Why Doesn't Bill O'Reilly Spout Off About This Epidemic of Violence?
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By Janet Allon
Why oh why is no one commenting on the insanely high rate of of white on white murder? Bill O'Reilly? Joe Klein, of Time magazine, who devotes his whole column to write this week on black on black murder, in response to Ferguson? Anybody? Because bringing up the canard of black on black crime whenever a white man kills a black man is just how the right-wing—and apparently the mainstream—media rolls.
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Note to smug white racists: Take a look at the real numbers. According to the FBI's most recent homicide statistics, Vox.com reports, "the United States is in the wake of an epidemic of white-on-white crime. Back in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.
83 percent!
As Vox's Matthew Iglesias writes, rather brilliantly:
This is not to say that white people are inherently prone to violence. Most whites, obviously, manage to get through life without murdering anyone. And there are many countries full of white people — Norway, Iceland, France, Denmark, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — where white people murder each other at a much lower rate than you see here in the United States. On the other hand, although people often see criminal behavior as a symptom of poverty, the quantity of murder committed by white people specifically in the United States casts some doubt on this. Per capita GDP is considerably higher here than in France — and the white population in America is considerably richer than the national average — and yet we have more white murderers.
Another disturbing and revelatory stat via Vox: 36 percent of those killed by whites are women, a far higher percentage than what you see with murderers who are black.
These alarming, and readily available, numbers seem to merit some more attention. Wonder why they're not getting any.
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1 comment:
Another spin on the same data: 7 percent of all murders of black people are committed by whites, who are 77% of the population. So whites appear to be going out of their way not to kill blacks. You have spun this as an epidemic of white-on-white crime, but it is the sort of American Emmett Till would have been a lot safer in.
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