PitBull said:
It doesn't matter if they get the crime stats from the UN.
I believe it does; that in and of itself is a major factor, since we know many of the governments to be unreliable themselves.
Local people in
third world countries don't report crimes against them to the UN like they
would to the police.
You're right; they report more often to the UN than to the police, and are more willing to do so because in corrupt countries like nigeria, many police officers can bribe you or extort you, or simply not do enough to help you.
If anything, they would be more likely to report to the UN and the other affiliated organizations about their problems.
There are just very few UN people there.
Don't know how you come to that conclusion. The UN is present worldwide, and it has many, many branch organizations affiliated with it located in the countries it operates in, from which data can be gathered.
All the UN
does is estimate.
It does estimate...for countries in which there is no data. Interpol and the CIA will do the same if there is no data available.
It is not a reliable source for anything. There is no hard
data. Stick to first world countries that have hard data.
Disagreed.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/south_afri ca.html
The hard data with regards to all the major crime categories is there for places like South Africa and the like. Interpol and the UN compile the data, and given the reputations of those two organizations(especially Interpol), I'd say that data is fairly solid.
And as for reliability, well, in my experience most people tend to accept it as reliable. Certainly, there is nothing more reliable with regards to these issues.
If by magic we could actually get rid of all blacks in America, our
economy would boom.
I understand how much you dislike us, but even you have to be realistic about certain things. The fact is that if Blacks simply disappeared, the economy would lose close to a trillion dollars worth of productivity. They would also lose a large source of labor. And on top of that, black immigrants are a large portion of the scientific and mathematical fields in this country.
With such a mass exodus of cash and labor, the economy would go into a recession. If ytou like, you could try replacing blacks with Mexicans. You would have to in order to gain back the job spots and the productivity, but getting another 40 million mexicans in here and assimilating them into the economy would take decades.
The economy would take multiple decades to recover, and a separate black nation on its own would end up becoming the 15th richest nation on Earth.
Be realistic about these things.
The issue is indeed what you/they contribute
economically, which is almost nothing. I would bet they/you are a net
minus.
A GDP of close to $ 1 Trillion is insignificant?
If that were to disappear, you'd be in trouble. Blacks are capable of contributing a lot more-that is the issue. This does not mean that what they are contributing now is insignificant.
I understand that the maximum potential has not been reached but, seriously, we have to be realistic. You can't lose that much money and labor and expect it to have no effect.
You'd need Mexicans to replace blacks, and just going and getting 40 million of them isn't going to be a walk in the park.
Blacks are simply not as intelligent a group as whites. Every single
intellectual test ever devised has shown this consistently. Even middle
and upper income blacks score lower than middle and upper income
whites.
Their actual genetic capability is in the lower 90's, off by about 7 points, maybe 8.
That isn't bad.
This is not an issue of money.
It is more cultural than anything else.
Black income in the post war years boomed, like all other americans.
Except-unlike all other Americans-blacks back then faced legalized, institutional racism that was designed quite literally to keep them from getting too successful. And yet, they succeeded.
Today, in the absence of such a system, blacks still act as if they need help to go anywhere, when their ancestors got somewhere in the face of really, really steep odds.
Culture can do wonders.
But
many well-paying manufacturing jobs are gone, and immigrants are
lowering wages for the other ones.
According to your reasoning, they went overseas because of the increasing labor rates, leaving blacks with fewer options. The Illegal immigrants aren't helping.
If we got rid of the wealth transfer, it
would be absolutely devastating to blacks in today's economic climate.
You're right, it would....if they decided to keep thinking the same way.
If blacks adopt a mentality more condusive to economic success, then things will get better. If they continue to follow the root of utter victimology, things will stay the same.
Black labor is uncompetitive with every other ethnic group. That's why
you don't see international companies relocating to Africa or the
caribbean--they go to China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, the Phillipines, etc.
Last i chekced, there were a bunch of companies directly investing heavily in places like South Africa(plenty of whites there, but most of the workers there are actually black) and even Nigeria and Angola see a whole lot of direct investment, despite their relatively high rates of corruption and lower rates of development.
In any case, the caribbean, in my mind, is a poor example to use. There are 17 of those countries. Cuba is not really a black country(I'll count the Dominican Republic, they are predominantly Africoid).
Almost all of those nations, save for Haiti and the DR, have populations under 2 milion. Even Haiti and the DR do not surpass 9 million each.
Why would you compare them to heavyweights like China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, etc, etc? That's hardly fair. Most of these islands, given their size, can only really expect to act somewhat like Singaporeans, developing their service and financial industries. That is why most of these countries end up relying on tourism, banking, and a little agriculture to sustain themselves.
You can't really expect them to end up becoming major destinations for all of those manufacturing companies(except those major cruise lines, banking and other service companies which have to do with the service industry).
You got the jobs white american men didn't want in the 40's (white
soldiers off to war overseas), 50's and 60's. Times have changed.
They got the jobs white American men
could not fill at that time, just the same way that Immigrants today are supplementing the labor force. They filled all of the factories in the 50's, 60's and 70's, while whites occupied jobs that were, on average, better paying.
Yes, what I said about companies fleeing America and its high wage rates
is true. But its not just dragging blacks down, its dragging whites down
too.
Well, I'm only emphasizing the effect it has on blacks because of two reasons:
1. Its ironic that AA, which blacks vehemently support,is actually helping to cause this issue.
2. Blacks tend to occupy the lower income jobs that these factories provide primarily, so naturally their leaving would have a more devastating effect.
There has never, in the history of the world, been a movement like the
one we have tried here in America to raise one racial group, blacks, up to
our standards of another, whites. We have spent over 40 years and
several trillions of dollars, and it just seems to get worse. Its not going to
happen.
Oh, it is quite possible, actually. You're simply making a mistake by assuming blacks have reached their full potential under these efforts. The system of racial preferences we have right now and its goal of "creating diversity" is not condusive to bringing blacks up to an equal level.
Since this system has flaws that prevent blacks from reaching their full potential, it isn't fair to judge blacks based on its efforts.
Ending affirmative action would make all us whites quite happy,
but it will destroy a lot of black America, and they know it. That's why
they fight tooth and nail to keep and expand it. But it will collapse--it
has to. The cost to keep it going is simply unsustainable.
It is all in the culture and the mentality. People fight tooth and nail because they have a belief of inherent inferiority; they can't achieve without special benefits.
This isn't actually true, but as long as our community subscribes to this mentality, we will go nowhere...or at least, not far enough.
It
is not due to a lack of opportunity or promotion that blacks aren't doing
well here.
You're right; its due to a mentality and a false system that perpetuates the belief of inherent inferiority and victimology, promoting values that are not condusive to overall success as a nation.
I'm sorry you belong to a racial group so inherently flawed, but
that's just the breaks. No amount of money is going to change that fact.
First, I'm perfectly fine with being black and I'm rpoud to be a Jamaican. You do not need to apologize about anything.
Secondly, I never said simply throwing money at this issue would change it. Its about a lot more than that.