[MD] subject / object logic

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
If you lived in the inner cities of Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, 
or other cities with large black populations you wouldn't be so glib 
in your attitude towards crime.

[Arlo]
So, the problem is the presence of "blacks"? Would you say that 
cities such as Auckland (New Zealand) or Reykjavik (Iceland), cities 
in those "socialist" countries that have so much more crime than the 
US, are safer or more dangerous than the US cities you cite? Are you 
saying that "crime" in the US, the evidence of the failure of 
"intellect", is really only a problem in largely black areas? Is it 
"blacks" in Auckland and Reykjavik that are committing all the crimes 
there? Or are "whites" committing crime in New Zealand because it is 
"socialist"?

On a tangent, a recent article in Time focused on the decline of Hip 
Hop sales, and the trend in rap to "clean up". It touches on 
capitalism, language and community. Check it out. 
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653639,00.html)