Redass or Candyass?

[GarthB]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Carl Childress

Originally posted by GarthB

Tell me, when was the last time you were in Harlem?

On what basis what do you judge the amount of crack there?

Are you as racist as you appear?

Garth: A simple Google search reveals:

1. New York is classified as an HIDTA or high intensity drug trafficking area. Of 89,323 felony arrests in Hew York City in 2003, 14,023 tested positive for crack cocaine. (Office of National Drug Control Policy)

Spokane, Washington was so listed in 2005.

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.

3. My last time in Harlem was in 1991. After a game at Yankee Stadium, we drove down Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. on our way to a meeting in mid-town Manhattan with Jim Evans, who had called the plate that night. He did a pretty good job. (grin)

My last time was in 2005. My oldest son lives near there. Bill Clinton's offices are there. You'd be surprised at the difference since 1991. The racist stereotype doesn't fit.

4. I was last in Mississippi in 1960, registering black (we called them Negroes in those days) voters for the Kennedy/Nixon presidential election. We hoped most would vote for Kennedy. Perhaps they did, but Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, a segregationist Democrat, won Mississippi's eight electoral votes.

I'm proud you were there. I was but a mere child and only beginning to understand what I was hearing of those events.

5. Facts are not racist. There is plenty of crack in Harlem. And Houston. And Los Angeles. And even Seattle.

I never said facts are racist. I attempted to imply that suppostions are racist. Assumption of facts not in evidence based on race is racist. 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.