Originally Posted by Wow Civic
For those who don't understand; whites died at a higher percentage per person than blacks.
No they didn't. What you really mean here is that the percentage of whites that died is disproportionate to the number of whites in the affected population.
Originally Posted by Wow Civic
It is funny how the paranoid state of mind that many African Americans have that the "government is out to get them, the HIV virus was created to kill black people, and the government did not respond to Hurricane Katrina because New Orleans is a black city." It's a bullshit paranoid state of mind to live with and I do not understand why some blacks feel the need to pull out the race card so often.
Why did you use quotation marks? Are you actually quoting someone here, or is this just what you think goes on inside the minds of black people?
Originally Posted by Wow Civic
The government's helpful hand to blacks is so evident that if you cannot see it, you're blind. Affirmative Action, which violates federal law by accepting alumni based on race, helps blacks out by setting a quota on the amount of black students it MUST acquire. This does not help out someone like me, a white male, who tries hard in school maintaining his 3.6 GPA while watching crowds of African Americans with 2.9 GPAs make it into their college of choice.
Not only does the government introduce Affirmative Action, but the whole set of Hate Crime laws? Purposely established to defend blacks? The statistics I found to back this: The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that in 1999, there were about 657,008 black-on-white crimes of violence, as compared to some 91,051 of the white-on-black variety. Yet although black-perpetrated interracial crimes outnumbered white-perpetrated interracial crimes by a ratio of about 7.2 to 1, the official hate-crime statistics showed white offenders outnumbering black offenders by a 4 to 1 margin. Put another way, about 1 out of every 45 white-on-black attacks is classified as a hate crime, while the corresponding fraction for black-on-white attacks is an astounding 1 out of 1,254. Alarming. Is it possible our judicial system and our Board of Education has a racial bias against whites? The reverse discrimination in this country seems more prevalent than ever before.
P.S. Please do not resort to any "yourrr racizt!!" retorts. I am not racist. I am simply pointing out some alarming facts that I feel need to be addressed.
Your definition of an "alarming fact" is bizarre. Even more bizarre is that you and I agree on hate crimes legislation and on affirmative action, although surely for different reasons.
President Lyndon Johnson, in a speech he gave in 1965, said "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line in a race and then say, 'you are free to compete with all the others', and still justly believe that you have been completely fair."
I think he was right. There was a time in America when affirmative action policies were right and just, but that time has passed. The struggle for equality continues, but at this point the government and society have fulfilled their obligation to make possibly racial and social equality. At this point, only individuals can bring themselves to equality by earning it.
What I mean by that is that education admissions quotas are unjust. College and the world beyond are and should be a meritocracy. Rewards should be given to those who earn them. There was a time that, no matter how hard he worked or how smart he was, a black man could not go to medical school. That time has passed, and its time to close the books on affirmative action.
Hate crimes legislation bothers me because we already punish criminals for the crimes they commit. If a gay man is beaten because he is gay, is it any worse than being beaten by people who don't know he is gay? I'm not comfortable with the idea that people should be punished for what they think in addition to how they act.
By the way, where did you find those "offiicial" statistics on hate crimes?