Racism: Back In Style? (at Cornell)

Cornell Review ^ | Nov 11, 2002 | Paul M Eastlund

[MattAMiller]

Actually blacks are more likely than whites to be charged with hate crimes. Which may seem to contradict my previous post, but there are so few of them that it's hard to extrapolate any large trend.

[Texas_Jarhead]

liberal always seem to push my disgust meter to new levels - I feel sorry for the people who attended but more than that I feel sorry for America because those sad racists are our future

[mfreddy]

I find that VERY hard to believe. If you can provide proof, I will apologize. Until then, my assertion stands.

[Burkeman1]

I just took a gander at that FBI table. There is no "Hispanic" category even though they are second largest prison population after blacks. And I certainly think they aren't "Others" or "unidentified" as those numbers are far to low. I wonder if the FBI called Hispanics "white" for statistical purposes? I certainly don't buy the 2.6 to 1 ratio. I can't even recall a case in my state in years in which a black was killed by a white and that table indicates that there should be at least 2 or 3 a year in my state alone!

[slowhandluke]

re: boiling in oil

Paul is my son and I did have reservations. However, his goals include writing for the Cornell Review (the conservative paper on campus) and maybe getting in to politics. In some ways, this is a great political education for him.

I'm not sure the term 'sending' is the right word here. Paul's been given a budget, and it won't pay for all of Cornell. He choose the school and will have to handle details of a rather large budget gap (ROTC?).

[slowhandluke]

'the last 15 years?' That puts him at 4 years old. His parent's told him it would be so ... so he only half-way believed it.

[slowhandluke]

Re: engineer doing politics

It does happen. Paul Eastlund is a comp-sci major.

[mlmr]

Good for you having such a brave and aware son. Many kids are not that aware and would be eaten alive by the pretenders.

[bam]

I just took a gander at that FBI table. There is no "Hispanic" category even though they are second largest prison population

I've read in a couple of places, but never verified it, that if an Hispanic is the perp, then it goes into the white category. If the Hispanic is a victim, then there is a separate Hispanic category for that????

[mlmr]

And a number of engineers visit FR

[Sam Cree]

What a joke that seems to anyone who was around in the 1967-1970 period when mobs were literally tearing campuses apart physically. Riverman,who can remember REAL leftists who would put these poseur sissies out there now to shame!

Riverman, I think those "REAL" leftists you're talking about from the late 60's have grown up and are now the professors and administrators at these colleges. They are the very people who instituted such things as all black dorms, etc, and all the rest of the politically correct garbage that is such a part of modern education. So, on the faculty level, there probably is a leftist revolutionary turmoil.

Though, hopefully you could be right about the kids who are the current students.

I was there too, in those days.

[MattAMiller]

I find that VERY hard to believe. If you can provide proof, I will apologize. Until then, my assertion stands

Here's what I managed to dig up.

[185JHP]

It's a lot more than twice. A white person is 8 times as likely to be killed by a black person, than to kill a black person. Almost 50% of the rapes and murders in the USA are done by black people. The last FBI Uniform Crime Report numbers I remember were 46% and 47%. I don't remember which number was for which crime. It's relatively easy to believe that others do something that you yourself do. Since a lot of the rotten blacks think/do/say racist things, and plot against white people, they have no problem with accusing white people - no need for evidence, they project what's in their own minds.

[mfreddy]

You are correct. I apologize. There are a lot of stats thrown around here, few are backed up.

[mfreddy]

You know, the rate is still almost 4 to 1.

[Tired of Taxes]

Sounds like a comedy skit. That whole story sounds so familiar. It sums-up my experience growing up in a mixed neighborhood, riding to high school as the only white kid on the school bus, and then working in places where I was one of a handful of whites: Fellow students and coworkers associating only with other "black" people and talking trash about "whites", and then without reason accusing me and other "whites" of racism. And I'm no racist. In fact, my husband is black.

Fortunately, people seem to change once they grow up. It seems that older people - many of whom grew up under segregation - are much more open. Meanwhile, these young college students think they're so oppressed.

[Calvin Locke]

I'd like to see the numbers ...

I seriously doubt they would reflect any sense of reality.

Heard an author on a recent book on the FBI. J. Edgar had some often solved crime made Federal so the FBI could bring
up its numbers, even though it was the local constabulary that solved practically all of the cases.

So, expecting them to go against the Ted Kennedys, the Congressional Black caucus, and the liberal media and report real numbers is beyond hope.

Was it in Philly that the paper published the wanted list and photos of murder suspects? Few, if any, happened to be non-minority in that current snapshot of suspects. The outcry! How dare they?

There is a serious cultural divide when people complain about the authorities attempting to remove murderers from said population. I guess they like being victims.

[Burkeman1]

I don't even buy the 8/1 ratio. If you look at the FBI crime stats they say that blacks kill whites at a 2.6/1 ratio. But if you look at their numbers there is no category for Hispanics in these figures even though they are the second highest prison population behind blacks! Is the FBI listing Hispanics as "whites" in their numbers? Check it out on the FBI website- table 2.8 of the Uniform Crime Stats.

[over3Owithabrain]

The biggest problem facing American society today is Black on White racism

You may be right on the money - I live in Atlanta, a "chocolate city", and truly there are many fine, successful blacks. But there is also a signifcant number who make it clear to you if you're white (as I am), that you better not expect equal treatment, service, etc. I'm not whining about it, mind you, I can handle their bigotry. But you'd be amazed how often they make obvious remarks, gestures and facial expressions when approached by a white person. I've approached black peers at work to discuss a matter and been ignored as soon as one of their own walks up with a lesser issue. I've had blacks prance in front of my car against traffic, daring me to hit them so they can cry racism.

Hate is hate, and bigotry is bigotry, no matter the color. And the left foments it more than any group since the KKK.

[TLBSHOW]

Ann Coulter started this paper!

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