Way to be making excuses for criminals. I've seen the same bullshit in my American Ethnicity class: blacks are disadvantaged, they've been discriminated against which makes 'em commit more crime, they live in the inner-city, they have no opportunities, crime is their way of surviving, etc.
It's just another tactic by liberal-leaning people to make normal white people feel bad. It's a guilt trip. Whites have no more hand in the criminal propensity of black people than black people have in making white people white.
The liberal types - the ones who claim to be so enlightened on all social issues - are the ones who make distinctions based on race and color. For some reason, it's always an issue. They see black people undeservedly in jail - such as MTA - and then they see the evil white folk who deserve to be in jail for just being white. Any normal person sees criminals as criminals; no color, no race, no sex. They did something wrong, so they're in jail. Besides, if everyone who did something illegal was in jail, there'd be no one on the outside.