<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Well, seeing how Destin has less than 1% black population, I'm wondering what racism you could have encountered. And as for the whole point of personal experience vs. statistics, I think that personal experience is more credible, IF, and this is a big IF, it's coming from the right person, like M Two One, who is apparently a man of the world and has seen all different facets of society, or myself, having lived in the urban South in Mississippi, America's capitol of racism, as well as living in urban Detroit, the city with the highest crime rate in America. From my personal experience, black people may not always be convicted, nor will they always be classified as hate crimes, and I think XSV brings up a good point with that, but they commit hate crimes just as frequently as any other race. See:</div> Ok, so based on what you've personally seen, your assuming black people commit hate crimes just as frequent as other races. Besides what ever little personal experience you've had, what else is there to back what you believe in? What evidence do you have that supports what you proclaim? It's not like your proclaim is illegitmate, because I know there are some black people that are just as ignorant as anybody, but there aren't really any facts that prove to me black people commit as many hate crimes as whites.
I'm going to sidestep the race issue, and just categorize a group of people attacking and beating up another group of people as a-holes. Every race has a group of aholes and those aholes often times are used to misrepresent an entire race. Reading through the posts on here, a lot of people are speaking from personal experience and one needs to respect that. However, I don't think it's productive to debate why the media twists a story one way versus the other. The media does what it does to create drama and draw in viewership. There's no doubt the media has double standards and you're going to base your standards on your own personal experience. The bottomline though, is everyone who has had an opinion has experienced some form of racism, or what I like to call aholism. We've all shared a bad experience and no one liked it so how do we progress from it?
