Can’t really blame media for racial stereotypes. You can certainly blame many of them for being ignorant, stupid, socialist, intolerant, biased, hateful, and egotists, but I wouldn’t call them racist.

What is it that people can’t take the truth? if you walk around with your pants down to your butt crack I want the description to be assigned to those whom do that so be it if they are Black.

I think stereotypes come from some sort of fact. Its just that some don’t want to admit it or are embarrassed to. Being Italian, i can tell you first hand the stereotypes, but it doesn’t bother me. All Italians have a mustache: Super Mario Bros. and every generic pizza box. Or we all love the Godfather movies. Get over yourselves people.

One more thing i forgot: is there a way to post topics that the “audience” has in mind? Thanks Post-Disp.

i am also italian and i can say, at least concerning me, the stinky thing is true. i try not to wear deodorant on days when i don’t plan on doing much.(i hear it might not be very good for your body) i figure showering everyday should keep me not smelling, lots of my friends do this and they don’t smell. not me, i’m just stinky.

The simple fact is this: Blacks commit most violent crime. Further, black criminals frequently choose whites as their victims. Indeed, for the vast majority of whites that have been victims of violent crime, blacks have been the attackers, for almost all inter-racial violent crime is black-on-white.

I am Shawnee Indian, Indians are stereotyped as being drunken bead, and quilt makers. We are seldom mentioned in the news. However every commercial or news story that is is on TV must show 2 Blacks for every 3 whites, despite the fact that Whites outnumber the Blacks 13 to 1. The media must be PC, at all costs.

Stereotyping can be good. If I knock on your door If I knock on your door for a week wearing my warrior head dress and punch you in the nose each time. Then, another Indian shows up with a warrior headdress and knocks on the door, would you open it?

I have had fun with stereotyping. I built a company with one employee to become the largest residential real estate developer in Alaska. I called one of subcontractes and applied on the phone to be a framing foreman for him. He had an ad in the paper. I told him I was a Shawmee Indian and had experience. He said the job was already filled.

Later that day I went to look at what he was doing and why the work wasn’t progressing. His excuse, was that he couldn’t find a framing foreman! I asked when he was going to find one. He said he didn’t know. I fired his company on the spot. I took it over, my Construction Superintendent hired all his employess and everybody was happy except the nut who wouldn’t hire minorities…specifically a Shawnee Indian.

Remember when Bill Clinton promised a telephone to all Indians trying to get their vote. I applied for one, and was told that It would be shipped on November 28th. I know the snail mail is slow, but over 10 years to get here????

Maybe the Messiah will send me one. Who knows.

I know that no politician would promise me something that I won’t get. I will wait patiently.

Now let me explain something. Minorities are stereotyped as being inferior to the sterotypers, and cannot compete, so the Caucasians gave us a 10 percent advantage in contracts.

In government contracts, if a Caucasian bid $50 Million on a contract and I bid $54,999,999.99, I would get the job. Is that fair? I bid no government jobs. I couldn’t look my neighbors in the eye for ripping them off.

For Gawds sake I could have bid 10 percent LESS than a Caucasian company and still have made a huge profit.

I am not bragging I am just telling you factual stuff.

I had fun with the government, they sent me a form asking how many females I had emplyeed, and how many males.

I fired back, “Cite me a provision in the law that allows me to inspect the pubic area of employees and give me 30 days to inspect them, I have 1521 employees.” I never got another request from the feds about how many of each gender I had. LOL

Marci, early last month, Jean posted crime and punishment findings of criminologist Richard Rosenfeld (Expert weighs in on race, crime and punishment in the U.S.). Rosenfeld’s findings and other social studies about crime show: Poverty/lack of income is the number one social determinant of crime.

Sociologists like John Hipp note residents of poorer areas with limited resources have a higher rate of crime victims and criminal perpetrators.Community and social conditions supersede race. Hipp’s study noted a “greater overall inequality in the tract was associated with higher crime rates, particularly for violent types of crime.”
(Income Inequality, Race and Place: Does the Distribution of Race and Class Within Neighborhoods Affect Crime Rates? Criminology. August 2007. Vol. 45, Issue 3.)

I find it very telling that the blog entry by Mr. Moore and the article in the Suburban Journal on Darren Osbourn rail about the evils of “stereotypes” without ever defining what they mean by the term or providing a single concrete example.

The charge of stereotyping is one of the politically correct left’s most effective weapons in stifling debate. Defining the causes and effects of social problems is the first step in solving the issues. People accumulate knowledge based on experience. Those decrying stereotyping in others try to push the fantasy that we should live out each moment with our minds like a blank slate forgetting all lessons of the past.

Almost without fail when I hear someone accuse another of stereotyping, I can tell that the person is unwilling to engage in a legitimate debate on the underlying issues