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Old 11-13-2009, 07:49 PM
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I understand the points you're making but I'm going by my personal experiences, which is why I edited my post. For someone to just generalize as if crime doesn't exist in other neighborhoods or that ghettos only include Black folks is just false. I can remember being 13-14 whenever staying at my cousin's house in South Philly (lots of Italians in South Philly) and not going into an Italian neighborhood after a certain time due to crime, including racial. I'm not saying this is always the case but it definitely goes down. I just don't respect people that make broad generalizations; I have no problem with madmax's point of view, if only he didn't talk out of his ass and stuck to the facts.
You don't need personal experiences to know that the majority of the poor and those on welfare are whites based on population size. It's the disproportionate poverty of Blacks that garners more attention because it is disproportionate and has had a measurable impact that differentiates it from the poverty of others.

It simply is not true that poverty has nothing to do with race (madmax isn't the one "attaching race," he's simply successfully getting to you all). Whether discussing white poverty, Black poverty, or Hispanic poverty, race remains a factor and poverty varies across race.

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