Street robberies and you

[gejohnston]

23. strange thing about growing up in the sticks

where most of the people are white, I think white. Since the few criminals I ever come in contact with were also white, if someone says thug, I picture a white guy. When he used the term enemy, I pictured white thugs.

The few people of color where I grew up lived in the same neighborhood, same school, same everything. In the military it was more diverse, but more of the same. I have been in units where I was the only white guy. During the first Gulf War, found Texas NG units that were all Latino where everything was in Spanish.

You could be right about what the average white suburbanite thinks. I never took a poll, I never lived in segregated places, and the burbs are not the sticks. What does the average dark suburbanite think? How about poor whites, ghetto or trailer?

You are assuming white always equals suburbs. Suburb mostly equals white, but white equals suburbs a lot less than you think.
What the graph tells me is that
rich white kid gets rehab, rich black kid gets rehab half the time, jail the other half depending on region.
poor kid regardless of race, just goes to jail.