Blacks are More Racist Than Whites

My opponent should address racism more broadly. Ninja is only looking at racism of blacks against whites, and vice versa (and reaching the wrong conclusion). Ninja cannot say that one group is more racist than the other without comparing both groups racism towards other groups (such as Latinos, Native Americans, (East) Indians, Asians, etc). Now I shall address my opponents arguments. Violent crime, or even crime in general is not an indicator of racism. My opponent attempts to dice data from his source, incorrectly stating that were only 1,689 white on black hate crimes, while saying that there were 1,916,380 cases of black on white hate crimes. In reality, it is 1,916,380 black on white crimes (the site does not provide how many black on white hat crimes there are), against 1,689 white on black hate crimes. The difference is the word hate, because the majority of crimes are not hate crimes. The overall crime comparison is 1,916,380 to 362, 784 crimes. That means that six times as many whites are victims of regular crimes. However, as the Census of 2000 shows us (http://www.census.gov...), there are 6 times as many whites as there are blacks, so it would make sense that more whites are victims (as there are more of them). This only proves that crimes are equal. I also seriously question the validity of my opponent's source, for instance, the statistics provided are based on "race of victims, and perceived race of offender." That is a red light, showing us that this information could have serious inaccuracies. Second, this site, or at least its writer appears to be quite racist, and should not be a trusted source. For instance, at the bottom of the site... "John is white. He is married with two children. He wears a blue collar when he leaves his shabby, inner-city house to go to work. Life has been a struggle for John, but now he faces his most difficult challenge. John's neighborhood is turning black. [...] In a 50 percent black neighborhood, there is a 37 chance that John's family will in some way be violently victimized. As the neighborhood relentlessly turns black, some whites will have to be among the last to leave. If John is unfortunate enough to be one them, he will face the following statistics: When the neighborhood is 90 percent black, John and his family will have a 96 percent chance of being victimized. Soon after that victimization will become a virtual certainty, reaching 99 percent likely when the neighborhood turns 93 percent black." Regardless of whether you, as a voter, see that this quote relies on accurate information, which the site itself does not source, it ultimately sounds very racist. John is characterized as the hero, working ahrd, and soon to be victim of black crime. Blacks are portrayed as aggressive invaders, ready to sweep into the neighborhood and destroy John's life. The very tone of this indicates great racism. The site makes no effort towards neutrality, and should be disregarded. Ninja is currently using inter-racial crime as a means of measuring racism, however crime is caused more often by poverty/economic problems/drugs/insanity than by racism. Even Ninja's questionable source proves this, because the only a tiny minority of all crimes were hate crimes. Crime is not a good way to measure racism, it leaves out other more subtle (and more frequent) types of racism. Ninja should provide a better means for measuring racism. Finally, I stand by my earlier point that we cannot measure racism of one group against another. Attacking someone just because of their race, and thinking of a racist word when someone passes you are both examples of racism, and it is difficult to measure what is more racist. As well, the affirmative only attempts to provide means for measuring violent racism, while much racism is not violent, but rather expressed through words or even thoughts. There is no way of measuring these kinds of racism, and so we cannot come to a conclusion as to whether one group is more racist than another group. Ninja has not addressed this at all, so apparently Ninja agrees. Ultimately, Ninja must provide a good way of measuring racism, and must prove that the overall racism of blacks is greater than the overall racism of whites. If Ninja cannot do this, there is no reason to vote for him/her. Ninja is yet to do either of these.