud. However, my family does joke all the time that "black people always bring down everywhere they go." I have visited Australia, a place with little to no blacks, and it was the most amazingly safe place I have ever been. Compare that to the Caribbean or America, where most people wouldn't dream of leaving their doors unlocked. In Australia, I once stayed in the richest house of one community, and never had to lock it whenever I left. No one ever touched it. I was always safe walking anywhere.

Ignoring the PC bullcrap, would you agree more black people does seem to equal more crime? I think the equation is true...and I hate to admit it.

Answer 1

Speaking as a black male (both mom and dad black) I hate to agree with you on this but its a fact...A large part of the problem is poverty. We as a race per capita have the biggest poverty level in the country...I to have been to Australia, as well as London. Paris and Amsterdam..Crimes committed in those countries are very slim, and when commited unfortunatly people of color make up the majority

We need more positve black role models/community leaders..We Idolize the guy with the tightest whip or the best jumpshot, and ignore the hard working firefighters, & servicemen who come from our innercities....

Answer 2

No, I don't think that more black people in a community equals more crime. I went to Germany last summer, and like your experience with Australia, I noticed that people leave their doors unlocked, and the crime was almost nonexistent. I think the problem is that some people in this country, regardless of race, think that things are owed to them. People do not teach their kids respect, and then those kids grow up without limits and without any care for what is right and what is wrong.

Answer 3

I live in Philadelphia. One of the largest city's in America. And any middle America person who's says that's just racism has never felt the effects. My neighborhood has become mostly black over the last 5 years and has become more dangerous by the day. The only argument i can make in their defense is its a poor thing and not a black thing. But there are poor white neighborhoods in the city, and although i wouldn't leave my door unlocked they are nothing like north Philly. North Philly is all black and poor. and i think you would be safer on the Gaza strip.

Answer 4

I think it has less to do with race than with poverty in general.

Anytime you have a group of haves and have nots, the have nots are going to want what the haves have. Most will try to work for it in an honest manner, and some will become so desperate and frustrated by the perceived unfairness and imbalance that they will try to take it by force. Especially if they see the haves getting more and more and more with seemingly little effort.

I live in a primarily caucasian town with very few minorities and there is no way I would leave my doors or vehicle unlocked.

Answer 5

Your family isn't joking: black people are their own worst enemy.

Any metro-urban (and rural-urban) neighborhoods heavily populated by blacks sparks a powderkeg of black on black crime.

And it's NOT just limited to American shores, but pretty much everywhere.

Historically, it's been just over a 100 years since blacks emerged from their oppressive lifestyles; the epicenter damage has yet to fully heal (it's anticipated future generations will get better).

But alas, just as white racial hatred is passed, so is black racial hatred--which runs very very deep. So deep is the latter hatred, that it's theorized that urban poverty itself is a mental dysfunctional disorder.

Answer 6

Stereotypes are myth to a certain point. If you believe that, you can basically full fill your own predictions.
There are a lot of those ideas being perpetuated each day by media, society and people's own culture, you said it yourself.
If you look around for a penny on the ground or a four leaf clover, you'll find it. Understand half black man.

Answer 7

More people equals more crime....not more black people. The countries you have describes have very different cultures, that is why there is such a lack of crime. There is more crime in the US than in the rest of the world combined, and less than 20 % of the US population is black. Are you telling me that that percentage is responsible for all of this crime?

Answer 8

I am from Africa and I must admit violence and "crime" in all its different forms is inherent in the African cultures. It was only when I studied in London that I really was faced with the unfortunate reality that we blacks are a 1000yrs behind, I wish Africa would come to grips with this fact and accept the guidance of the world .As it is now, it is the blind leading the blind. Unfortunately not all men are created equal.

Answer 9

I agree with intel-knight. Crime does not equal black people , but poor people. In a social welfare class I took once we were told that the most crime happens in places were people are in poverty. And places close to where people in poverty live.Black people are not the only poor people in world there are many poor white people, as well as Asian and Hispanic. So that means black people are not the only people committing crimes.

Answer 10

I don't think that it is necessarily the fact that they are black that brings the crime. I think that poor people engage in more crime and a lot of poor people happen to be black.

My old neighborhood was 50% black, but upper-middle class and it was very safe (as safe as it was before the black people moved in).