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Originally Posted by Old School
Not sure where you're going with this one. I hate to even ask. You are boucing off the boards like a ping-pong ball. Let me bring it home for you. Unfortunately, in most black communities around America, there is "more" violence.
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There is? Wow, I guess the shooting that took place a couple weeks ago outside of a very affluent community around here was a Black community. Funny, every time I have worked games with the two schools in those districts, I did not see a single Black player in them. Better yet, there are many Black communities around here that nothing happens.
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Originally Posted by Old School
Keyword here is more. Crime is higher in black American communities. True, violence is in all communities, and in all sports, and it will never ever rid itself from sports because of the nature of the game. But for basketball, one can only hope!
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Do you have any stats that back this up? I live in the surrounding Chicago area and I hear of a lot of shootings and incidents and those communities are not in "Black" communities. As a matter of fact I worked a basketball game with a cop that is from the area where I live and told me that they do not make public a lot of crime because they do not want the publicity that their community has problems. Kind of like how college campus all over the country not reporting the number of rapes and robberies so no prospective students do not realize the safety issues at play. I grew up in a rural town and there were a lot of crime and this was by far a "Black community."
Peace