Endurance Onslaught 6.0
Originally Posted by Divine
If you see statistics or actions and look for no deeper cause than the color of someone's skin then yes, that makes you racist.
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Cute, but that's not what hipo asked. He asked if people cite FBI crime statistic that relate to afro-americans, does that make those people racist? He asked a question about frustrations (or fears) being justified with respect to statistics.

He's making a point about profiling. If you're a woman, walking down the street at night, and you see a group of young men walking towards you from the opposite direction, are you not justified in feeling uncomfortable and crossing to the other side of the street? That's profiling, and there's nothing wrong with it. Profiling is simply making a judgement about someone based on the group they belong to. There's informed profiling, and then there's uninformed profiling.

There's a reason why, when a call goes over the radio that a black man's been killed, that the police will stop any and all black men they see jogging in the area - The reason isn't systemic racism. When people kill, the tend to kill people of their own race. Your suspect is overwhelmingly likely to be black. This is informed profiling.

This is the point that hipo's making. He's not suggesting that there's nothing else you need to look at other than race. He's not suggesting that the 'cause' is race. He's just saying there are certain statistical realities and these should (and do) play a part in our decision-making and how we make sense of the world.