al-Hasani
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I did, you compared African Americans to African Suadis, you repeatedly make the assumption of State institutionalized racism, you studied California for a year yet never actually lived in the US, and you picked an argument with someone calling for Europe needing another Hitler (@Desert Fox ).
And you kept calling statistics as proof, problem is statistics are just numbers on a chart and you can't make assumptions about those statistics unless you lived a life that could lead up to those statistics.
I have lived in a white majority community, a black majority community, have gone to a school with a 40/60 black to white ratio (elementary, middle, and high school), and have lived my whole life in the US.
I was thrilled to move to the south because I thought it would be more open minded than the north and a sense of adventure. Found out that white racists are about the same ratio among whites in both the north and South, practically non-existent. However no matter how accepting I was and making friends with them, I have been called cracker, whipper and other racist slurs from fellow African American students and judged because of the color of my skin (lack of). To this day I never judged someone by their ethnicity or color of their skin and never will.
I can tell you that African Americans have created there own endless cycle of destruction, I have seen it and lived through it. As they said in school, If you're smart you're white, even African American's become outcasts to there own society because of this anti-white racism in the communities I've lived.
However, whites are moderately xenophobic and racist towards Middle Easterners and Muslims as individuals, fueled by Islamophobia mass media, but even this is low.
Racism towards African Americans is low, State institutionalized racism towards African Americans is ridiculous.
Yes, I wrote that the two communities (African-Americans and Afro-Arabs) have similar social problems which in my view and that of many historians and sociologists etc. can be traced back to their recent history (slavery and social, economic etc. oppression) to a great extent.
I wrote that certain American states, when looking at statistics, show signs of at least a small degree of direct or indirect state-instituzionalized racism or racial bias (as I also called it) in their justice system.
See my post number 69 in this thread and the statistics that the post contains.
I showed statistics and reports that confirm this. Moreover I always said that it's not as much about race as it is about economy and thus social status. But I would not rule out race as a factor.
What do you know about what I know about the US? Nothing. I would say that studying in the US for 1 year (California) and spending a lot of time with Americans of different backgrounds and visiting quite a few American states and cities would give me at least enough room to form my own conclusions. Aside from the reports on this issue that anyone can read if they want to.
I do not know why you are writing your own personal experiences here. Nobody has denied the fact that African-Americans can be racists (they surely can be just like any other people) as well or that many of their problems are self-made. If you bothered to read my posts this is actually what I have stated as well. I am not Black so I am not here to defend any African-Americans. I just disagreed with certain claims in that discussion and argued why that is.
Also I am not sure what Nazi you are talking about.