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| Topic | Systemic police racism is a myth. This is about police brutality (proof inside). |
| abaddon41_80 06/08/20 11:08:33 AM #212: | legendary_zell posted... I don't think that less than 10 percent difference is enough to justify people constantly using it to deflect from police brutality and harassment. People don't even use it in a statistical sense, they use it as a cudgel to beat down people who raise too much fuss about injustice. 10% is a pretty big difference, especially when you consider the population demographics of the United States. Only 8% of black people murdered in 2018 were murdered by white people and white people make up 76.5% of the population. Black people only make up 13.4% of the population yet we accounted for 88.9% of black people murdered, and 15.5% of white people murdered. It should not be used as a cudgel, as you say, but it needs to at least be discussed. Black-on-black violence is a much, much larger problem than police-on-black or white-on-black violence. The argument could be made that systemic racism, i.e. the man keeping us down, is a partial cause of that but all that does is deflect responsibility, as some people in this topic have mentioned. --- I HATE ALEX SMITH ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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