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My problem with The Black Lives Matter movement is that it comes from a place of false information. We are killed at a higher rate per capita than white people by police but black people killed by police are more likely to be killed by black police officers. Michigan State did a study last year that shows, and I quote, "If anything, black citizens are more likely to have been shot by black officers, but this is because black officers are drawn from the same population that they police." There results found "that its not racial bias on behalf of white officers relative to black officers when it comes to fatal shootings."

In addition they found, "violent crime rates are the driving force behind fatal shootings, Cesario said. Our data show that the rate of crime by each racial group correlates with the likelihood of citizens from that racial group being shot. If you live in a county that has a lot of white people committing crimes, white people are more likely to be shot. If you live in a county that has a lot of black people committing crimes, black people are more likely to be shot. It is the best predictor we have of fatal police shootings.

The data would seem to agree with that statement. We only account for 13.4% of the US population but we commit 37.4% of violent crimes and 53.3% of murders. We kill white people at twice the rate they kill us and we kill police officers at four times the rate white people kill them. Almost 90% of black people murdered are murdered by other black people. BLM ignores all of this and tries to deflect blame 100% to white people by focusing on the minority of times where white people do murder us.

I agree that racism is a thing, I have seen it and been the victim of it. There are racist white people out there. There are also racist black people out there. Maybe we have more reason to be racist because of our experiences but that isn't going to make anything better. If anything, stereotyping and racism to combat stereotyping and racism is going to create a further divide. We seemingly want to punish all white people for the sins of the incredibly small minority while excusing behavior within our race. Maybe white people do that, too, and maybe it just feels like we do it more because I mostly move in circles of other black people.

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