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by nl 5816 days ago
If you are going stereotype offensively for shock value, then you damn well better have the statistics to back yourself up.

In 2005 in the US, there were 7 times more black homicide offenders than whites: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/tables/oracetab.cf...

At first glance, that may provide some evidence for your theory.

However, an alternate theory that I prefer could be stated something there is an inverse relationship between income and likelyhood of committing violent crime.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0699.p... shows that Black families are about 3 times as likely as whites to be below the poverty line. An average black household size is 2.7 (http://www.housingbubblebust.com/PopHsgRates/AllStatesHouseH...).

2.7 * 3 = 8.1, which is actually less than the 7 times offending rate cited above. (Yeah, I know there are some pretty big assumptions in that big of math. Still, the point remains that there is a real relationship between poverty and crime rates)