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<blockquote data-quote="Boaty1" data-source="post: 714678" data-attributes="member: 2631"><p>The issue to me is not really what is going with this story in particular. It's the overarching theme of violence against black people by whites that through anecdotal stories such as these, our country has come to the conclusion that blacks are physically threatened by overt racism from whites. This narrative runs completely counter to what the full data set shows. Year after year after stats show that whites are more than twice as likely to be killed by blacks than blacks are by whites. So the question arises, why are we being fed this narrative of blacks being the victims of violence at rates that go beyond what one expect? It's clear to me it's being driver for political reasons and also for rating by the media. Here is the 2017 FBI statistics regrading this.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls" target="_blank">https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls</a></p><p></p><p>Anybody remember the white college baseball player that was killed while jogging by 2 black teenagers for no reason other than they said they were bored?</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/teenagers-allegedly-murder-college-baseball-player-boredom-article-1.1431445" target="_blank">https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/teenagers-allegedly-murder-college-baseball-player-boredom-article-1.1431445</a></p><p></p><p>Notice how race isn't mentioned in this article. I did a quick search and not one headline read 2 black teens kill white college baseball player. Do you think race would have been mentioned in the headline if the roles were reversed? I know I certainly do and until we can get some honest reporting about this issue I'm not sure how race relations can improve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boaty1, post: 714678, member: 2631"] The issue to me is not really what is going with this story in particular. It's the overarching theme of violence against black people by whites that through anecdotal stories such as these, our country has come to the conclusion that blacks are physically threatened by overt racism from whites. This narrative runs completely counter to what the full data set shows. Year after year after stats show that whites are more than twice as likely to be killed by blacks than blacks are by whites. So the question arises, why are we being fed this narrative of blacks being the victims of violence at rates that go beyond what one expect? It's clear to me it's being driver for political reasons and also for rating by the media. Here is the 2017 FBI statistics regrading this. [URL]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls[/URL] Anybody remember the white college baseball player that was killed while jogging by 2 black teenagers for no reason other than they said they were bored? [URL]https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/teenagers-allegedly-murder-college-baseball-player-boredom-article-1.1431445[/URL] Notice how race isn't mentioned in this article. I did a quick search and not one headline read 2 black teens kill white college baseball player. Do you think race would have been mentioned in the headline if the roles were reversed? I know I certainly do and until we can get some honest reporting about this issue I'm not sure how race relations can improve. [/QUOTE]
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