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I won't argue about most of your points as we disagree on the fundamental level (i subscribe to the Bill Cosby view as elaborated in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_Cake_speech).

However - your read of the FBI data (which I frequently use myself) is completely off. Blacks are responsible for significantly higher crime rate than whites (for whom that table doesn't work because it mixes Mexicans and whites in one column). To wit:

Blacks are 13% of population but are MAJORITY of arrests for murder (49%).

That's more than 3x their share of the population.

All other rows they are also heavily represented. The only row where they are below their population number is DUI.



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