It's really unfortunate when people view millions of people who happen to belong to a minority group as some sort of monolith.
I don't. But let's try and rationalize something here...
Asians perform better in school than other American groups. To say that All Asians perform better in school would be a fallacy. To say that Asians
generally perform better than the rest is an actual fact. Is that suddenly racist?
Blacks commit more murders than any other group. To paint blacks as a violent group would be generally racist and is far from the truth as we're basically talking about a small subset of disadvantaged urban males that commit these crimes. But, at the end of the day, it's a fact that members of the black community commit far more murders per capita than any other "racial" group in America.
Now let's swing back to the school performance. Would you regard Asians performing better as genetic? It's not impossible although you'd be considered a racist for doing so and we have no knowledge to support such a conclusion. But don't people with high IQs produce children with higher IQs than those with low IQs? Would it not be almost a guarantee that a couple with an average IQ of about 80 is not likely to produce an individual with a far above average mental capacity, regardless of environment?
Now let's continue to shrink things down from an entire race and then families to the cultural part of the equation. If you think that members of the Asian American community are more likely to encourage scholastic aptitude and thus that's why they achieve better results than anyone, then couldn't you argue that, say, black America does the opposite or a poor job if their results are so much worse even when all the other factors are accounted for?
Again, not saying any of this shit is a correct answer or remotely what I believe, just that if you're going to study something and/or try to solve a problem, why not take a closer look into things in the first place? Just shutting down intellectual discourse as racism before you get to the root of the problem or find a solution seems utterly pointless. If you don't try to see that there
could be inherent cultural reasons as to why certain outcome occur, then you're never going to solve anything.
And I know I'll get blasted for all of this and some will take offense at even bringing up the idea of genetic aptitude when it comes to IQ, but tell me this, how many members of Asian countries were running in track and field at the last Olympics compared to black runners? If blacks are the best at basketball or track, does that make you racist for saying so? Or thereby implying that other groups are genetically terrible at such sports, etc? Likewise, if you can see the idiocy in trying to say that there's no
genetic differences between human beings in terms of athletic success, then you can't just shut down a discussion on
cultural reasons when it comes to other outcomes.
I've been assaulted twice in the Bay Area. By black men. I've witnessed assaults and even rounded up some of the culprits with the help of SFPD. All of the assailants were black despite black males making up roughly 3% of the San Francisco population. The vast majority of people I've seen enter or exit BART without tickets are black. The vast majority of people yelling regularly at the screen at the movie theater (something that admittedly happens rarely) have been black in my experience. Roughly 80% of the people walking around the building where I work in the dead of night are black and virtually all of the regulars hanging around the corner, homeless or not, are black. Every single time I've seen anyone illegally dump a couch or other furniture items off on a street corner around where I live, it's happened to have been someone that is black.
Does this say anything about Black America? Not in the slightest. It's a small subset of bad apples and of an entirely different socioeconomic status than Black America on the whole nor do I consider the actions of these people to be representative of their ethnic group (or whatever you want to call it) in the slightest. But the facts at the end of the day are that both through my own experiences and from actual crime records that blacks commit more crimes than the rest of the country. And you don't get to discredit my experiences or write off facts just because they don't gel with your own narrative.
To me, there is a
cultural problem in the black community leading to this sort of stuff which in turn leads to a heavier (and scared) police presence and all of the other ensuing issues that this thread is all about. If it were really just about poverty and discrimination (which I still believe is
most of the reason), then why aren't illegal immigrants from Mexico running around shooting 500 other people in Modesto or whatever? No white person of power is holding a cattle prod to make a black guy walk around San Francisco at 3 AM looking for trouble or get a neck tattoo that makes them become unemployable, etc. There is always a certain amount of personal responsibility involved.
That's about as much as I want to rant on this topic. Some of it will provoke the over-reactive, some of it might lead to an interesting discussion. Who knows.