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The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch

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Re: The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch

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I have no idea what you mean by this comment. Or especially what ethnicity has to do with any of it.

I don't know what ethnicity has to do with it either. In the US, black skin is associated with the socially constructed term 'race'. What I mean by this is that in the US, carrying guns has been something that whites do much more often than blacks. Historically, when blacks try to exercise their rights to carry weapons, as the Black Panthers did in the 1960s, white politicians passed laws to take those rights away, l…

Yes, I’m aware of the history of race relations in the United States. I just wasn’t clear on why you would bring it up or what it had to do with the prior conversation.

Re: The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what ethnicity has to do with it either. In the US, black skin is associated with the socially constructed term 'race'. What I mean by this is that in the US, carrying guns has been something that whites do much more often than blacks. Historically, when blacks try to exercise their rights to carry weapons, as the Black Panthers did in the 1960s, white politicians passed laws to take those rights away, l…

Yes, I’m aware of the history of race relations in the United States. I just wasn’t clear on why you would bring it up or what it had to do with the prior conversation.

Do African-Americans living in rural areas have the same "rural mindset" which causes them to fear crowds and carry concealed weapons when visiting urban areas?

If yes, do you have any evidence? If no, is it really a "rural mindset"?

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