Race(genetic relatedness within certain bounds) isn't purely skin colour, race is a whole host genetic expressions that develop over time in response to selection factors in an environment. Skin colour being one of the more visible of these genetic expressions.
Black people don't commit more murders because they're black - they commit more murders because they live in under-resourced, under-educated, poor communities
That's a hypothesis. You're free to go about proving or evidencing your position in whatever way you see fit then presenting your data to our peers for evaluation.
The unfortunate fact is that blacks have elevated levels of criminality compared to other races across all socio-economic categories.
A white person and a black person are equally likely to commit a murder given the same set of circumstances
Again, this is a hypothesis and you are free to try and establish a base of evidence to support it(although good science simply evaluates hypotheses against impartially collected evidence). A couple things off the top of my head you may be interested in as you evaluate this hypothesis.
I believe there have been studies looking into racial variability among things like impulse control, and what is known as "future time horizon." I can't seem to find any of them at the moment.
Another thing to consider, there are a number of very poor white areas in the US, I think some of the poorest counties in the US are mostly white. I'm also pretty sure the crime rates in those areas are not as high as comparable black areas. Feel free to double check that.
Implying that blackness is a causal factor is both entirely wrong and
I don't know how you got that implication from my previous comment which simply stated the fact that the crime rate among blacks is much higher than among whites and other races.
hugely racist.
If you want to discuss these matters productively it's really best to avoid jumping to words such as "racist" that, when not clearly describing obscene behavior, are just used in attempt to discredit other people.
>That's a hypothesis. You're free to go about proving or evidencing your position.
Here in Switzerland black Swiss do not commit more murders than other "races". Surely you won't argue the alpine winds changed their genome with respect to black Americans now would you?
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Actually, that seems like the type of thing for which somewhat decent statistics should be readily available, do you know where one might look this up?
In fact, poverty alone does not explain the crime rate gap. You can call this view "hugely racist" but I don't see how you can rule out a whole set of other causes a priori. And I'm not mainly referring to genetics, but rather other sociological causes as are discussed in[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...
Do you think "affluenza"[1] was a worthy defence and justified not holding the person in Texas who killed people while drunk driving accountable?
Also, how does your assertion that poverty among blacks is the main if not sole cause of their elevated murder rates square with the fact that the murder rates among impoverished whites is not comparable?
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[0]It is also unfortunate and misguided to place responsibility and thus responsibility to solve the problem solely on outside groups. What outside group or society should we blame for the relatively materially impoverished state of some Australian Aborigine, Papua New Guinean, Sub-Saharan African, and American Indian groups that was discovered upon their first contact with other groups? Some people just live in different ways, owing in part to the selection pressure of the environments they evolved in over many years, there's no reason to blame anyone for that.
The fact that some of these difference in crime rates can be explained by factors such as poverty, doesn't change the fact that on encountering a Black person, a White person is in more danger than encountering a White person.
That isn't really a function of skin colour though. Black people don't commit more murders because they're black - they commit more murders because they live in under-resourced, under-educated, poor communities that have been created by decades of racism by employers and authorities.
A white person and a black person are equally likely to commit a murder given the same set of circumstances, but the way society works means black people are more likely to face those situations.
Implying that blackness is a causal factor is both entirely wrong and hugely racist.