# also makes a good point that the situation in the US seems to be based on power rather than race.

Poverty drug problems and associated crime, place a large number of black people as the "underclass" which exists in most developed Western countries. In Scotland poor urban whites are that underclass, living in atrocious high rise ghettos, they are a city within a city and a large percentage are jobless, drug addicted and "known to the police".

Looking for someone to blame?.....don't blame the message boys...blame the system and those who benefit from it, "liberals" and conservatives.