Myth of the "Black Underclass"

[Sargeras]

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~ewen/myth.htm

The critical point of difference is that of ethnic composition. Charleston has a minority population of approximately 15%, in marked contrast to the other cities. Its serious crime rate is NOT lower. And despite the media publicity about AIDS, gangs and drive by shootings in the urban areas, the overall death rate in Charleston, West Virginia is higher than any of the other cities.

But poverty in West Virginia is overwhelmingly rural, not urban.

The most important difference, however, is in the category of "race." The three poor West Virginia counties are overwhelmingly white. Mingo County has an African American population of 2.4% and an Hispanic population of .4%. In the other two counties, the percentage of minorities are negligible. Thus, all the images of poverty--teen mothers, welfare, unemployment--are markedly present for a predominantly white population.

The only "underclass" indicator that is lower for these counties is that of serious crime. As a state, West Virginia boasts the lowest crime rate in the nation.

Poverty leads to crime? :?: Something's not right here . . .

 

[Lord Raffles]

Poverty leads to crime is like saying African negroes have no technological or cultural advancements due to a lack of resources.

We all know that to be bullshit; Africa is probably one of the world's richest continents with regards to resources, and yet only accounts for 3% of world trade.

 

[Sargeras]

"You're right, something with you definitely isn't right."

afriad to bump the thread and get into a debate, jack?

 

[RWC]

Jack doesn't possess particularly strong debate skills so this doesn't surprise me. He'll just troll when provoked and take a vow of silence when defeated.

 

[Lord Raffles]

The Republic of Haiti, the only completely Black republicin the Western Hemisphere also happens to be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It also has the lowest life expectancy, highest illiteracy, lowest per capita consumption of newsprint, lowest per capita GNP, and the lowest level of political stability.

But Haiti once had a promising future. Before 1789 as a Frenchcolony under White rule, San Domingo (Haiti) was as rich or richer in productivityas all the 13 American Colonies combined. It was considered the "crownjewel" of the French colonial system, and was in fact the most prosperous colony anywhere in the world. Populated by 40,000 Whites, 27,000 freed Mulattoes,and 450,000 Black slaves and with a bountiful climate and productive soil, it supplied all of France and half of Europe with sugar, coffee, and cotton. But in 1791, the French government issued a decree ordering Haiti to give the vote to the Mulattoes, and soon after another ordering freedom for all the slaves. This resulted in a bloody civil war in which the entire White population (about 40,000 Frenchmen) was murdered, down to the last man, woman, and child. Rape, decapitation, and mutilation were committed almost universally upon their bodies.

After the Blacks massacred the last of the White populationin 1804, Haiti remained a part of Santa Domingo, until 1844 when it becamea separate "republic." Between 1844 and 1915 only one Haitian president completed his term in office. Fourteen were ousted by armed uprisings, one was blown up, one was poisoned and another was hacked to pieces by a mob. Between 1908 and 1915 the revolutions and assassinations increased so rapidly that a United States military occupation was needed to restoreorder. This lasted from 1915 to 1934. Thereafter followed twelve years of rule by a Mulatto elite which ended in the resumption of control by the Black military in 1946. Since then wholesale corruption and political murder have been the rule.

Remember: Not all who bare the face of man are human.

 

[Sargeras]

Jack doesn't possess particularly strong debate skills so this doesn't surprise me. He'll just troll when provoked and take a vow of silence when defeated.

Yup

 

[DarthSikle]

So they murdered Frenchmen. You make it sound like that was a bad thing.

 

[RWC]

Yes, but the said Frenchmen were the only thing that could've prevented what they have now- a toilet in the Caribbean. More proof that blacks create nothing but squalid conditions for themselves and those around them.