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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 05:25 PM
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45. if you're black, your odds of being killed by a white offender are roughly twice as high...
... as the odds for a white individual of being killed by a black offender.


I know you're not used to hearing it that way, but that's what the numbers say.


Another thing that the numbers say is that same-race homicides (overwhelmingly committed by men) are the rule, and everything else is the exception. In 2006, 3,709 white victims mostly fell prey to 3,026 white perpetrators -- to the complete indifference of white supremacists, who only want to talk about the much smaller number of interracial homicides.


http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_05.html


A smaller percentage (blacks) killed a larger number of whites. There are many more whites, yet fewer black victims of white on black homicide, so fewer whites are killing blacks than blacks killing whites per capita.


If offenders chose their victims at random, without regard to race, whites would be a majority of the victims of black offenders, whereas blacks would remain a minority of the victims of white offenders. If race weren't a factor in victim-selection, black offenders would kill about 5 or 6 times more whites than blacks. But they don't. The reality is that they kill over 5 times as many blacks as whites.

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