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Maybe they carried the violent traumas of slavery from the South, which they reenacted with their children and peers, who reenacted it with their children and peers, which became part of their culture. Although of course we started out with the caveat that this was not about blacks being more violent than whites, and obviously it's more complicated than that.
Maybe they carried the violent traumas of slavery from the South, which they reenacted with their children and peers, who reenacted it with their children and peers, which became part of their culture. Although of course we started out with the caveat that this was not about blacks being more violent than whites, and obviously it's more complicated than that.
I stand by this. Black folks are not inherently more violent than white folks.
Caveat: if two black women are in a fist fight, run for cover.
Also, there's a way that it's self-perpetuating. Violent men don't make good partners, leading to boys from single-parent families who also don't make good partners. They had to stop mandatory jailing for domestic violence because black men were more likely to go back and kill the woman if they had been jailed. Pretty big disincentive to get married.
Very frequently two dudes who are fighting both welcome the fight being broken up as it creates a win-win scenario: nobody gets seriously injured, but both preserve their honor.
In the rarer occasion when women physically fight, theyтАЩre doing it because they want to harm the other person. This type of fight among males is simply outnumbered by the macho/honor fight.
Another factor has to do with the response to experiencing trauma, which often is addiction. That pretty much takes the dad out of the picture/workforce a lot of times.