
People don’t understand the impact of systemic poverty, the war on drugs, and the dissolution of black communities under the police state. Instead they just decide to be racist. Notice how natives and Hawaiians have higher rates too. It’s because they are subject to systematic injustice which leaves them impoverished.
Importing crack into black communities in the 80’s and treating it with 10x the severity of coke possession and arresting parents and turning the now-parentless children into drug lords that run the corner created a self-sustaining prison pipeline that leads to significantly socioeconomic strife within black communities. It’s inherited trauma.
It's not something intrinsic to black people. There are historical reasons why this is an issue in the united states, why urban ghettos developed after the civil war, how certain groups of people were uprooted, deprived of generational wealth, kept away from wealth and success with deliberate legal policies, jim crow, segregation, discrimination - openly until a few short decades ago and the legacy of all of that endures in the facts on the ground. Simply declaring legal equality was not a magic
White impoverished communities tend to be less urban and were not systematically targeted by police as part of the war on drugs. They were also not subject to ghettoization, redlining, and systemic racial discrimination. The war on drugs created generational disruption of black families and lessened job access to black communities due to legal discrimination against felons, thus encouraging the development of gangs.
These disparities simply exist in every single country. You can look in Denmark, Germany, etc. crime rate by nationality reports and you’ll find the same thing every time. To be frank, you will always make an excuse for “minorities”. You’ll blame everything but them. Did the Irish and Italians not undergo systematic discrimination in America? The problem is you see an issue that persists for decades and blame the “system” because it’s an easy and low effort to do.
I can’t believe African immigrants in European countries would be poorer subject to racism! Crazy concept. The Irish and Italians were famously involved in crime you dingus. Irish gangs? The Italian mafia? They *stopped* being as involved in crime when they stopped being systematically discriminated against because black migrants were coming into northern cities and being targeted instead.