...im surprised you dont get the point.
if he was assuming that his white neighbors could not commit crimes simply because they were white, then thats racist. what he meant though was that if it was an middle class (or higher) neighborhood, regardless of ethnic makeup, crime should be lower (and pointed out that oftentimes this is your stereotypical whitebread picket fence neighborhood).
and its not racist to observe the facts... minorities are not intrinsically more likely to commit crimes, however the financial demographic that many minorities are born into are more likely to commit crimes.
for example, according to my above website, blacks were more likely to have an act of violence committed AGAINST them (from living in a more or less homogenous neighborhood that is high crime) than whites.... if you think im racist against blacks, then wait. American indians are TWICE as likely as blacks to experience an act of violence.
and im only half white, the other half is an ethnicity that not many people in the world are happy with right now. but i grew up here, have a new englanders accent, love skiing and chowder, and grew up in a affluent area. if i had been born on the other side of the world, i probably would be much different, maybe even a little violent, despite my push-over personality haha.
