Explaining Some Parts of My Previous Post

What I was trying to get at, whether I accomplished it or not, was that Heston was not making a racist statement. It is a fact that the majority of crime and gun related death happens in urban environments

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/viocrm.txt

*Central cities, particularly those with populations between 250,000 and 499,999, have the highest per capita rates of violent crime.

To pick a case city, Detroit, which is also shown in the film, these are the demographics-

Detroit is the most violent city in America according to Forbes.

Infoplease.com yielded these statistics:

81.6% Minority
26.1% Below Poverty Line

These are facts from well respected web sources.

Heston was forced to back off his statement to be politically correct. He is a celebrity where I am not, thus I can be blunt and finish what he was getting at.

Now another point brought up was that there will be poverty no matter what ethnicity a person is, well that is not the exact chemical formula for crime. This is what I believe to be the ingredients.

Poverty+HIGH DENSITY=crime, now there are more specialized forms such as (Poverty+Density)X racial tensions=crime^2. By racial tensions, I referring to large gang areas such as Los Angeles ect. Some of the poorest people in America live in backwoods Alabama and the Ozarks, they are the poorest of the poor, but the fact is, they do not live in a dense enough population to create crime, lets go back to the equation. Poverty+density=crime, if you take density out of the equation, it changes to this, Poverty+low density=uneducated, unhealthy, and overall terrible living conditions, worse than that of the inner city. So we can clearly see that crime is created by 2 factors not having anything directly related to minorities (poverty and high density), where minorities do play in, is that they are the most likely to be in such a scenario, so as Ive said, I do not blame minorities, I blame the equation, and I believe Heston was going to get at the same thing.

My defense of Heston is only to show he was probably not going to say something blatantly racist, but what he was getting at is poverty itself, and statistics show that minorities make up the majority of inner city populations and due to the close quarters with high density population under the poverty line, this leads to violent crime as is shown in Detroit

It is a sad fact that minorities are more likely to live in poverty, and is hopefully something that America can progress on, and fix. Since slavery was ended, the quality of life for minorities has steadily increased and hopefully will continue to show this trend.