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Well, you would be wrong. You have a very self serving interpretation of crime statistics, that not surprisingly, nobody has pointed out. [b]Most white people don't live and/or associate with a significant number of black people, and therefore aren't victimized by them.[/b] Just because few white people are killed in SE DC doesn't mean that it's safe for White people. I can't believe that I had to explain this.

The idea that white people get a free pass by black people (especially  kids) is a great dcum fairytale, but it's hardly what I experienced. And ditto for my friends and family. This was at a time when the crime rate was twice as high as it is today, and racial tension was high as well. There is a reason why everyone with a few bucks moved to the burbs.

Anyway, what school did this happen at? Will anyone on dcum volunteer to send their kids to this school?[/quote]

That's actually quite true.  While [b]a majority of crime is between members of the same racial group[/b], interracial crime is overwhelmingly black on white.  In the instances where blacks and whites live/work together there's a significant amount of black on white crime.  Based on population numbers and crime rates, blacks are 27 times more likely to attack a white than the other way around.   In 2013 (last numbers I saw, Bureau of Justic Statistics) white violent offenders had black victims 4% of the time and black violent offenders had white victims 39% of the time.
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Thank you for proving the EXACT POINT that I was making.  A majority of crime is between members of the same racial group.  That means that a black person is at much higher risk of being the victim of crime perpetrated by another black person than a white person is at risk of being the victim of a crime perpetrated by a black person.  Similarly, a white person is at much higher risk of being the victim of a white criminal than a black criminal.  That's the point.

But - you guys jumping to mistakenly cite problematic data about racial differences in crime rates is troubling.  Your talking point about "27 times more likely to attack a white" is actually a talking point directly from the racist American Renaissance site, founded by prominent white supremacist Jared Taylor.  Among other gems from this guy are "The races do not have the same average intelligence" and "Maybe, people could now openly admit to their neighbors, 'No, I don’t want blacks moving into the neighborhood because they are not like us.'"  Here's a long piece on the history of the white supremacist effort to push the notion of black criminality that covers Taylor extensively  https://www.splcenter.org/20180614/biggest-lie-white-supremacist-propaganda-playbook-unraveling-truth-about-%E2%80%98black-white-crime.  
    
If you look at the academic research on this topic,  you will see that poverty rather than race explains crime rates, period.  The reason that blacks commit crimes against whites more than whites against blacks has to do with opportunity -- basically black people are orders of magnitude more likely to interact with whites regularly than the reverse (Robert M. O’Brien, “The Interracial Nature of Violent Crimes: A Reexamination,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 93, no. 4).  Controlling for opportunity, at least one recent study has found that whites are actually more likely to assault black strangers than the reverse (https://thecrimereport.org/2018/06/22/interracial-crime-study-in-l-a-finds-whites-more-likely-to-assault-blacks-than-the-reverse/).    [/quote]

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