Examining the racialization of crime


	Examining the racialization of crime

nariposa

4-12-2008 3:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ff4e050-d24c-4c61-972f-44dc4cbe4439/53A2296D-7E34-4799-90BD-DACFE618512B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man" href="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man" style="font-size: 11px;">digg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man">How do whites expect blacks to critique themselves when so many are oblivious to their own faults?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man">According to FBI statistics 6 out of 10 violent criminals are white males. So 60% of violent criminals are committing less than 10% of violent crimes. Uh huh! Or let's talk about drunk driving in which 10,000 people die yearly and who is responsible for 84% of those deaths: white people. In fact white men drove drunk 85 million times, compared to 5.8 million times for Black men.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man">by encouraging whites to fear Black folks, the prevailing discourse paints a highly unrealistic picture of danger, which leaves people less safe.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man">Only 1.86% of Black men, and less than eight-tenths of one percent of all African Americans will commit a violent crime in a given year, and only a minuscule percentage of these will choose white victims.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Cosby_This_Is_How_We_Lost_to_the_White_Man">Yet, the racialization of crimes, allows your guard down to the real sources of danger that confront whites: lovers, spouses, family members or neighbors of our same race.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/53A2296D-7E34-4799-90BD-DACFE618512B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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