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At some level, I agree. I'm not advocating for "let's fix things for black people" and forget about everything else. More than anything, this thread is trying to elaborate on why relations between African Americans and police have been and currently are so high, and what could be done to improve that problem. Ideally, the solution would benefit all races, not just blacks.

With that said, I feel the need to address the bolded, because the way you've phrased it is just misleading. Yes, there are more white people in poverty in the US. There are also far more white people living in the US in general. We would expect a demographic that makes up 62% of the country's population to have the most poor people, the most rich people, and the most middle class people. It's simply by virtue of being the biggest population. Only 9.9% of whites live in poverty, however, compared to 26.6% of Hispanics and 27.8% of blacks. Poverty affects minorities far more disproportionately than it does whites.

First of all, why would you say that? That is not how a civilized and functional society with proper judicial system should work. 

Then, he didn't mention white police officers. One of the biggest case of police brutality involves mostly black police officers that killed a handcuffed black guy inside of a police van.

And this issue is blown out of proportion by the news selling media.

People protest for the cops to stop murdering UNARMED people; it doesn't matter their past, if they didn't pull a gun or a blade to attack, they shouldn't be put down solely on the premise of "I feared for my life".

This is STILL completely missing the mark. This literally dates back hundreds of years. 200 years of slavery, and segregation only JUST ended 50 years ago.

I know you're young. And 50 years seems like the distant past. But some people remember the KKK hanging black people from trees and burning down black churches. And JUST BECAUSE SEGREGATION ENDED DOESN'T MEAN THAT RACISM JUST DISAPPEARED!

I know this may seem crazy, but the ONLY way to truly fight this is admitting that racism still exists. We can't keep saying "oh those damn black people. They just keep complaining". Well, believe it or not, they're complaining for a reason...and we keep ignoring them.

We have to stop and educate people. We need to treat each other justly. We can't keep assuming that pro-BLM means ANTI-cop! People are pissed because civilians are straight up getting murdered by cops, and no one is batting an eye. We're all equals. We need to act like it.

The opposite of love is indifference. Not hate.

Look, I despise the far right and left 

All I truly desire to see is everyone have a chance in life and not be attacked for whoever they are.

Unfortunately, people are close minded. Nowadays people paint everything as black and white. No one realizes that, hey, we all make mistakes and can all improve our behaviour with people.

Is it okay to commit violence because you have less money? Is that a valid excuse? Discuz.

Education assistence in the inner city schools have been debated to death and nothing improved.

Some of the schools here are worse than 3rd world public schools in term of pedagogy. Kids are not properly taught and schools are under funded.

Also, one thing that people forget, we are more divided than people think. As a nation, black people have less than 40 years of independence.  A community rarely thrives in its infancy. Also, black community still relies on white community to succeed. Black people couldn't vote before 1960's, it was virtually impossible to get mortgage/ bank loans and higher education wasn't a reality for most of the community back then. What's the inheritance the generation after civil rights got? More poverty and frustration.

Progress is a slow process and America will only gain if we get past these petty race wars. 

Misleading?  It's not misleading, it's a fact.  In absolutely no way did I suggest that the percentages were higher or equal; in fact, I said "when you're on the bottom, you don't give a damn about percentages."  You're going to have to explain to me how anything I said was misleading.

Seriously, people are people, they're not ratios, they're not percentages.  Someone in that 9.9% is every bit as important as someone in that 27.8% and vice versa.

That need to label and sort people by secondary demographics is part of the problem.  You're telling one group that they're a special case, they should get used to assistance, they should depend on it, that they need it more because of the color of their skin.  It's ultimately condescending and debilitating.  On the other hand, you're telling another group that they don't matter as much because more people with their skin color are successful.  They're the chaff, they're the acceptable margin of loss.  

Yet another layer of division that just adds to the feelings of resentment.

The goal should be to treat everyone the same, not to keep pushing in a wedge until the gulf is unspannable and you've got two sides looking at each other with suspicion and jealousy.  It should be as simple as people who need help, not people who deserve help more because of percentages.

Don't move the goalposts.

I provided that quote to show you that you had the wrong impression about my stance on the issue of white cops versus blacks being shot. I wanted to correct your prejudice of me. It's a different discussion what the exact punishment for those crimes should be, and I may or may not have meant literally what I wrote there about killing the cops on the spot and may or may not have been in a slightly agitated state when I wrote that. But by showing you those quotes I was trying to show you the tone, where I'm leaning on this issue and hoping to change your erroneus view of me. But where is your acknowledgment of that? Instead, you just take the chance to try and "win".

Yes, he meant white police officers. He didn't refer to black officers whatsoever, they exist, the evil ones too, of course they do, but they were not relevant to his argument and dont fit into his picture of selling the notion of white racism.

I'm saddened about this dishonesty in discussions. You know he meant white racist cops versus black victims. Stop playing games. I'm so disappointed in you now.

I...honestly have no idea what this is responding to. If it's my OP, then I don't think I advocated any of the things that you're arguing against. If it's to someone in the thread, then could you perhaps tag them or at least reference their post so we know what/who you're talking about?

I'll recant the misleading bit, because I misinterpreted what you were trying to say.

As for statistics, I think you misunderstand the purpose of them in my argument. No one is claiming that one person in the 9.9% is less or more important than someone in the 27.8%. Nor is it anywhere near condescending or debilitating, or to make people less than people. Quite honestly, I can't think of anyone who's used statistics to say that a group doesn't matter as much, with the possible exception of Bernie Sanders arguing that white people don't know what it's like to be poor. The point is not to argue that poor black people are more or less "important" than white people, it's about identifying what common problems are. If we're trying to figure out as a society what is causing these two groups to not get along very well (in this case, police and blacks), then statistics are a way of identifying where the issues might lie. When we find anomalies between a group and the rest of the population, that's an indicator that it might be a cause.

To my knowledge, and feel free to correct me if you have a counter example, almost no one I can think of argues that "a poor black person deserves your help more than a poor white person because he's black." I certainly haven't argued that on this thread, and I can't think of a single major organization or political pundit that would support that either.