Posted on 08/24/2014 2:28:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
And yet we keep hearing about Black-on-Black crime because it fits the false media narrative.
The truth? As the largest racial group, Whites commit the majority of crimes in America. In particular, Whites are responsible for the vast majority of violent crimes. With respect to aggravated assault, Whites led Blacks 2-1 in arrests; in forcible-rape cases, Whites led all racial and ethnic groups by more than 2-1. And in larceny theft, Whites led Blacks, again, more than 2-1.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2012/04/whiteonwhite_crime_it_goes_against_the_false_media_narrative.2.html
Given this mathematical truth, would anyone encourage African Americans to begin shooting suspicious White males in their neighborhoods for fear that theyll be raped, assaulted or murdered? Perhaps George Zimmermans defenders should answer that question. If African Americans were to act as irrationally as Zimmerman did, would any rationale suffice to avoid arrest?
And why is no consideration given to the fact that Trayvon Martin, and millions of Black boys and girls like him, harbor a reasonably founded fear of Whites but are hardly ever provided the deference and dignity that victimhood affords?
The term Black on Black crime is a destructive, racialized colloquialism that perpetuates an idea that Blacks are somehow more prone to violence. This is untrue and fully verifiable by FBI, DOJ and census (pdf) data. Yet the fallacy is so fixed that even African Americans have come to believe it.
In Michelle Alexanders book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, she explains that the term was coined in the 1980s as American cities underwent transformation as a result of riots, White flight and the onslaught of the drug trade. David Wilson, a professor at the University of Illinois, documents the phenomena in Inventing Black-on-Black Violence. Wilson says that instead of attributing increased crime activity to poverty, inequality and disenfranchisement, the media chose to blame a supposedly defective, aberrant Black culture.
In a 2010 piece published by The Root, The Myth of Black-on-Black Violence, Natalie Hopkinson opines that journalists should follow the direction of the United Kingdom, where the Guardian newspaper banned the use of the phrase. A Guardian stylebook asked authors to imagine the police saying they were investigating an incident of White-on-White violence Hopkinson concludes, The term Black-on-Black violence is a slander against the majority of law-abiding Black Americans, rich and poor, who get painted by this broad and crude brush.
Trayvon Martins tragic death reveals the worst ills at play within Americas criminal-justice system. Not only was he murdered in large part because of dangerous, persistent stereotypes, but the failure of police to judiciously respond to the crime underscores the inequities that characterize institutionalized racism.
Those who respond to the tragedy by retreating to narratives of Black-on-Black crime seek to promote it as a defense against an innocent childs violent homicide. This reveals how entrenched the lies have become and how eager too many people are to absolve both Zimmermans guilt and their own tacit consent.
African-American media and policymakers have been equally complicit in promoting a Black-on-Black crime anecdote, thinking that it could help address some of the communitys problems; but what it has actually done is provide support for racial profiling and promote the disproportionate policing of Black criminality as legitimate and acceptable. This over-policing has led to disproportionately higher rates of arrests in Black communities, reinforcing the idea that Blacks commit more crimes.
If we were to talk about White-on-White crime, then at least wed be addressing issues like gun violence in a racially neutral way. That doesnt happen because too many Americans remain convinced that Black or brown people are the problem. Respected journalists like George Will further perpetuate lies as fact when they make blanket statements that support an ill-conceived narrative.
This article originally appeared April 10 2012 at The Root: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2012/04/whiteonwhite_crime_it_goes_against_the_false_media_narrative.2.html
whites commit 2-1 amount of crimes than blacks.
consider the white population is between 5-6 times larger than the black population and you’ll see as a race, blacks commit these crimes at a rate on average 3 times as muchas whites do.
i guess he didn’t want to mention this fact.
And along comes Busta Rhymes to demand retribution from George Zimmerman.
doj crime stats show 93% of black murders are by other blacks. ever police dept in the country would have to be lying, as doj collects the info from them.
if we could get rid of that 3%, 75% of gun deaths would be eliminated.
Must be a Democrat precinct committeeman. He’s using Democrat election math.
I vote for the latter. And Holder's people, sitting home watching this on their TVs, will nod their heads and say "Mmm Hmm! Dayum! He's right, ya know!"
it’s worse than you thin.
for crimes hispanics are counted as white to inflate the number.
for victims hispanics are separated from white to deflate the number.
Yep. Math challenged. Absolute numbers rather than per capita.
thin = think
damn tablet
Youre using white mans math.
This is blatant when it comes to "hispanics." When they commit crimes, they are classified as simply "white." When they are victims of crime, they magically become "hispanic."
I's just jivin' ya. Actually there are alphanumeric "numbers"....as in part numbers.
This guy must have a reasonable IQ and still can’t figure out how statistics work. Or he is just another hypnotized propagandist. Blacks vote tribally and will vote for any black politician no matter how thieving, stupid and corrupt he or she is. Whites do not or Obama would not get elected and his sub-tribal leader Holder would not be in office with a swarming Civil Rights Office (a jobs program for black and minority lawyers) in the Justice Department that was sent to Sanford Florida and Ferguson Missouri to dig up anything they could find to put George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson in prison
We would never have heard of Valerie Jarette or that vile traitorous POS Jeh Johnson. Or EPAs Lisa Jackson. Or Moochelle’s multi-bilion dollar food programs which is another affirmative action hiring scam.
At least 50% of murders of all types, yes.
According to 2012 Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis: Annual Report to the Community:
84.7% of those arrested for aggravated assault in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
91.8% of those arrested for robbery in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
97.6% of those arrested for murder in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
78.6% of those arrested for forcible rape in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
http://www.slmpd.org/images/2012AnnualReport_D.pdf
Ruductio ad absurdum.One black person lives in the county and committed 49 of the 100 crimes that occurred last year with the rest of the population committing 51 of the crimes. Thus white folk are more violent than black folk because they committed the majority of the crimes...The phrase per capita does not register with this bloomin’ idiot.
The statistics I heard a couple of weeks ago, blacks make up 12% of the population yet commit 54% of all murders, 68% robberys and so forth.
Illegal aliens make up a third of the U.S. prison population...That’s just the illegals.
“Lets wait to see if Suge Knight survives and let him give us his opinion.”
I told hubby about that and he asked “Is he dead?” and I said no, he was alive so far, and hubby said “Then it’s a publicity stunt.”
But six shots seems a little much for a PR stunt to me.
Nobody cares about black people if they are killed or otherwise harmed by black people. Even then black guy that wrote this article.
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