jschell wrote:
Because it suggests cause and effect.
So far, that would appear to be the more racist statement. Are smaller ethnic groups absolved of responsibility because they're not the majority? It is not racist (or anything else) to point out a fact. Period. Hypothesizing on the reason may (or may not) have racist motivations. From personal experience, I can give you this tidbit: when I was growing up, no one would care to associate with a person who steals/robs/mugs. This has become quite acceptable in a number of cultures, which coincidentally, happen to be observable as having racial commonality. Call it cultural. Call it economic. Make up any excuse you care to, but theft is theft, and a community/culture that's "OK with that" is defective (to put it mildly) and unacceptable if one is a rational human being who wishes to live in a civil society. Where I live, were one to leave their bicycle out overnight (locked) in a publicly accessible location, one would not be surprised to find it missing by morning. And now I'll say what you've been hoping to say (a point of attack): the black teensride East, two per bike, and return West, one per bike. Do the math . . .
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