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Ok but how many white women carry guns and shoot cops, and how many black men do? Prejudice comes from generalizations derived from real statistical differences. I don’t think the prejudice will change until the underlying statistical differences begin to change, sadly. [/quote]

Agree. This is an uncomfortable fact. [/quote]

+10000. Until blacks start to change as a community nothing will change, doesn't matter how much people scream in the streets. Unfortunately that means the good black people get stuck being stereotyped with the bad black people but that's who humans work. You know why Indians or Chinese or whoever don't have these issues? Bc when cops or even regular people walking around at night see them -- in their mind they're thinking hmm x% chance this guy is a dr or IT coming home from work, not x% chance this guy has a gun or a warrant out for his arrest or his high so I better be careful. Unfortunate but that's how society works in America if you're not white (which I'm not) -- the behaviors of your community set a perception for your entire community, whether you are engaging in said behavior or not. Not saying it SHOULD be this way, but that's how it IS and no amount of protesting will change that. Maybe consider some focus on education and uplifting your communities and less focus on guns and drugs.[/quote]

I think you all are reading the statistics with a racist slant and that is only reinforcing your bigoted stereotypes.

Black men commit crimes in greater numbers per capita based on a percentage of the number of black men.  But white men commit about 3/4 of the violent crime in the US annually.  So, while any individual black male is more likely to commit a crime, you are 3 times as likely to be victimized by a white man than you are by a black man.  Just because the two black guys in the room are individually more likely to commit a crime than any of the white guys, you are still three times more likely to be victimized by one of the 7 white men in the room than one of the two black guys.  But you don't look askew at the 7 white guys are are far more likely as a group to victimize you.  People read what they want into the statistics.

The fact remains that white men commit nearly 70% of the violent crimes annually, but we don't stereotype the white men because of that.  If you exclude inner city poor areas, then the demographics of crime between white men and black men get much, much closer in the likelihood of either one of them committing a violent crime, but black men in suburbs and upper middle class or wealthy areas are still treated with the same stereotypes and racial profiling as if they were and inner city poor resident.

[url]https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2[/url]

James Blake is a millionaire former top-10 tennis player for the US.  He is known internationally and was standing outside his Manhatten hotel waiting for a friend when a cop runs up out of nowhere, tackles him, pins him to the ground and handcuffs him.  Just because they were on the lookout for "a black man"
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oga0RjpftWs[/url]

Jay Pharoah from Saturday Night Live was assaulted by police while walking through LA because they were looking for "a black man in grey sweats".
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv_mMmbdxL0[/url]

These types of arrests and assaults do not occur to white UMC in nicer parts of town.  
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