"There's more Black on Black on Crime" and how that statement hit me.
Somehow, at work, things turned to racial crime and murder. The context, at least from the person who spoke the fateful phrase, was the rash of crimes of cops against black victims, the shooting of blacks by cops, making them judge and executioner.
"I watched a news program, and they said blacks kill more blacks than whites do."
"What does that mean for cops killing blacks?"
"Nothing, but it really makes you think."
It did. I realized what it meant by "Black on Black" or "White on Black" or "Black on White" or anyone combination crime. All the designations really said, once you consider the definitions of humanity, were "People of one artificial genetic designation killed people of another certain artificial genetic designation."
"What does that mean for cops killing blacks?"
Everything. Using the idea that blacks kills more blacks in this context is the same that people of a certain group rape more, so cops should be forgiven for raping. The rate of crime, even if it's true, doesn't forgive the crime of others. One designated phenotype killing the same phenotype is the same as saying "humans kill most humans, but it really makes you think about how humans designated as peacekeepers killing humans who aren't considered as such due to their phenotype really makes you think about how most people of that phenotype are by their own kind."
It marks that bit of humanity as inhuman, as worthy of killing, as excusable for their death. They brought it upon themselves, that thinking goes, for killing among their own type. No one thinks of whites killing whites since that doesn't fit the narrative of the other. There, the common tropes state, we can become invested in individual cases. They were mentally unbalanced. They were psychopathic. They were suicidal. They were anything but like "us", like regular humans. And that's the thinking for "black on black"crime. "They aren't like 'us.' They aren't part of the norm. They're not 'normal' like Caucasians, so they can be dismissed."
It makes me sick about my heritage of German, Irish, and Swiss. It makes me sick even with great grandparents who came to this nation to avoid serving in the army. It made me realize, with that one sentence in the wild, that the fact that people of one genetic trait trait people kill those of another genetic trait means that killing people of that trait was justified. That it made one "think" that it was fine to do so. That it wasn't the same as killing someone according to hair or eye color because blue eye people happen to kill other blue eye people according to statistics.
That statistic did make me think, but not as the repeaters of the meme intended. I finally realized how sick the meme was, especially considering, at the end of the age, we're all human.