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| If an individual who is a minority commits a crime is that group that he represents stigmatized more as a whole than the mainstream culture. For example: A serial killer may generally be White, but all white people are not feared as potential serial killers. On the other hand, A black person selling drugs or robs people....the group that he represents easily gets stigmatized and feared because of some individuals. |
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The propensity of the Herd to try and take out the Maverick. |
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We all have a choice to choose what we will do and won't do. No matter what race you are. My
African American parents/grandparents generation chose the latter and worked hard, had good values,
accomplished much. Education in some cases may have not been attainable due to financial reasons,
etc. And with some they attained degrees with upstanding high honored degrees whether society
accepted it or not, but they accomplished it anyway. Back then we had less and attained much more.
Drugs have destroyed the entire fabric in this society. Drugs have been a destructive lure for the
poor communities and the well off as well. In the poor communities drugs are distributed quite
lavishly and freely with no problem by non-minorities who do not spend 1 hour in jail when all the
while the little/middle man (some knew better, some did not) he receives a long sentence. Some who
are uninformed and uneducated fall prey to this lure for a better life out of desperation and some
fall for it because they want what everybody else has (love for material things and money. There
are a lot of well off African American families in 2008 and their children get everything they want
at home materially and financially and still they get into trouble with drugs). Some fall for it
because the fast life is more appealing to them. Who's to blame the system? The minorities? A
little bit of both. Safeguarding your children, Teaching Family values, Other options to decide
from, Self Esteem who knows. How about sending the drugs back from whence they came, that might help
some of our problems you think? |
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Yeah its only natural for groups to feel afraid or threatened by others not like them or not
following the mainstream norm but it can get seriously out of hand like in Germany in the inter-war
and war period |
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Members of visible minority groups are often stigmatized when it comes to crimes committed by others
associated with these communities. There are at least two reasons for this. First, the media has a
tendency to categorize people according to their ethnic or racial background, even when providing
such information may not be key to a given news item. The only time that the perpetrator's ethnic,
racial or religious background is important to note is if he/she is still on the run and these
identifying features help to track down the individual, or if the crime that has been committed is
based on race, ethnicity or religion.
The second reason why members of a minority group tend to be stigmatized has to do with natural
human reactions to people who are seen as "different" or foreign. If a crime is committed by a 23
year old white male, then the majority of the American population would not suddenly fear all white
men in their early twenties, primarily because they are in regular contact with them and realize
that they are no more inclined to criminal activity than others. On the other hand, if a member of a
visible minority group commits the same crime, the majority population may have too little personal
contact with others in this community to realize that one person's transgressions do not reflect the
attitudes of others in that group. |
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If so, it is a political must and for ever it shall be. In post slavery days, black slaves were
given cocaine to speed up their work productivity, as tired as they were during cheap labor days.
Until they became to hype, that came to a fast halt. Then again in the 50's and sixties drugs
flooded their communities, No matter how many African American gangsters you can name, Vietnam was a
drug war. Heroin doesn't grow in Harlem, Chronic is not grown in Compton, and there are no automatic
gun factories in Washington D.C., the question remains, why must Minorities be stigmatized-- to what
avail? |
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They may be, but is it without merit? In your example, look at the numbers. The numbers of blacks
involved in drug crimes are much higher (not in percentage, but in sheer numbers) than those of
serial killers. If a Latino is working some where, he or she may be thought of as an illegal
because of the sheer numbers of illegals that are hispanic. Is that racist? Not sure. However it
is not a fictitious representation. |
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Here's an interesting thing....In the US, if you are white, you are automatically considered to be
an elitist, a racist and a privileged (born with a silver spoon) whatever... Now, I am white......I
am also a minority (Saumi, a Laplander) and there aren't that many in the whole world. I've like
MOST other white people, had to work for everything I have. Yet I'm treated as an elitist, racist
(which I'm not) and treated as though everything was just given to me, which is bull, by the so
called minorities blacks and hispanics which number in the hundreds of millions in the world, and
makes them no minority at all. What do you say to that? |
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20 May 2008 19:56
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