Comments by "oolong2" (@oolong2) on "United States Senator Explains What Driving While Black Is Really Like..." video.

It's pretty simple. Men are more aggressive and take more risks than women. It is not a systemic thing it is natural thing that is true in every culture around the world. You might as well ask why most football players, skaters, and dare devils, etc. are men. However what isn't true is that one race (given the same culture and environment) is more aggressive and violent than another. So there is no reason for the disparity that we have in the same country for one race or another. It is entirely due to economics and an ongoing systemic bias.
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roy romano You're basically asking a hypothetical. If you go to any densely populated poor area in the world you will find that the crime rate and violence is much higher than anywhere else. It doesn't matter if it's in the US, Russia, Ireland, UK, etc. Also If you go to any place in the world were economic inequality is high, you will also find increases in things like teen pregnancy, mental illness, violence, etc. Would you call that a culture issue or an economic issue?
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roy romano If "all you know is black culture" then you don't know much at all. If you don't understand the effects of poverty, socio-economics, and the studies on institutional bias then you don't have the tools to solve the problem. I'm not calling you a liar, I'm calling you uninformed. Simply wagging your finger at a community and telling them to stop listening to a type of music (which has been said about rock n roll, hip hop, heavy metal, etc.) or stop playing violent video games, or stop reading certain books has never helped any community in the history of mankind.... Creating economic opportunity, education, fixing systemic racism, reducing inequality, and creating functioning communities where civilians work with and trust the police. THAT is what solves problems. What you claim to have "seen". I have actually experienced. So it's not like I don't understand what you're saying or where you're coming from. It's just that your perspective is limited and you need to understand a lot more than you currently do.
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roy romano You can try to blame culture all you want, but blaming culture over and over is never going to magically make people "understand what you understand". From my perspective I also think that the world would be a better place if everyone could magically think like me, but that's not going to happen. However if you create an environment where people feel safe and secure. Where people have good homes, get good food/nutrition and don't have to struggle for survival every day. Where people don't feel like looked down upon or 2nd class to everyone else then you create an environment were people will naturally thrive. The millions of kids in suburbia (White and Black) who listen to hip hop music aren't turning into criminals because they're in an area where they are safe and have access to opportunities and education.
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roy romano Again... What a person wears or how a persons speaks has little bearing on whether they will be criminal or not. Do you somehow think if you go to the slums of Kenya or Tanzania that Africans wearing traditional garb don't commit crimes? Of course they do. That environment creates little opportunity for much else. You're looking at symptoms not causes.
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