Your point isn't racist; you are just stating what official figures reflect. Prison populations don't reflect the national demographic. A greater proportion of men are incarcerated than women. A greater proportion of younger men than older men. And a greater proportion of black men than white men.
There is one question which is fundamentally more important than any other comment that could be made on this. That question is "Why?"
There's nothing about the colour of one's skin that makes someone genetically prone to crime. But yet more black people are in prison. So what is it? It can only really be environmental. People commit crime because it's the easiest way of getting what they want. For much of society, the easiest thing is to go out and earn it. What is it about our society that is denying people that option and making them consider the wrong choice?
If I had the answers, I'd probably be in a government think tank. But it doesn't take the Brain of Britain to see that different races of people are treated differently, and some viewed with hostility and suspicion. You can legalise equality but you can't change the human instinct to tribalise, and - by extension - to exclude.
Punishing people yet again for their own exclusion (and the knock-on effects from this) should be a source of national shame.
I'm not unaware, by the way, that my liberal utopia wouldn't work. My friends point this out at every opportunity. They say people are mean and not to be trusted. I know they are right but I don't want to live in that world just yet, if ever.
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Your point isn't racist; you are just stating what official figures reflect. Prison populations don't reflect the national demographic. A greater proportion of men are incarcerated than women. A greater proportion of younger men than older men. And a greater proportion of black men than white men.
There is one question which is fundamentally more important than any other comment that could be made on this. That question is "Why?"
There's nothing about the colour of one's skin that makes someone genetically prone to crime. But yet more black people are in prison. So what is it? It can only really be environmental. People commit crime because it's the easiest way of getting what they want. For much of society, the easiest thing is to go out and earn it. What is it about our society that is denying people that option and making them consider the wrong choice?
If I had the answers, I'd probably be in a government think tank. But it doesn't take the Brain of Britain to see that different races of people are treated differently, and some viewed with hostility and suspicion. You can legalise equality but you can't change the human instinct to tribalise, and - by extension - to exclude.
Punishing people yet again for their own exclusion (and the knock-on effects from this) should be a source of national shame.
I'm not unaware, by the way, that my liberal utopia wouldn't work. My friends point this out at every opportunity. They say people are mean and not to be trusted. I know they are right but I don't want to live in that world just yet, if ever.
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I agree its the enviroment but anyone can work hard enough to move location even if it takes a long time. I do agree with you though.