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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
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And then you counter with statistics about how underserved Black communities are re: education and social services. Poverty leads to more lawlessness. Show evidence that Black men are disproportionately punished for crimes that an affluent white person might get a slap on the wrist for (i.e. Marijuana possession), and how having a criminal record (even for a minor, nonviolent offense) affects his ability to find good employment; something that will already be harder for him to find because of inherent racial bias in hiring practices.
Ask them how they would feel if their community had the lion's share of its social services away, their children's schools defunded and closed, if the police watched them constantly for any sign of conduct bordering on illegal, had their opportunities for upward growth squashed on every institutional level.
Wouldn't you see where that would lead to internal conflict?
Stop giving in to BS arguments that have nothing to do with the conversion at hand. BLM is about racial profiling by law enforcement, unfair and racially biased sentencing. It's about the fact that a Black kid from a "bad" neighborhood has almost zero chances at getting out of that life, while a white kid from a rich suburban family might get caught with cocaine and he probably wouldn't even lose his scholarship. It's about predatory lending practices that disproportionately keep Black people in debt, but also make it harder for them to upgrade to better neighborhoods and thus better school districts.
It's cyclical, its an institutional problem. Even in predominantly white neighborhoods, those with higher poverty also have higher crime. So when we as a society consistently, over generations, keep much of an entire race in poverty, when we either refuse to give them resources or we take them away, yes, the result is always going to be more crime.
The answer is to give those communities a way out of the negative cycle they're in.
I grew up with the same kind of somewhat subtly racist views your family has. It's my responsibility and yours to break that cycle and inform those around us.