Quote from sublime-scalper:
...Homicide is the number one cause of death in young Black males aged 10 to 25; It's AIDS for the males aged 25 to 45...
I remember someone posted this website link elsewhere about a discussion of comparing AIDS & HIV statistics by race and ethnicity.
http://www.avert.org/usastatr.htm
I think the debate was that blacks were more likely to get HIV infections.
Someone than explained that whites are more likely to get HIV infections via homosexual activities.
Blacks are more likely to get it via drug use or heterosexual activities.
There's were other links to statistics but I can't remember the name of the discussion forum where I saw it at.
Another stats posted elsewhere about drug use in Seattle...
Whites are more likely to use drugs while at the same time take more precautions not to get infections et cetera.
Basically more whites are using drugs while blacks are more likely to get arrested and become a casuality of the drug use.
Blacks are more likely to get longer prison terms for the same crimes that whites commit.
Whites are more likely to commit "white collar" crimes than blacks.
I do remember once in my high school some students did some statistical work to explore sterotyping.
Blacks were seen as more problematic.
However, whites used drugs more often while blacks were caught more often.
Hispanics had more unprotected sex.
Black students were more likely to get into physical fights while white students were more likely to write threatening letters to other students.
There was a lot of other stats but the one I remember the most was that blacks were more likely to report a hate crime against other cultures including hate crimes against whites.
This leads me into my next comments.
While in college (at a big ten school) I witness a hate crime amongst some friends at a party.
When the police showed up...most of the whites denied seeing anything even though most of them were encouraging the fight by cheering.
Yet, most of the blacks told the police exactly what they saw...
A black guy beating a white guy and yelling racial slurs.
Do blacks have more fear of the police than whites?
If I don't say anything I will be harassed or arrested.
Do whites have more fear of blacks?
If I say anything they are going to get me.
I think we just have a generation (going back two generations) where
all ethnic groups in the United States are developing some serious internal problems.
To pretend its a black thing only or to pretend there's not a problem in the black community...
All are equally guilty.
Mark