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Check out the statistics compiled from government sources here

They may say they will work to improve women's status, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's.

You see the same BS about poverty. It's some kind of jealous hatred that makes you want to bring the other guy down instead of elevating yourself. Tell me something. If you want to do something about poverty and you notice a middle-class family and a very poor family, will you reduce poverty by turning the middle-class family into a poor family? No, because now you have two families in poverty. If you want to reduce poverty you aid the impoverished family.

If blacks or women or whatever feel disempowered you fix that by teaching them how to assert their power, not by taking power away from somebody else. What you want to do here is like fixing your car by breaking your neighbor's. It's childish jealousy.

1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.

First off do you think people should be forced to associate with someone they don't want to be around? You think that is a free country? Oh I get it, they don't agree with you and instead of convincing them you want to use force to make them do something they don't want to do. That makes YOU an oppressor. Just because you think you have a great cause doesn't make you less of a hypocrite.

For another ... various integration and diversity efforts mean an all-white crowd is pretty hard to find in any workplace, college, or other institution.

2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area, which I can afford and in which I would want to live.

3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.

4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.

It's just a fact blacks and hispanics really do commit more crimes per capita than whites and asians. Some perceptions are fantasy and prejudice. This one is grounded in reality. See the color of crime. You really think that as a group people can wreak more havoc than others and never have anybody think worse of them? Sorry but it does not work that way. Truth is tho that if you are black and try to better yourself, dress decently, speak decent English as taught by any public school, and have a legitimate job most whites will welcome you. On the other hand if you work hard to act, speak, and dress in saggy pants like a "thug gangsta" criminal because you think that's cool, don't be surprised if you are treated like one. This isn't a white-black thing. Whites who look like criminal biker gang members aren't welcomed with open arms either.

5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.

Funny you mention that! Blacks are about 13% of the US population. They appear in easily over 50% of commercials and print advertisements. Not only are they represented, they are over-represented with respect to their percentage of population. You have no point here.

6. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.

Blacks helped to make black life what it is. You see Africa was a very terribly dangerous place for a white man to tread back in the Triangular Trade days. The natives knew the land and defended it fiercely. Slavery simply would not have been possible without Africans who kidnapped other Africans and sold them to the white man as slaves. And I am sorry but unless you really like primitive tribes what civilization have blacks created?

7. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials th

If TomTom or some other competing GPS device manufacturer wants to implement identical functionality without running afoul of the patent, they can simply use demographic data rather than crime data. Since blacks are at least seven times more likely to commit a violent crime and Hispanics three times more likely, it would be just as good to use neighborhood demographic data as a basis for plotting a safer route.

Of course, it would not be as politically correct to admit that race and crime have such a strong correlation. Perhaps a Chinese GPS manufacturer could capitalize on this and sell into the Western market. The Chinese don't give a rat's ass about PC!

Why not suggest using income data instead. That way you don't come off as a racist scumbag. Just sayin'.

If TomTom or some other competing GPS device manufacturer wants to implement identical functionality without running afoul of the patent, they can simply use demographic data rather than crime data. Since blacks are at least seven times more likely to commit a violent crime and Hispanics three times more likely, it would be just as good to use neighborhood demographic data as a basis for plotting a safer route.

Of course, it would not be as politically correct to admit that race and crime have such a strong correlation. Perhaps a Chinese GPS manufacturer could capitalize on this and sell into the Western market. The Chinese don't give a rat's ass about PC!

Advocates call the law a necessary control on hate speech in an age where the Internet makes the spread of messages easier and faster. Opponents say it's censorship and has no place in a free society.

Not only are we divided on whether it should be legal, we are divided on what it should be.

Is it hate speech to call other races subhumans, but legal to note in a scientific paper that there IQ differences between races, moral evolutionary differences, or even that statistically, crime is not distributed evenly between all groups?

Half of scientists say race doesn't exist, the others keep quiet.

The bigger issue here is what we're obscuring the pursuit of truth with all sorts of social pretense. Let's look at the facts and keep emotion (true hate speech) and censorship out of the debate.

Crime statistics are racist too.

http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.html

Except those darker-skinned negroes actually bring a lot of crime and poverty with them: http://www.colorofcrime.com/.

Of course, if you don't believe those "racist" claims, then you can crunch the data yourself from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports in which arrests are broken down by racial group.