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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
Crime rates in general were pretty low up until the 60s. In the time that they started rising since, it's not unsurprising that the biggest surge would be amongst the community that was most marginalized at the time.
And while the lingering effects of slavery are certainly debatable, it's also true that the descendants of slave populations across the Americas experience greater than average rates of poverty, crime, and other social ills.
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All true. But the dramatic rise in crime with both blacks and whites still hasn't been accounted for and the increase in crime among blacks were much higher than among whites, same with single parenthood. Blacks always had a higher rate than whites, but their numbers exploded while whites just increased a lot.
If we were to agree(which we do) that blacks in America always had the bad hand, then we must also agree the increase in crime after the 60s has very little to do with that hand.