Hacker News Reader

It's not racism and calling it that does a disservice to the issues of actual racism. Also, nobody says that. Police will always use correlation to predict criminality. You will never change that, but we can change the reason for the statistical correlation: poverty.

Male immigration is too profitable, so nobody with a voice would want to curb it.

View on HN

Yet the truly poor are subsidized with food stamps and subsidized housing. Poor people in West Virginia (a large amount) generally don't kill each other. What am I missing?

> we can change the reason for the statistical correlation: poverty.

Even within the same income bracket, the black homicide rate is an order of magnitude larger than the white one (and after 1975, the homicide rate of the richest blacks is larger than of the poorest whites):

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/racial-differe... , table 6

Can you correct for slavery and 400 years of oppression though?

What exactly is the argument? That rich blacks commit murder at a higher rate than poor whites directly contradicts the argument that it is all about poverty. So the usual argument that slavery led to poverty and poverty leads to crime is wrong. What's left? That these people are committing murder to avenge the slavery of their ancestors, or that murder was baked into their culture by slavery?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com