Crime and race

Let me get something out of the way....that this is going to seriously aggravate certain ultra-liberals who think any mention of someone's race is automatically verboten. To any such people I say "Get bent and grow up".

So I'm watching the show "Bait Car" on TruTV. It's unintentionally funny as a steady parade of morons try ludicrous lies to explain how they were caught on tape stealing a car. Over the course of watching the show for a few weeks I noticed something...almost none of the suspects were White. I watched 3 shows in a row (thank you Tivo) and saw not one white suspect. What does this tell us? Either the producers of the show made a conscious decision to not show White suspects (which I seriously doubt) or Black/Hispanic people commit more crimes than other races do for some reason.

I also watch "Lockup" on MSNBC. It's a great series taped inside maximum security prisons. In every prison over the last 3 seasons the majority of prisoners were Black or Hispanic. The one exception to this was in Alaska's Spring Creek prison where Eskimos were a majority, which makes sense considering they are the majority population in much of Alaska. But in the other 49 states the numbers show something strange. Blacks are 12.8% of Americans according to 2008 numbers located here: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html.
Hispanics are 15.4% of Americans according to the same source. A quick skip to http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903755.html says Blacks make up 46.3 % of prisoners as of 2001...almost quadruple the average. Hispanics are 15.6% of prisoners so that makes sense. But Whites are 80.2 % and make up only 36.1% of prisoners.
Let's look at this objectively for a minute...how does a group that is not even 13% of the population represent 46+% of prison inmates? Some of you will wring your hands and say "the system is racist". While only a moron would insist there is no racism in our legal system, you still need to DO something illegal to be arrested and charged, and Black people are doing it far more often than other groups. Watch "Bait Car", "Lockup", or "Lockdown" on Discovery if you don't believe me. The $64,000 question is WHY?
I wish I knew, but I have a theory. I do NOT believe that Blacks are somehow incapable of obeying the law or they are inferior to others but the numbers don't lie. If you want my take on this (and if you've read this far I assume you do) it's cultural. It's the same reason some races are overly represented in colleges, like Asians. Their culture instills in them from birth that education and hard work are important. Jews have very similar mores, but for some reason a large number of Blacks and Hispanics do not value those things, in fact many Blacks will demean someone who is trying to better themselves, accusing them of acting White or being an Uncle Tom. Many prefer the quick, easy money of breaking the law so they end up in prison much more often. Again, why?
Is more police and more prisons the answer? Partly. What we need to do is change Dequon and Shaniqua's attitudes. Put down the bling and pick up a book. People like Bill Cosby and Chris Rock (who did a screamingly funny bit on the difference between Black people and niggers) have said this publicly but they are then criticized by self-appointed black "community leaders" like Sharpton who (despite his protestations) needs the status quo or he will become irrelevant to his followers. He's already irrelevant to anyone who isn't Black anyway.
So I ask again, what is the answer? I'm still not sure but I do know this...the answer MUST come from Blacks themselves. An entire generation is being locked away at a tremendous cost and many just don't seem to care. Those that do care are denigrated. It has to stop.