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is a problem. And because the black family was doing better in the 1950s when racism was worse, it is worth considering whether black crime might be due either to destructive black culture or to biological differences between the races.

okay well it's not racism in the police and it's not poverty then we get to two places that make people extremely uncomfortable and one of them is somewhat uncomfortable and the other is thermonuclear and comfortable the somewhat uncomfortable one is the question of is there something self-destructive in black culture and perhaps its rage against the servants opposed a defensive of white institutionalized racism is there something self-destructive in black culture and there's a lot of data to support that insofar as black families for instance we're doing much better in the nineteen fifties when we could argue that racism was far higher hey is there something destructive in the black culture and b is there something biologically different between the races and those two areas are such staggering landmines for people that it sort of its it's a truth test you like in the old days in the medieval court system if you were accused of a crime one of the ways you could prove your innocence was to reach into a boiling vat of water and pull out and iron rod and there are actually some vaguely decent reasons for that only because only innocent people would assume that God would protect him from such a burning but that's the truth test for me for intellectual integrity with regards to this and one that I failed myself for many years so i say this with all humility is that can you reach in and even begin to entertain the court the idea of either district black culture and the question of racial differences that are biologically rooted yes of that is as you say the

is out of control. If New York City were 100% white, you would have a decrease in the murder rate of about 90%, muggings would drop 90%, shootings would practically vanish and disappear. You could fire probably three-quarters, maybe 80-90% percent of the police force.

and if you do take arrest rates as the best indicators of crime commission rates and that's the best data we have aside from the reports of the victims and as I say these track almost perfectly in terms of proportions well refined are some really quite astonishing things in some of the large cities in the United States and these are unusual samples in certain respects because the large cities you find wealthier whites and often poor blacks but you will find differentials and violent crime rates of fold in some cases -fold in the case of shootings in New York City and shooting is when someone fires a weapon in New York City and a bullet hit someone blacks are arrested at nearly times the rate of whites but this is a staggering disproportionate very seldom in sociology you get disparities as huge as this to the point where if if New York City were one hundred percent white and all the additional flights were committing crimes the same rates as the whites who are currently living there you would have a decrease the murder rate of about ninety percent muggings would drop % shootings would practically vanish and disappear you could fire probably three-quarters maybe eighteen ninety percent of police force and all of these statistics are there available in the police department's annual report i would bet you any amount of money the New York Times has never discussed those statistics as you say once you open the door where does it in once you determine that perhaps the races are not equivalent oh my gosh where does this lead but to that argument I point out that we are now building a society based on a complete misperception about race which leads to all kinds of absurd distortions inequalities and all manner of unfairness in the other direction i think is increasingly intolerable

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