[Carl Childress]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GarthB
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Carl Childress

Originally posted by GarthB

Garth: A simple Google search reveals:

2. Studies conducted in East Harlem, NY, reported 33% of crack users to be female; 91% of the population using cocaine were African American or Hispanic. (Medicine.com)

That bears repeating 91 of THOSE USING COCAINE...not, 91% of the population uses cocaine. By the way, Spokaen is 94% Caucasion.

And, I believe, (I'm too busy with class to look it up right now) I said that the poster appeared racist. Based on what I have said above, I stand by that.

Garth:

Now I think you'll admit you're over-reacting, finding racism where none existed. PWL's entire post heads this message: The "moon" he's referring to is my derrière; he's assuming that with age, one's butt cracks. I'm told that's not true of mine. (grin)

Yes, nobody thought I implied that 91% of the population of East Harlem smoked crack cocaine. But, let's extrapolate here:

On December 31, 2004, there were 2,135,901 prisoners in state and federal penitentiaries. Of those, 21% were drug related; that's more than 400,000 druggies.

Here's are some other facts: At year end 2004 there were 3,218 black male sentenced prison inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,220 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 463 white male inmates per 100,000 white males. (Prison Census)

Blacks make up 12.1 percent of our population; hispanics, 12.5. (US Census Bureau)

But of the two million prisoners, roughly 50% are black. (Manning Marable, Professor of History and Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University.)

We all know the myriad reasons for the high concentration of blacks in prison; i.e., ease of conviction, poverty, despair, joblessness. We also know that the vast majority of crimes by blacks are committeed against blacks. There's no need for whites to arm themselves against African-Americans.

All I'm saying is: Extrapolation from every statistic I can find,

there's a lot crack in Harlem.

Also: PWL may be racist. But one can't tell from what he said.

At a Martin Luther King memorial service recently, a black professor wanted to show that everyone in the United States is racist in one way or another.

Paraphrasing: Imagine you're a white person walking alone in the inner city after midnight. You see approaching you a band of five blacks dressed in hip/hop style. What goes through your mind?

Now, imagine you're a black person and the same thing happens to you.

I'll tell you what went through my mind:

a. I don't have any business out alone after midnight in a big city, regardless of what color I am.

b. The same fear that would cross my mind (white/blacks approaching) is the same fear I would feel if five whites, hip/hop guys were showing up. That's because:

c. People out that late are up to no good, regardless of their race. And if that's so...

d. What store was I headed to burgle?

I think, pending more evidence, you've misjudged PWL.

See, he was making a crack (pun intended) about me. I'm the one who should be p1ssed. (grin)