ForumsWEPRDoes racism have some truth to it?

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gigmyster
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I think it does but not in a lot of cases. What do you think?

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holt24
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Heres some statistics


Heres some english staitistics

Heres some more

Someone give some evedince to go against this.

samy
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Someone give some evedince to go against this.


I can't find the study right now but they're shown that the blacker your skin tone and the wider your nose the more likely it is that you will be convicted of a crime.
gigmyster
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I can't find the study right now but they're shown that the blacker your skin tone and the wider your nose the more likely it is that you will be convicted of a crime.

lol. somehow i dont think thats true. but here is a 100% true fact: anybody can say anything they want on the internet and its not always true.
holt24
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I can't find the study right now but they're shown that the blacker your skin tone and the wider your nose the more likely it is that you will be convicted of a crime.


Okay but what are the reasons for this? I have faith in our judicial system and I believe that most people who go to prison probably should have gone to prison. So why are there so many minorities in our prisons.
Hypermnestra
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Holt, 2 of your links are the exact same thing(EXACT) and another is just a Yahoo Answers question with some links on it. Not exactly the best argument in the world...

samy
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holt24
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lol. somehow i dont think thats true. but here is a 100% true fact: anybody can say anything they want on the internet and its not always true.
Are you talking about the stuff I showed. Maybe some of it isn't true but many of these were done by the government.


Holt, 2 of your links are the exact same thing(EXACT) and another is just a Yahoo Answers question with some links on it. Not exactly the best argument in the world...


Yeah sory about that I screwed up on the links.
samy
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So why are there so many minorities in our prisons.


Racism. It's not that hard of a concept, whites make up juries, they have prejudices, the black is convicted.
holt24
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Thanks samy but why are so many minorities arrested in the first place?

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http://blog.manu-bd.info/images/Monstres/MiGeek-MiOtaku.jpg

Geek.

I dont hate black people. Just the ones on welfare....o wait....

samy
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Thanks samy but why are so many minorities arrested in the first place?


Intelligent racism.

I'm not going to canvas a rich upscale neighborhood (we can expect this to contain more whites, Asians, Indians, etc.) when I can canvas a lower-class ghetto or slum (we can expect more black, Hispanics, etc.)
holt24
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Racism. It's not that hard of a concept, whites make up juries, they have prejudices, the black is convicted.


There are not enough racists in America to make that big a difference and aren't the lawers supposed to make sure biased people don't get on the jury.
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I'm not going to canvas a rich upscale neighborhood (we can expect this to contain more whites, Asians, Indians, etc.) when I can canvas a lower-class ghetto or slum (we can expect more black, Hispanics, etc.)



so the reason i'm upper middle class is cause i'm white but the reason i'm not rich is cause i'm also half mexican?
samy
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There are not enough racists in America to make that big a difference and aren't the lawers supposed to make sure biased people don't get on the jury.


Subconscious racism them. I'll freely admit that I would be more likely to convict someone who looked lower class of a crime than I would be someone who looked upper class. This hold true for a large amount of people. This isn't something that you may even realize is happening but it does happen.
holt24
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so the reason i'm upper middle class is cause i'm white but the reason i'm not rich is cause i'm also half mexican?


Makes sense to me. LOL
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