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Originally Posted by VickyJ

It sounds an awful lot like you are blaming the crimes on racism in the first place? You assume far too much if this is what you were trying to say.

If not, I apologise.

I said it was one of many contributing factors that lead to higher than average crime rates among young black or asian youth. Nowhere did I say that those crime rates among this group was solely due to racism. Do you agree with the Wom that years of entrenched racism has nothing to do with it?