DrRob-
"We are all americans, wheather you got here with the Mayflower or you got your citizenship yesterday"
Being American is a mentality. Doesn't matter how long you have been in America, and actually it does not even matter if you are even in America in some cases. People are welcome to come here and be Americans at any time.
"It pains me to see post like well when i was 16 i was held at knife point by this BLUE man, or my girlfriend was assaulted by a PURPLE guy... what the HELL does the color of his skin have to do with the fact that a crime was commited??? "
How many times you been stabbed? How many times you been carjacked? How many times you been mugged? Okay, then shut the hell up until you have been there. Ask a woman who was raped by any race of person or any person with a certain characteristic and she will tell you that from that day on she fears that type of person. Ask someone that has been accosted by tattoed bikers a few times, and ask them if they get nervous around bikers with tattoos? If you have been through violent crimes by a certain type of person, especially in repeated incidents, trust me, the next time you are in a similar situation, your heart will jump and you will sweat. That is human nature. You learn from your past experiences, and some things leave enough of an impression on you that you live with them for the rest of your life whether you want to or not.
Your theory that most crime is black on black is nice, but most statistics are contrived, and that one may not account for every variable: maybe it is simply because non-blacks are smart enough to stay out of black neighborhoods. (Oops, did I say that? That was very un-PC!). Okay, let me say that in a more PC way: Maybe it is because, as I described before, people tend to stay within their own cultural neighborhood. Of course most crime stays in that neighborhood, often against their own culture, simply because people of their own culture are the nearest targets.
My experience has been pretty simple: How come I have lived in white neighborhoods all my life, some of them very bad, and I have *never* been the victim of a violent crime from a white person? Set foot in a nearby black neighborhood once in a while, and I have had plenty. Sorry, that's just the facts from what I have experienced, and no one can have experiences like that and not let it affect them.
Don't get me wrong, as I am sure you will, I don't think that all black people are criminals by any means. But, the kind that dress like street thugs make me nervous, because they fit the description of the kind that I have been accosted by before. I don't think that will ever change because it has been engrained into me by experience.
To answer your last rant, cultural diversity is great in it's own right, but let's not forget that this is America. We have a culture too. Some people want to move here and take a peice of the pie, but without any intent of becoming an American or giving back to the country. Everyone comes here and wants to make this country like their old one. Many of them come here with the intent to make a few bucks, or get a good education, and then go back to their country. They have no intent on being Americans. This is America, love it or leave it.
And I, might add, NO ONE said that having "little mexico" down the street is necessarily a bad thing. You are so quick to jump on your self-righteous soap box that you immediatly assumed the worst in what I said. Re-read it, no one said it was bad. All I said was that is was a fact that people segregate themselves, no matter how much we all pretend like America is a great mix of cultures, it is not, it is a heterogeneous mottling, like water spots on oil, of different cultures claiming their own little areas and staying within those bounds whenever possible. Once again, I never said whether this was good or bad. All I said was that it is a fact that people like to stick to their own races and cultures, and that the myths of everyone living together in harmony is not happening, and none of these people want it to happen, and such thing only exists in politicians speeches. That is reality.
You are so pumped up on your self-righteous liberal views and so bent on shoving them down my throat, that you didn't even read what I said, you just assumed immedailty that I am a racist bigot. Typical. That is exactly why I stated that I would probably be branded just for bringing up the topic, even though I didn't even express views, just stated some observations.
I am glad that we can have candid conversation, but you need to read things for what they say, not what you think they are saying.
I will agree with one thing you said though, and that is that poverty makes for high crime rates. I do not understand nor follow such a path though, because I am well below the levels of poverty right now on the charts and came from a poor background. But, libraries are free, schools are free, community college is practically free, buses run for people that don't have cars, and this is America where jobs are available for those that work. So, while there is no doubt that poverty is linked to crime, I do not allow anyone to use that as an excuse, because I am pulling myself out of the muck, and I expect no less of anyone else than I do of myself.
Lastly, not only does America offer more opportunity to a poor person than any other country in the world (with a litttle effort, anyone can make a very decent income), but our poorest people are the richest poor people anywhere in the world. Our people in poverty live like royalty compared to some countries. Life just ain't that bad in America, no matter how much people whine and use their "situation" as an excuse to commit crime.
Mrs. sbryce:
How could anyone disagree with you? Our daily lives in America are living proof to anyone that looks around.
