Do the crime...do the time?

11/9/2014

These are not Canadian statistics but what do you think of them?

Alissa

11/9/2014 11:59:17 pm

I think these statistics are just terrible and stereotypical because dark skinned people are shamed for all of these things and it's only a small amount of that group who actually do drugs and are in gangs and etc.. I think from this statistic white people have an easier time with warnings and just getting away from it in general only because they're white and they're the dominant skin colour and for some weird reason it is just easier to get out of it while dark coloured skin are blamed for something because a small part of their racial group do those things.

Jimmy

11/10/2014 10:37:37 pm

I think this shows how people more quickly view Black people as suspicious, for no reason other than because they're black. The fact that far more white people do drugs, yet more black people get arrested for it is atrocious.

The statistics involving murder and shootings might be partially because of rougher neighbourhoods tending to have more black people because it's all they can afford because they have less opportunities than white people. It can be very difficult for them to get out of a situation like that, whereas most white people were never in situations like that. (That is, statistically more black people are in situations like this than white people) Why is this, though? Because black people have less opportunities due to racism so it's harder for them to get as good a job as white people, and they get paid less on average so they simply can't afford to live in a safer neighbourhood.

The friskings, however, are direct racism, rather than the result of racism. It's like with the drug thing; black people are viewed as suspicious and white people aren't.

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