I must add that my dealings with blacks have not been any problem. Those I know personally are not that much different from me or my white acquaintances. Guys I play ball with, folks I ran against when I was a semi-serious runner, the neighbors a few houses down the street, people I worked with and worked for (as a real estate agent, handling their buying and selling needs) and I get along fine. But discussions of a racial nature are few and far between; maybe that’s one reason we get along so well.
Yes, that is the thing.
People may accuse me of being racist by pointing out these things (and they will...it is how they roll. It is also why they are so effective in shutting down dissent...being called a racist is about the worst thing there is for an American) but I have two major reasons as a defense against that slander:
First, it is factual data. I am not playing fast and loose with the data (and neither is Heather MacDonald, though they have tarred her with every epithet under the sun) Facts are an absolute defense.
Second, of those six percent of the population that are black men, I readily point out that the 3-5 men who make up that six men out of every 100 US citizens are likely law abiding men who are working trying to make a living, sometimes in difficult places. They are no more criminal than anyone else, but are lumped in due to their skin color. And lumped in, I might add, not by me, but most of the time by the very people who profess to be their allies.