And those same black neighborhoods had redlining, deliberately starved infrastructure and public services, and bad policing to contend with. Not to mention that black GI's were deliberately cheated out of the GI Bill that created so much upward mobility for returning white soldiers.

> It's telling that diversity has to be enforced by government force

Do you really not understand the history of segregation in the United States? Again, segregation meant black public schools were getting deliberately starved of resources as yet another facet of institutional racism.

Dude, I had a friend who constantly harangued me[1] to look into such claims over a period of six months.

He also made the same claims that you do above (and more!) and stupid as I was, I attempted to substantiate them.

This puts me in the unusual position of being extremely liberal, but also very familiar with the lines of 'evidence' that people use for these types of claims, and many more conspiracy theories.

I wasn't able to find support for any of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

"Much more strongly" is an overstatement, and this thesis doesn't take into account the multiplicative (not linear) effects of discrimination - in all its institutional and informal forms - and poverty. Crime in Japan tracks more closely with Buraku heritage than with income, and they are genetically indistinguishable from the rest of the population. This is a social problem with a social solution, that racist mid-century urban planners and policymakers made phenomenally worse by encouraging white flight.

It tells that in the 1950s, many white Americans were racist.

Would you please stop it with the flamebait on divisive topics? The account was an obvious troll. If you want to help combat that kind of thing, why not flag the comment? Other users did, which (a) killed it, and then (b) brought it to our attention so we could ban it. That's how to contribute positively in a case like this. Taking HN threads further into flamewar and political rhetoric is exactly what the guidelines ask you not to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html