I wouldn't say totally useless, but they're to be taken with a a grai- er rather a cup of salt....
yes. i understand that.
however, reducing the sample by under-reporting of rapes does not necessarily result in a change in the data points. the best you can assume is that if all rapes were reported the sample would get bigger, but most likely the details would remain largely unchanged.
Vast conspiracy? No. Women, especially when dealing with rapes, don't want their name drug through mud and to have all the stigmas attached to being a rape victim associated with them. Rape is a power thing, not a sexual thing; so who knows the exact reasoning behind it. Maybe it's a psychological mechanism to feeling helpless or substandard, I don't know; and neither do you.
again this has no bearing on the subject.
"socio-economic status" is still unrelated to rape.
I'm not claiming that blacks don't commit a higher percentage of rapes, according to the stats, they do. I'm saying those stats are far from the word of god, and without understanding why these rapes are actually happening we don't stand a good chance of stopping them.
ending rape is not the subject at hand.
That's a bullshit co-op argument presented by right wing nuts jobs that don't want to face the actual problem in the USA. They (you) just want to continue on with their time old traditions and not be bothered by the 'dirty black people' and their 'completely self generated' problems. Do you seriously believe that the way black people are STILL treated today, and their lack of educational history as people, has nothing to do with the status the majority of black people share today?
no, the "socio-economic status" argument is an appeal to emotion, with no basis in reality, which is why i selected Rape as the target stat. Rape is not a function of poverty, oppression or poor eductation, and as such it eliminates the tired old "SES" canard.
Your grandparents affected you parents, and your parents affected you. When black peoples grandparents were drinking at a separate fountains, being called 'dirty niggers', getting lynched, and not having basic human rights, it probably affected they way they raised their kids, and so on, and so on.... The mentality of being called lesser than for centuries doesn't just 'go away' when white people decide to loosen the shackles.
and none of this makes men into rapists.
this is a raw appeal to emotion
Just going out on a limb here; but I'm guessing that when black people were trying not to be beat to death by white people in the 50's, sending your black son or daughter to university to break the terrible cycle of disparity (while fighting discrimination at the same time) wasn't probably high on the priority list. Even if black people did have the grades and determination, they often didn't have the means. Those values get passed down... education isn't important/attainable, white people are evil, etc. etc.
still an appeal to emotion which is irrelevant to the subject at hand, which is "why do blacks commit so many more rapes than their representation in the population could possibly account for?"
Today, it's easier for black people to go to school and white people aren't the sole contributor of 'black problems', but the ingrained thinking, and the years of discrimination and prejudice are hard to break through.
which stll doesnt answer "Why All The Rapes?"
we can assume that the source of the rapes is not genetic, that would be ridiculous, therefore it must be sociological.
asserting that "SES" is the cause of Rape Behaviour is also ridiculous.
that leaves only social norms, and a systemic problem within black society.
they have effectively segregated themselves from the rest of society, which does not have nearly the Rape Rate of the "Black Community" and thus the problem is not the "Black Race", or Whitey's Downpression" but something in their own "Black Culture" which give the message that rape is OK.
a casual perusal of any "Rap Videos will identify the cause readily.
women are considered Bitches and Hoes, treated as objects for the sexual gratification of the Black Elite (rappers) and thus, to become one of the "Black Elite" one must adopt their social norms. this inevitably results in a mindset which requires "Jocking The Bitches" and "Slapping The Hoes".
observe also the reverence with which pimps are viewed, and note further that pimps routinely brutalize their "Bitches" to keep them in line, on the corner, and "Getting That Cheddar"
when this is the ideal of masculinity and manhood, then clearly anything one wishes from a "Hoe" can be taken by force, whether it is money or pussy.
