zrfdude,

You're being PC if you think race doesn't play a role. If it's strictly a socioeconomic question, please check the hard hit northern plains states and look at the poverty pockets. Notice the crime per thousand people is so low as to be safer than Quail Creek here in Oklahoma City. Why do poor blacks rape, rob, vandalize, etc. and the poor whites in those states just mentioned do not? Why can't you admit that mainstream black culture glorifies violence? Penny is right - the educated, middle-class blacks are a sub-culture...and that's sad. Simply pointing it out doesn't make one "racist." But what you're doing is, in fact, racist. We've got a long way to go in this country regarding race relations and throwing off the victim mentality in the black community has to be a priority. To deny the obvious is just bizarre.