From: frankli@seq.uncwil.edu (william carter franklin)
Subject: Re: Violent crime stats from a reliable source
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:23:24 GMT

dem@engin.umich.edu (Darryle E Merlette) writes:

>you've already made up your mind that the relatively high reports of
>crime among Blacks is due to some innate predisposition, since you've
>ruled out the possibility of environment, the history of deprivation,
>and institutionalized prejudice/racism as causal factors. 

I am saying that violence is the wrong answer to black people's
problems (if they have them).



> I was giving you the benefit of the doubt
>when I said "limited corner" -- what I meant was "limited thinking".

Yes, I like to limit my thinking to exclude the anti-white pro-black
sewage that is prevalent on soc.blah.blah.blah


>>Wilmington has many programs that revitalize black neighborhoods with
>>thousands of hours of volunteer efforts.

>Good for Wilmington.

>>Also, this year, the city passed a multi_million dollar plan to 
>>revitalize ONE of our black neighborhoods. 

>Probably targeted for gentrification no doubt.

Lovely attitude, it's a wonder that the volunteers are so cavalier
to help the underpriviledged if their attitudes are anything like yours.


>>And the police go where the crime is.
>>What is so prejudiced about that?

>Crime is everywhere. People tend to find something as ubiquitous as
>crime wherever they look. If they only look in certain places (like
>Black neighborhoods) then not only do they miss it when it occurs

They go where they get the calls from. You know, the people with 
gunshot wounds who call 911. You seem to think that the murders
occur (and the assaults) just because the police are patrolling.
That is juvenile thinking. The police go WHERE THEY ARE CALLED
DEPENDING ON EACH INCIDENT. Read my stats on Wilmington and see
that in 1991 and 1990 most of the violence was perpetrated by Black
people. So I posted here on soc.blah.blah.blah because I think 
YOU PEOPLE should get a grip and be more responsible.


>elsewhere (like white neighborhoods), they begin to believe that it
>only occurs where they've been looking. It's a self-reinforcing 
>practice. The police overwhelmingly target Black individuals and
>Black neighborhoods and that's what's so prejudiced. In fact, the



WHAAAAA whaa blame blame blame. You just splashed in well water.



>whole law enforcement system from apprehension to conviction to
>sentencing suffers from institutionalized racism -- this fact is
>well documented with respect to sentencing. In particular, several
>studies from the 1940's to the present have shown that punishments
>from most severe to least severe occur in the following sequence:
>Blacks killing whites, whites killing whites, Blacks killing Blacks,
>whites killing Blacks.


Where are your stats? Where are your sources? I wonder if your rating
order is valid. Back up your statements with stats AND, now that 
soc.blah.blah.blah has become a KINDER TOUGHER newsgroup, lets see
those SOURCES too.


>"...the colonists certainly seemed to take other sex scandals in
>stride. William Franklin, for example, had become governor of New
>Jersey despite that fact that he was an illegitimate child. His
>father, the immortal Benjamin Franklin, politically survived many
>such scandals..." Shelly Ross, _Fall From Grace_, pg. 7

Tanya Tucker, who sang at the Republican (liars) Convention is an
unwed mother of two. HEEHeee :)

This brings me back to all of the reports I did on my family history.
I am so proud of the Franklins. Especially Aretha.