As the issue of race is being discussed for soemthing like the millionth time on this forum, I've decided to try and make a comment beyond just saying that I don't judge people by race.
I personally will always judge an individucal person by how they behave, what they say and what they do.
But as so many people appear to be anti-black, and suggest that black people are more likely to be criinals etc, I've decided that I should look at some hard facts.
Firstly figures from the 2005 US census, numbers of people of different races living in the US.
White American, 74.7%, or about 215.3 million (the definition of White includes European Americans, North African Americans, Middle Eastern Americans (e.g. Arab Americans), Central Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans who reported as White in the 2000 Census)
Black or African American 12.1% or 34.9 million
Asian American 4.3% or 12.5 million,
American Indian 0.8% or 2.4 million
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.1% or 0.4 million
Two or more races 1.9% or 5.6 million
Other 6% or 17.3 million
Secondly figures from the "Uniform Crime Reporting Program" breaking down crime in the US in the year 2005 by race.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.htmlIf we look at this, we can see that White people, of which there are 215.3 million carried out about 7.1 million criminal acts, so 3.3% of white people in the US are criminals.
Black people, of which there are 34.9 million carried out 2.8 million criminal acts, so 8% of black people in the US are criminals.
If you want to look at any other races, do it yourself.
These simple sums have done suggest that for one reason or another the average black person in america is over twice as likely to be a criminal than the average white person. Having seen this, I can begin to understand where some of you are coming from, but still, it is far from a majority of black people, and I would still advocate judging each individual person by how they behave, not by how somoene who looks similar behaves.