White on White Crime: In 2011, there were more cases of Whites killing Whites than there were Blacks killing Blacks. Now, in the United States, a White person is almost 6 times more likely to be killed by another White person than by a Black person, according to FBI homicide data. Whites commit the majority of crimes in America. The term black on black crime is a destructive, concept that perpetuates an idea that blacks are somehow more prone to violence. This is untrue and is supported by FBI, DOJ and census (pdf) data. Yet the fallacy is so fixed that even Blacks have come to believe it. It seems that the media in general...and white American society in particular prefer to focus on crime committed by Blacks (character assassination) because it is a way to shift blame & serves as a way to relieve them from the responsibility of murder, violence, prejudice and institutionalized discrimination engendered for generations by whites against blacks. It offers a buffer against their responsibility, a way to deflect cause and effect. But the truth, and numbers, tell an absolute different story…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. In Michelle Alexanders book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, she explains that the term “black on black crime” was coined 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. In summary, Blacks do need to work on things, but DO NOT USE THE TERM BLACK ON BLACK CRIME! This is Adrian X, and this is Just My 2 Cents References: 1. callandpost/news/2013/aug/16/white-white-crime-more-prevalent-black-black/ 2. theroot/articles/culture/2012/04/whiteonwhite_crime_it_goes_against_the_false_media_narrative.3.html Samantha BattleWillie EdwardsTanja MayNatefan PageCampbellMykEl Djedi BakariiMarchon HuntMarche SandersCedric SandersChris MorrisLisa CarterNzinga LaveqKongo Real
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:30:50 +0000
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