The FBI.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....f_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2014.xls
This is where you guys turn a blind eye. You just said it is easy for him to misspeak sometimes, but that is not what he did here at all. In this case, he found some incredibly obviously fabricated facts on a fucking meme, and then he spread that bullshit to the world.
A meme. He retweeted a
meme. A meme that was full of lies, and had a picture of a black guy with a bandana over his face, holding a sideways gun, and a fabricated source at the bottom. A meme that was 100% obviously fake, and clearly created by somebody pushing a racist agenda. The kind of meme circulated by the dumbest of the dumb Americans.
Is he an imbecile? Does he send money to Nigeria? Does he forward chain mail if it promises bad luck to those who don't?
This goes way beyond "misspeaking" and into territory of somebody who is just plain stupid, or had some other agenda behind spreading lies about black people. It's one or the other.
thanks for the stats. its a bit muddled that graph.
i appreciate your views on this.
id like to add that we rarely talk about how little violent crime Asians and Latins commit in America. Whites and blacks appear to have more problems in their communities by stats, blacks moreso by capita, which is what we focus on and might be better off not focusing on. There doesnt really appear to be a boatload of racist violent crime, or at least, the two colors avoid each other, but the violence is coming from within in both cases.
I hadnt actually even seen the meme post Trump made, even though you guys probably talked about it earlier in this thread, sorry. I agree that it is foolish to post it without screening harder, and much worse to defend it stubbornly. I still dont think he is racist (perhaps i am just being optimistic), he wears his heart on his sleeve, and gets quite emotional about chemical weapons and im sure stats like the ones he saw. He should be way more pragmatic.
One thing about racism, I want to get this out there, I think, judging from peoples posts and words amongst people i know, people DO see in color and in class, too. Part reductionist thinking and part tribal, maybe. Like, I cheered for Gusto over Jones before I had any dirt on Jones (in truth i dont care about his dirt, or Gus’ for that matter, but i dont love Jones’ personality now that i know him). Part of it is I always go for the underdog, and people were saying Jones was unbeatable,but a part, too, was that my people came from Gus’ land and he looks like me a bit, and i want those people to at least show up in the picture of world’s toughest men.
What Im saying is, Im racist. But, I think everyone is. So, when I say Trump isnt racist, I think he probably is, and probably doesnt love gays, but he hasnt passed anything to go after blacks or homos, and i dont think he has ever even hinted at it. We all have preferences, you just have to step out for perspective and realize everyone deserves proper treatment. Id rather date a fit girl than a fat girl, doesnt mean i intend to be mean to the fat girls.
I get what you are seeing - that Trump is putting out false stats to make blacks look bad, or even to appeal to ONE SECTION of his base -and you might be right. I think he is just emotional and not good at all at admitting he is wrong.
and ya, it is really bad to not check harder into false stats that say as much as those do. Very unprofessional.