Re: Is white racism nec. all bad?

Donald Edwards (warrl@blarg.com)
12 Apr 1995 06:31:53 -0700

Paul Bernhardt (pb1487@u.cc.utah.edu) wrote:

": 2) the statistics of the judicial system: blacks are arrested and convicted
": at higher rates than other US subpopulations.

"Blacks are arrested and convicted at higher rates, true. Blacks have
"generally lower economic resources.

In general, stores in predominantly-black areas have more of a
problem with theft than stores in predominantly-white areas.

My personal opinion is that it isn't race per se that makes the
difference (I would say that most likely, stores in areas where
most of the people live on "entitlements" have more of a problem
with theft than stores in areas where most of the people work),
but the factual correlation with race exists.