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The historical fact is that discrimination against black people (and many other people), including slavery, lynching, segregation, etc., long predates any of this.

> Black culture that embrace gangs and thugs and violence

What do you know about it? It's a little absurd to attach one static 'culture' to all black-skinned Americans, but despite what you see on TV that's not the 'culture' for most people as I know it personally. If you want to characterize it by data, it would be the exposion of education and social mobility to the middle class since black Americans obtained civil rights.




>The historical fact is that discrimination against black people (and many other people), including slavery, lynching, segregation, etc., long predates any of this.

Racism in those era, are again, a product of its environment at those time. For example, slavery.

>It's a little absurd to attach one static 'culture' to all black-skinned Americans

Now, you're speaking in absolute. And it's not good to speak in absolute.

>...but despite what you see on TV that's not the 'culture' for most people as I know it personally.

Cops are not worry about those good Black people. Cops are worry about the gang bangers, the thugs, the criminals. When cops pull these types of people over, they have to be cautious. These are the types that carried, illegally. Cops need to be careful when dealing with these, and hence, that's where the biased comes from. It did not come from nothing. It comes from the fact that their lives could end.

>If you want to characterize it by data, it would be the exposion of education...

Agreed. That's why I said it can only be solved through a change in values and culture from the Black community. Education must be emphasis. Kids must stop dropping out. Kids must go to school and learn the necessary skills required to get a jobs.

>...and social mobility to the middle class since black Americans obtained civil rights.

Getting a great job is the thing that will help Black move into the middle class. Again, the values and culture of the Black community must change to emphasis on getting a better job in order to move up into the middle class. And away from the ghetto. As the ghetttos disappeared or changed into higher claass, cops become more trusting as the crime rates goes down, and that will reduce the racism.

This is how you solve it.




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