Do black people really wonder why they're discriminated against?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
Blacks have, on average, an IQ 14.5 points below whites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime
Blacks are 5 times more likely to be incarcerated or commit murder.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm
Blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed.

Lanore - thanks a lot for proving my point by failing to grasp the English language. Furthermore, you were too lazy to hit the spell check button. Also, my sources are from Wikipedia and from the government Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Answer 1

You had to put a new header on the same question? I'll give you thumbs down and report you for repeating the same question. It would seem to me as though you have a bit of a race issue. And nobody has 'proved' you right or wrong here, so you can stop gloating and hiding behind the statistical intelligence quotient assigned to you. I can misspell things and it woudn't make an ounse of diference for or against your point I can also make each and every statement grammatically and punctually correct, with no flaw in presentation or dictation, and the same logic would apply there as well. It is my opinion that intelligence and intellect are separate beasts. And being smart is different from being intelligent.

Answer 2

It seems that you already have your mind made up about ALL Black people who come from all around the world. Most racist people are narrow minded and don't have the desire to see things any other way. I think you fit that description perfectly. IQ test aren't even used anymore and the reason that some Blacks and minority groups have lower IQ's is because Whites are more exposed to higher education. This is a all White society so of course white people are going to have a strong advantage just because of skin color did you consider that, I think not. I think you have a superiority complex about your skin color please lose that attitude it's not going to get you very far in life.

Answer 3

Yes many blacks realize that they are discriminated against in studies such as the ones you have cited. For one, the IQ studies are not even accurate, as any college introductory psychology course will tell you. Also, many of the questions on such an exam are biased towards people who are raised in educated families. Thus blacks who are raised in educated families score just as well on IQ tests as whites.

Secondly, blacks tend to have less employment opportunities. One reason is because blacks tend to grow up in less educated families (not always I'm generalizing). Thus it is much more of a challenge to excel academically. As every study on childhood education suggests, the education that a child receives in the years before a child enters the public school system is the greatest predictor of academic accomplishment.

It is known that in America many young blacks are not afforded a great education in their young childhood lives, especially before they enter the school system. Thus blacks are automatically statistically not as likely to excel in the school system, which in turn leads to less job opportunities.

Finally, all people no matter what their skin color, are more likely to commit crimes when they have less money. Then since blacks historically have not been afforded good early education, and thus lack good jobs, it is not surprising that they "may" commit more crimes on "average." But note that your statement says incarceration, which has nothing to do with how many crimes a person commits. That term just refers to the number of times that they are prosecuted for the crimes. There is evidence to suggest that blacks tend to be targeted as crime suspects. When you focus on anyone in more detail you are more likely to find a crime. Also there is evidence that blacks get prosecuted more often than whites, even when the crime ratios are the same. Thus there is evidence that the system itself is designed to achieve those statistics.

My solution is to educate everyone from an early age. Give everyone an opportunity to learn and excel. That way maybe we all will learn to understand studies, tests, and statistics. It would help everyone in our society (and across the world) and would lead to less discrimination.

So to answer your question, yes, blacks realize that they are discriminated against in the very studies that you quote.

Answer 4

That why you should pay COMPENSATION FOR SLAVERY, this is all just a set up to justify hundreds of years of discrimination and slavery, so you can provide justification for racism and maybe get the whole Nazism movement started again. What is being done to change these statistics, nothing and I suppose nothing will be done. Yeah that right, give YOURSELF A BIG PAT ON THE BACK, GET OUT THE CHAMPAGNE, HAVE A PARTY. YOUR JOBS BEEN WELL DONE, ANOTHER RACE DESTROYED, SO YOU CAN GET THE WORLD TO YOURSELF. WHO'S NEXT ON YOUR LIST MAY I ANSWER?

Answer 5

In regard to your insinuation that blacks are not as intelligent as other races consider this; public schools with a predominant number of black students are less funded than schools that are predominantly white, SATs, PSATs, and other standard tests are racially biased in their questions not to mention the fact that IQ testing produce unreliable and inaccurate results.

So, in a country where blacks are less educated (by the system, not by choice) is it any wonder that more blacks end up incarcerated or unemployed than whites?

Answer 6

I don't understand what your links are suppose to represent. Are you implying that blacks are "dumber" than whites? They cause more harm to society? If so, how do the links relate to your question? Wierd!

I feel that people who feel that they are being discriminated on by another group are people that don't have faith in others to be good, honest individuals. I honestly belive that today discrimination only exists to those that take advantage of the issue.

Answer 7

You pull up a bunch of irrelevant statistics and ask a question like that? With your intelligence, you didn't even realize you answered your own question. A mind IS a terrible thing to waste.

Answer 8

It seems you misread the part about IQ. Read further--it says that larger variations take place within families than between ethnic groups. Also, IQ is influenced by cultural values, nutrition and the amount of mental stimulation a young child gets early on.

Answer 9

Are you aware that information on wikipedia is public and can be changed by anyone? So that means those statistics could have come from a bigot like you. So what does that say about your IQ?

Thank you, have a nice day!!

Answer 10

Maybe because education is more advanced in white schools. The curriculum for the schools in the black community is made so they don't learn or know much, but how to work for capitalists- if they can get hired, keep bad credit and value material possessions.