"It seems to me that members of every race has been socialized to accept violence against individuals and groups of people who are them and not them. I'm not sure that White people as a group are now or have been in the past more violent than non-White people. And I'm not interested in developing measures or exerting energy to test that hypothesis."

Basically what Azizi states here is sums up my views regarding this thread ... but I will add poverty wherever it exists incites frustration, hoplessness and from that violence. Yes, it is the poor (of all nations of the world)that makes up the majority of fighting ranks of all arimies.

But the opportunities are there in your country (U.S.) to break out of that culture, if there is a strong will to ... is there also a fear for many of these people to break out of that culture?

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