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85 percent of white murder victims and 93 percent of Black ones are killed by someone of the same race—and the interracial crimes that do occur in the U.S.A. are
In 2015, when the BLM movement took off nationally, only about 1,200 people of all races died during encounters with police. Only 258 of these people were Black, and, according to my calculations, exactly 17 unarmed Black folks were killed by white officers during the year.
it is just undisputed that 70 percent or more of cop shooting victims are not Black. The left-leaning mass media often seem to deal with this fact by actively concealing it. An in-depth look at Google and Bing search results indicates that the large non-Black majority of police shooting incidents receive less than 10 percent of all media coverage of police violence.
the plain fact is that a Black crime rate which is 2.5 times the white crime rate and rises to 10 times the white crime rate in many major cities obviously explains most or all Black-white disparities in terms of unpleasant encounters with police.
“high-profile” police shootings of whites generally receive something in the order of one-tenth as much media coverage as high-profile police shootings of Blacks. Interestingly, even police shootings of Hispanics—a group logically more oppressed than native-born Blacks “IN TRUMP’S AMERICA”—receive virtually no mass media coverage.
80 percent of all individuals shot and killed by the police in a typical year are whites or Latinos,
The basic claims of BLM are simply not true. Fewer than 1,200 people were killed by police in the year the movement began; only 258 of them were Black, and exactly 17 were unarmed Black men shot by white officers. Because they were directed at a nonexistent problem, the sweeping solutions of these proud young activists did far more harm than good.
Although 76 percent of the individuals killed by police are whites or Hispanics, these cases receive less than 10 percent of national media coverage.
93 percent of Black homicide victims are killed by other Blacks, and roughly 85 percent of white homicide victims are killed by other whites.
FBI data show that while 500 Black-on-white killings and 229 white-on-Black killings were reported in 2015, 2,574 homicides were committed by whites against other whites, and 2,380 by Blacks against Blacks.”12
suicides in the U.S. increased from 10.5 per 100,000 people annually in 2000 to 13.0 per 100,000 in 2014.
Canadian men die from suicide at four times the rate of women.
Black (and Latino) students often receive admissions offers with test scores twenty or thirty percentage points lower than those of white or Asian applicants. At a typical top-50 educational institution, the “affirmative action edge” for minority applicants appears to be in the order of 300 test points.
“Children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems. Boys are more likely to be involved in crime, and girls are more likely to become pregnant as teens.”
native-born African American illegitimacy rate recently hit 75 percent. Williams pointed out that this is not part of the “legacy of slavery,” but rather something entirely new in Black history:
perhaps 60 percent of contemporary income, IQ, and incarceration gaps between Blacks and whites are due solely to the contemporary surge in father-absent families.
As of 2016, the most violent city in the country was Oceana, West Virginia, a formerly booming coal town hit hard by the opiate epidemic, where 4,175.99 violent crimes per 100,000 residents are reported in a typical year. On a per capita basis, the place was twice as violent as Detroit, which averages “only” 1,988.63 violent crimes per 100,000 persons per year. Indeed, the entire list of the most violent (small) cities was dominated by what I would have thought of as very pleasant places—formerly bucolic white or middle-class Black towns known for things like furniture sales: Wellston,
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