06-10-2020, 11:19 AM
(06-08-2020, 03:04 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Michael Harriot of the Root, whose videos I use in class to cover a ton of great history of racial policies, had this great response to people bringing up black on black crime, breaking down the actual statistics compared to white on white crime and the degree to which black people give back to their communities compared to other groups.
It wasn't long ago that members here were posting links from Stormfront to argue that black people were inherently more criminal. The racism exists, and here's a tool to confront it. Check it out. There's over 20 tweets in this thread, so I won't be able to post them all here
https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1268463768285188096
LOL I have never seen anyone develop and support an argument so well on Twitter as Harriot.
One complaint about it though: "racism" is a pretty vague explanation, when simply dropped into an argument as Harrington does.
Someone who thinks Blacks don't address black on black crime, that a larger percentage of blacks "decide" to commit crimes and the like, is going to read Harriot's usage as a claim that whites "decide" to be racists. Since most believe they have decided no such thing, they'll not be able to recognize "racism" as a cause or understand it as an explanation.
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