I examined Centers for Disease Control statistics on murder, gun killings and illegal-drug overdoses among white Americans.The last sentence is at the crux of the BLM movement. If you examine the evidence, white on black crime due to irrational fear, is the bigger crime problem in this country. Trayvon Martin is not an isolated case.
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Rates of homicides, gun killings and illicit-drug fatalities are highest in counties where nine in 10 residents are white and where President Trump won.
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Such counties are not limited to one geographical region. They include Boone County, W.V.; Washington County, Utah; Baxter County, Ark.; and Brown County, Ohio.
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Overall, white Americans who live in predominantly white and Trump-voting counties are 50% more likely to die from murder, gun violence and drug overdoses than whites who live in the most diverse and Democratic-voting counties. The more white and Republican a county is, the greater the risk for white Americans.
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Correspondingly, the white Americans who are safest from such deaths are those who live in racially diverse areas such as Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, where two-thirds of residents are nonwhite, where millions of immigrants live, and where voters favored Hillary Clinton in 2016. Nonwhites also are safer in these areas overall, though rates vary by location.
Stand your ground laws make it impossible to convict someone of murder if they claim that they felt that their life is in danger. If white people persist in irrationally believing that black people are dangerous, then they can legally get away with murder. This is the new lynching.
It is the job of all of us to push back against irrational fear. Don't let people like Trump get away with spouting lies without pushing back. The lives of our fellow human beings depend on this.
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ReplyDeleteYour gut instincts are right. We are most at risk from white men. And society enables them by telling us they are less threatening than they really are. Society also deflects attention by telling us the danger comes from less violent groups. The data says that white men perpetrate most of the violence in the US, especially with guns.
DeleteAs alwsys, I enjoy reading your blog.
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DeleteI do not understand white people's fear either. I grew up military and married military. On base there are more black men than most places and some of them are carrying guns on their hips and I never felt safer anywhere. On base we never even locked our cars in parking lots. Never laid eyes on a violent black man but a few white ones.
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