Comments on: Racism and Essentialism http://blog.globalistgirl.net/2008/04/23/racism-and-essentialism/ The world from the middle of a culture smoothie Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:56:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: globalistgirl http://blog.globalistgirl.net/2008/04/23/racism-and-essentialism/comment-page-1/#comment-436 globalistgirl Sat, 03 May 2008 20:48:31 +0000 http://blog.globalistgirl.net/2008/04/23/racism-and-essentialism/#comment-436 Very sociologically interesting reply. First of all, it has nothing to do with my post. That you feel the need to not only reply exhibiting a specific instance of racial essentialism, but also bothered to dig up or make up statistics (which I, by the way, am not going to bother to check, because even if they were correct they wouldn't prove essentialism), says quite a bit about you. I'm a bit surprised that anyone would feel so strongly about not only believing, but also spreading racial essentialism. Second, your reply is interesting because you completely ignore the effect of (white) colonialism in Africa, along with the effects of legalized guns and various other social causes of the statistics you talk about. Those dictators didn't arise out of a vacuum. One could make nasty essentialist theories about the evilness of white skin as well - are we destined to exploit and oppress people wherever we go and whatever we do? Can you be moral and have white skin too? Third, it is interesting because in order to sustain your (seemingly fervent) belief in racial essentialism, you have to either ignore or be ignorant of some basic facts of human genetic makeup and how genetics work in general. Put together, it seems like it is more important to you to believe in racial essentialism than to be logical and informed. That's more than a little concerning. Very sociologically interesting reply.

First of all, it has nothing to do with my post. That you feel the need to not only reply exhibiting a specific instance of racial essentialism, but also bothered to dig up or make up statistics (which I, by the way, am not going to bother to check, because even if they were correct they wouldn’t prove essentialism), says quite a bit about you. I’m a bit surprised that anyone would feel so strongly about not only believing, but also spreading racial essentialism.

Second, your reply is interesting because you completely ignore the effect of (white) colonialism in Africa, along with the effects of legalized guns and various other social causes of the statistics you talk about. Those dictators didn’t arise out of a vacuum. One could make nasty essentialist theories about the evilness of white skin as well – are we destined to exploit and oppress people wherever we go and whatever we do? Can you be moral and have white skin too?

Third, it is interesting because in order to sustain your (seemingly fervent) belief in racial essentialism, you have to either ignore or be ignorant of some basic facts of human genetic makeup and how genetics work in general.

Put together, it seems like it is more important to you to believe in racial essentialism than to be logical and informed. That’s more than a little concerning.

]]> By: Jane http://blog.globalistgirl.net/2008/04/23/racism-and-essentialism/comment-page-1/#comment-435 Jane Sat, 03 May 2008 17:26:25 +0000 http://blog.globalistgirl.net/2008/04/23/racism-and-essentialism/#comment-435 Although blacks are 12% of the population in reality it is just 2% of the blacks that commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes. Consider: black females - 6%. Blacks from zero yrs. to 12 yrs. and black males from 50-100 years commit an infinitesimal percentage of the crimes. Therefore we are left with two percent. If we eliminate crimes committed by this two percent from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact -- blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact -- blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact -- blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact -- blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody’s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was almost 20 years ago. (Source NYT 4/22/05) According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2004 report (released May 2006), blacks commit 54 percent of the homicides in America even though they constitute only 12 percent of the population. An individual black male is seven times more likely to commit murder than an individual white male. It so happens that black felons commit 43 percent of aggravated assaults, 66 percent of armed robberies, 27 percent of rapes and 85 percent of interracial crimes of violence, mainly against whites (this last figure from a Justice Department report 2003). However, it's not just in the United States. The greatest dicators in recent years have emerged in Africa. People like Idi Amin of Uganda, Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi, Mobutu Sese Seko, in Zaire, self-anointed Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic, Mohammed Saidi Barre in Somalia, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe -- the list is endless. Blacks are dumber as well, statistics analyzed by the New York Times (July 4, 1999) dispel the poverty argument by establishing that impoverished white children whose parents earn less than $10,000 a year score higher on standardized SAT tests than black children whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year. Also, nearly 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock. Although blacks are 12% of the population in reality it is just 2% of the blacks that commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes. Consider: black females – 6%. Blacks from zero yrs. to 12 yrs. and black males from 50-100 years commit an infinitesimal percentage of the crimes. Therefore we are left with two percent. If we eliminate crimes committed by this two percent from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact — blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact — blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact — blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact — blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody’s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was almost 20 years ago. (Source NYT 4/22/05)

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2004 report (released May 2006), blacks commit 54 percent of the homicides in America even though they constitute only 12 percent of the population.

An individual black male is seven times more likely to commit murder than an individual white male. It so happens that black felons commit 43 percent of aggravated assaults, 66 percent of armed robberies, 27 percent of rapes and 85 percent of interracial crimes of violence, mainly against whites (this last figure from a Justice Department report 2003). However, it’s not just in the United States. The greatest dicators in recent years have emerged in Africa. People like Idi Amin of Uganda, Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi, Mobutu Sese Seko, in Zaire, self-anointed Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic, Mohammed Saidi Barre in Somalia, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe — the list is endless.

Blacks are dumber as well, statistics analyzed by the New York Times (July 4, 1999) dispel the poverty argument by establishing that impoverished white children whose parents earn less than $10,000 a year score higher on standardized SAT tests than black children whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year. Also, nearly 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.

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