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Why is any negative discussion that hits on anything near race viewed as racist.?

A friend and I were doing a paper for psychology on the correlation of crime and music. Our assignment was to show a behavioral correlation, and express if we thought the correlation accurately showed a cause and effect. We used a statistic done by a university showing what people listened to and then compared those groups to the crime report posted by the department of justice. When discussing the correlation I mentioned that it could mean nothing. Rap came up as the music that most criminal offenders listened to in most of our categories. However since in those same categories black people, followed by people under 25 were the top offenders it could just mean that young black people, for whatever reason, tended to commit those crimes and not that rap influenced them to commit the crimes. My friend ( who is black ) said that was racist as hell to say, but I still don't see it that way. Sorry to offend Toby, but I think this view is narrow minded.Why is it that since it has to do with race it is automatically viewed negatively to say. If I stated that the correlation showing Spanish music listeners were unlikely to commit a crime could mean nothing since only 2% of the crime committed in the US is committed by Hispanics it would not be viewed as negative. So what since it is not positive it is racist? In all I think most people viewed my paper as a bit racist, and only because it showed a negative statistic about blacks. This disturbs me. If I was trying to knock the black community I would have left out the parts that most crimes against children under 10, violence against family members, ect. are committed by white people. Anyway what I want to know is why is it that if you say something negative about a race other then your own you are racist, even if it is statistically true. After all no one said anything about me stating the dirty deeds of other whites, or for that matter any other music besides rap!

Update:

Guess you missed the friend part there guy.I would appreciate future answers to show consideration, and not be hateful remarks. Both white and blacks told me the paper was racist.

Update 2:

As for denial of crime and music statistics couldn't find the site again for the music, but the percentage was in the low to mid 30's for white people listening to rap. For the crime this is the government site I got my information off of http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm so yes plenty of data to go off of. Being historically inaccurate? The only civilizations that by any means were up to the times standards were the Kush and the Nubians both of which did not last that long in comparison to others. Closing your eyes just because the facts are not in your favor does not change them. This is the thing I am talking about.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The PC crowd doesn't like to listen to facts and statistics, they just stick their fingers in their ears and scream "RACIST!" to anyone who doesn't agree with them.

  • MindyM
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Well, you have to become a student of history -- when you see what people have gone through and all the lies that have been told and all the negativity that people have dealt with for hundreds an hundreds of years, then (and I'm not trying to sound mean) you might understand where the sensitivity comes from.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This is why psychology majors get such a bad rep:IT ISN'T A SCIENCE

    If you had made an effort you would've found:

    1.Rap music has a mostly white audience

    2.There are not even enough black criminals to suggest blacks are genetically criminal

    3.Criminals are not neurologically geared the same as aggresive normal people

    EDIT:I see you didn't research african civilizations. African civilizations(songhai, ghana, etc) lasted way longer than most. If they weren't important why did colonialist try to take credit for them?(and sometimes still do today) As for only 30% of whites listening to hip hop that still means hip hop is white supported

  • 1 decade ago

    From what I gathered your study showed that the people who listened to rap were more likely to commit crimes.

    But who says only black people listen to rap. That was an assumption (kinda a racist one too)for your friend to assume only black people listen to rap. Not to mention most of the "crimes" they talk about are innocent possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

    You should look at the statistics for serial killers.

    Middle aged white male

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "Black people have not been in a civilized environment until relatively recently. They needed aggressive genes to survive in the jungles and hostile environments. Other cultures on the other hand have been building cities and living in them for thousands of years though, and so the more aggressive characters have been killed or imprisoned, thus not having as many children. So the majority of those cultures are fairly non-aggressive"

    These are your words. Not only are they false, they display a general lack of knowledge on your part, both about the history of black people and the pace of human evolution.

    If that is the "for whatever reason" part that you referred to in your question, it's not surprising that your peers found your paper to be ridiculous.

    Edit- Listen to yourself. You're saying that black people are born with an inherent tendencies to commit violent acts. Your claims of the black people being born inferior makes you the textbook definition of a racist. You can stay with the company of flawed anthropologists of the 19th century and be a joke in a world where race no longer has scientific merit or abandon your prejudices and use your brain instead of letting statistics do it for you. Thinking like yours is what caused "scientists" to destroy 12 FEET of evidence when they found that the ruins of Great Zimbabwe were built by black people. They found solace in their superiority complexes, so much so that they could not face the truth. If you only seek your truth you will ALWAYS find it.

  • Tara
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    i don't think you're racist. i think you're just casting black people in a bad light something i don't think anyone, especially a non-black person should do.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's only that way when it concerns non whites. A person of any race, white included, can tear the white race apart looking for negatives and only be seen as enlightened. A person of any race that says something negative about non whites is either a racist or a self hater. It isn't about facts, it's about political correctness and the oppression of whites that is 'hidden' in plain sight. I think some people call it privilege, lol. I'm tired of being 'privileged'.

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