What the hell are you on about? You need to go away and learn some facts as you are just wrong. The black and white minstrels was simply a show and what does that have to do with blacks committing more crime and doing worse at school? This is not a stereotype but a fact, therefore the rough stereotype is an exaggeration and generalisation of fact. Anyway, it is a stupid point to try to argue as every type of person has been enslaved and suppressed at some point so why are Africans so special?Ultratwinkie said:Yet those same pitfalls are because of the society's pitfalls. The idea of an uneducated, brutish black man stems from the days of slavery, and certain shows put on by white men painted with black paint. We took everything that has connotations with lower evolution, and applied it to a different group of people often for no actual reason. America had racism from the past, as did Europe and that is where the stereotypes stem from. They are almost never founded on truth, but what we want to believe is true for various reasons. When we take those beliefs, we tend to force the minority into such a tight space that the stereotype becomes reality. Its not founded in basic truth, its founded on subjective views of society (we made it a reality, a changing synthetic truth only held together by the will of the society). Even though people like to think racism is no longer a problem, its still there. The effects of the old days of racism is still around.
You keep saying statistics but fail to grasp what I am really saying. You say its a basic truth, I say its only a truth because of the way society still functions under the old ways of racism and human psychology. Statistics don't factor into it, its what lead to that result.
Offence at stereotypes is only taken when there is truth in them eg. basement dwelling nerds. From my experience this is not always true, but more often the not, it is for those who are into strange fads, hence why they get pissy when it is mentioned. If there was no truth in it, then people would laugh it off as being stupid rather then complaining.