Hodgetwins tackle the disparity between Black incarceration rates (12.2% population vs. 38% jail share) and crime statistics, debating whether systemic racism or individual criminal behavior drives these numbers. One speaker cites 2020 census data and Uniform Crime Reports to argue that higher arrest rates reflect specific subcultures rather than race, while the other challenges this by questioning if White incarceration figures (58% of jail population) imply similar biases. Ultimately, the dialogue exposes the tension between attributing mass imprisonment to structural injustice versus personal lawbreaking, forcing listeners to confront whether "Black" and "criminal" are inextricably linked or distinct concepts. [Automatically generated summary]
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Explaining the Disparity00:01:27
The Bureau of Prison Statistics from last month, 38.3% of our current inmate population is black.
But according to the 2020 census data, only 12.2 of our national population is black.
So if you don't believe in white privilege, how do you explain this disparity?
So why are they in jail?
It has been this way for years, since the 90s.
Why do people go to jail?
Why are black people in jail at higher rates than white people?
That's the question, right?
Maybe because they commit more crimes than white people.
But that's not true.
It actually is.
They do.
So every independent analysis shows that blacks have committed a disproportionate amount of crime.
No one wants to say it out loud, but it's true.
In fact, in New York, 52% of murders are committed by blacks, 40 plus percent of arson, 60 plus percent of drug deals.
And so the question you should really be asking is what drives them to commit crimes?
That's the question, right?
The real question is, and maybe I can ask you, what percentage of blacks are raised with two parents from the home?
So actually, according to the Uniform Crime Report for 2019, black or African-American individuals committed only about 1 million crimes, while white people committed about 4 million.
But that's a proportion.
How about the proportion?
There's a lot more white people than black people in the United States.
It's a 60% white country and a 14% black country.
So you just proved my point.
Poor little white girl, what happened to your white privilege?
Yeah, you should have.
What Drives Crime Rates00:04:16
You're doing this.
I mean, what you said, I mean, you just proved to everybody there's no such thing as white privilege because look how dumb you are.
No, you're not dumb.
You're ignorant.
You don't know.
You think just because you know how to read and you know how to interpret data, that makes you a statistician.
You're not a statistician.
Yeah.
So you, it's sad that this girl actually believed black people are in jail because they're black.
What's the penal code for that?
I could see if this was 1920.
I'm sure a lot of that was going around.
Yeah, people was in jail for being black.
Yeah.
Listening to a white girl, having sex with a white woman, dating a white woman.
Yeah.
That used to be true, but now they're...
Breaking from a white-only waterfall.
I'm sure a lot of that was done, but that's not the country we live in.
Her heart's in the right place, though, man.
She's a good woman, man.
No, she.
Her heart's not in the right place.
Yes.
No, she's a Democrat.
No, she's in the right place, man.
No, she just, she, she feels for black people, man.
She thinks these black people are in jail for being black.
At least her heart's in the right place, man.
She's, I don't think she's racist.
She pointed out the fact that white people commit more crime, right?
That's because the majority of this country is white, right?
What's the percentage of white people in jail?
I just looked it up.
What is it?
Remember now, you're not a statistician now.
Well, I'm just going by what's here.
I'm being facetious.
38% of the people in jail is black.
Like she said, 12% of the population.
Violent ass motherfucker.
White people, 58% of the population in jail is white.
58%.
Now, just because there's more white people in jail, does that mean they're more violent than black people?
Yeah.
Or do they commit, you know, on average, more, statistically speaking, more crimes than black people?
Yeah.
So, but we're using your logic against you.
Just because 38% of black people is in jail, even though it's 12% of the population, doesn't mean they're just being thrown in there for the race.
Just like it doesn't mean just because there's 58% of the population in jail is white, that means they commit more crimes.
No, it's based on the demographic of this country.
12% of the population is black.
6% is white.
That's why that's why white people in jail.
Not because they're more violent than any other race.
Because they broke the law.
That's why anybody's in jail.
It's because they broke the law.
It has nothing to do with the race.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with race, man.
If we really wanted to get down to if this country is really systemically racist, you know, people, statisticians, mathematicians will sit down and go over all the statistics and look at for every person that's in jail, what crime did they commit and compare it to other races.
Then and then and only then will you know why they're in the jail.
But I'm guaranteeing you, they're in the jail, not for being black, they're in jail for being niggas.
That's why they're in jail.
And being black versus being a nigga is totally two different things.
Chris Rock, great black philosopher.
He said this long ago.
Red Fox, great black philosopher.
He said this a long time ago.
Yeah.
So I want to say something else, but it totally slipped my mind.
I hate when I do this.
You know why you forgot it, right?
Why?
Because you're black.
You're inferior.
That's why.
Man, shut up.
Black people are forgetful.
Don't break the law now.
You want to go to jail.
I want that.
What was I going to say?
Three hours later.
All right, I remember now.
All right.
So 58% of the people in prison in America is white.
Now, it's what, 6% white?
Yeah, something like that.
So white people commit in proportion to the makeup of the population of this country.
They break crimes proportion to how many white people is in the country.
Black people, these niggas is like ambitious when it comes to crime.