I'm not disputing the stats, but the cause of them. In the nature vs nurture debate, I'm firmly on the side of nurture.. and so, funnily enough, when you treat a segment of society like garbage for 400 years, they turn out crap. It doesn't shock me in the slightest.

To then see idiots spitting out (and I can't remember what image this was on) things like "Bill Cosby was great, so what's wrong with the rest of them"; well, what a stupid argument. It's all about opportunities, and I do firmly believe that blacks (and Latinos, Hispanics and any other non-white ethnicity) have significantly less opportunity to break from the mold in a country like the United States than the whites. They have little opportunity to improve, and have been kept down for so long.

I'm not interested in getting into a debate on the subject; that's simply my view from the outside. I could say the same about Aborigines in Australia, too. As a race, they've been poorly treated ever since the English rocked up and started hunting them for sport. From there, they were forced from their homes, rounded up in colonies and left basically to die. I don't blame them for being a bit bitter about their history.

But yeah, as I said, newsflash: you treat people like shit, they turn out shit. Sports and weather at 11.

As far as my US trip, no you're right; I was only in California, and I fully understand there's differences between there & the rest of the US. I've been to the US probably a dozen times, typically used to spend time in the midwest (Illinois primarily) but this trip was a fly in meet&greet primarily around San Jose.

If I do ever get down South though, you know I'll look y'all boys up