I don't fully understand racism. It seems to me that both liberals and conservatives act in ways that today people would call racist. Where do wealthy liberals and wealthy conservatives live? As far away from black neighborhoods as possible. They will tell you it is not racist to view crime statistics and move to the safest neighborhood they can find. I would agree. We sold our home a few days ago and are moving ten miles away. The only reason we are moving is because this neighborhood is not safe. Three murders in the last year and several other shootings, along with a steady flow of drug addicts wandering through the neighborhood during the night. All the murders involved black victims and black suspects. A stabbing death involved two Hispanic men. From what I can see, white men and women make up the majority of the heroin addicts. When I watch the morning news, and they open with the overnight violent crime updates, it seems that in the two years we lived here, Hispanics are suspects in 40% of violent crimes, blacks are suspects in 40% of violent crimes, and whites are suspects in 20% of violent crimes. In addition, over 90% of violent crimes are committed in poor neighborhoods. Based only on those statistics, we purchased a new home in the suburbs that has HOA fees, homes costing over $115k more than the home we sold, few, if any violent crimes in the last two years, and coincidentally, no poor people, no transients, fewer heroin addicts, and much less racial diversity. If living in this safe neighborhood makes me a racist, I'm ok with that. If that is how we are defining racist, then maybe I am one because I made a decision to move myself and my wife base on crime statistics that included race as a factor.
It seems that Donald Trump is pushing similar buttons by even discussing his wall and deporting illegal immigrants that are primarily from Mexico and Central America. Liberals are saying it is racist to deport illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America because to do so means you are out looking primarily for people who look like they are from Mexico and Central America. Meaning you are profiling, which somehow is no longer intelligent common sense policing, but rather racist. So if you are looking for illegal immigrants coming from Mexico, you are required to look at equal numbers of whites and blacks and Hispanics and Asians during the course of your investigations. You can't just do a sweep in a neighborhood known for housing illegal immigrants because all of those illegal immigrants will be from Mexico. You should have spent equal time in the suburbs, stopping wealthy white people and asking them for proof of citizenship, if you want to be fair. Otherwise you are a racist, according to current standards. My question is; aren't all of us racists by current standards?
. I am not afraid to support the person I will vote for . And it is not Hilary I can tell you that.
