Post Class, West, 4/25

Although it may be true that black people do commit more crimes than other races we must look at the reasoning for this instead of jumping to the conclusion that they commit more crimes because they are black. I don’t believe that there is any innate reason that blacks tend to commit more crimes than black but think that the reason that they commit more crimes is because of the way that blacks are treated by the rest of society. In the article Marked that we read in CMC 200 by Pager the inequalities of blacks trying to find jobs was discussed. Although I do not remember the exact details of the article basically the conclusion drawn was that whites who have created felonies have a better chance of getting hired than blacks who have not. Although there are laws in place that try and enforce equal opportunities for being hired and employers are not supposed to hire people based on their race, clearly these rules are not well enforced or followed. These laws are difficult to enforce because it cannot really be proven that race influences my employers hire their employees. I think that as long as these inequalities exist in society and blacks have more struggles than whites they will continue to commit more crimes. If they are forced to steal or sell drugs in order to make enough money to fulfill their basic needs because they cannot get jobs then that is what they will continue to do. I don’t think it is a matter of them being bad people or having lower morals but more of a matter of society making life to be more of a struggle for black people than white people.