We've heard a lot in recent days about Racism and Hate Crimes and the perception of Threat that should be felt by both Black and White Americans from each other. For years we've been told that our streets are filled with Raging Black Criminals and that the likelihood of encountered and being victimized by a died-in-the-wool hardcore Racist are essentially nil. That people like Dylann Roof are an extreme fringy aberration, but that Violent Black Thugstm are as common as dishwater.
That why last December when discussion yet another Cop Killing of an Unarmed Black Man I received tweets like this.
And this.
It's interesting that these people are so in love with crime stats that make black people look bad, and especially when they're totally bogus as I diaried back then because they come from White Supremacist sites such as the CCC and Stormfront, it's even more interesting that they never look at the actual FBI Hate Crime Stats which paints a completely different picture than the one they'd like to portray.
Stats like these. PDF
As you can see Hate Crimes that end in murder really
are quite rare, or at least those cases of Murder where the justification is known racial animus are rare with less than 1/2 dozen (4 Murders by Whites, 0 by Blacks, 1 Unknown) for the entire year. It appears Dylann Roof really blew the bell curve on that all by himself. Cases of Rape with a known racial bias are quite rare with less than 20 per year. But look at how many cases of hate based aggravated assault, simple assault and intimidation are recorded by the FBI.
It's in the thousands, and overwhelmingly these assaults and acts of intimidation - are committed by white people.
Continued over the flip.
None of this is to say that "All White People" are bad, or even most, the relative smallness of these numbers clearly shows that isn't the case. But it also shows there is great differential between the number and frequency of these cases when the cause for the bias is black, white, religious or about sexual orientation.
Here's another Hate Crimes chart that shows the breakdown or the array of victims of biased based crimes.
Incidents which are Racial (2,871) outnumber those that are based both on Religion (1,031) and on Sexual Orientation (1,233) by well over 2:1. So if we're really in the midst of a "War on Christians" it seems the Race War is already well underway and raging nicely.
Also if there was any doubt from the first posted chart where the offenders of Racial Hate Crimes where overwhelmingly White, the targets of those criminals are not surprisingly, overwhelming Anti-Black (66.7%) as opposed to Anti-White (21%).
People that constantly argue that Police need to be tougher and more focused on Black people because of their propensity for criminality [it's not "Racism" it's just statistics] always argue that even though White People Commit more Crime overall (6.5 Million Offenses) vs Black People (2.6 Million Offenses) even when you focus in specifically on Violent Crime (236,394 White Offenses vs 155,088 Black Offenses), we should still considered Black people to be "more violent and more dangerous" because they are numerically fewer and they are apparently exceeding their per capita crime quota.
Esentially when you say people who are only 13% of the population should only be among 13% of those arrested that's Setting A Quota. Strangely these same people argue when people say we should try to have at least 13% Black representation in leadership positions, or at least 13% representation among college student bodies or faculties (even when the local black population far exceeds 13%) people scream "That's Unfair Affirmative Action", but when it comes to crime stats they have no such compunction against quota setting and estimating things on a "per capita" basis.
Isn't that odd?
If we were to look at the Hate Crime Stats on a per capita basis you have to wonder how exactly does 13% of the population wind up being 66% of those targeted, intimidated and assaulted simply because they're black or they openly associate themselves with black people?
And don't you think those on the receiving end of this intimidation and assault just might, occasionally, be a little bit upset about it because let's all realize, not every one of these incidents that occurs gets reported to the police let alone investigated and specifically identified as Hate or Bias motivated event with an arrest associated (and that goes for general crimes as well, arrests and charge rates don't necessarily reflect the actual number of criminals only the small percentage police catch). The fact is that there are a lot more of these events than even the FBI stats show. When people argue that "There is no Racism in America" the first thing they need to do is explain these Hate Crime Numbers because they seem to tell a completely different story.
Yes, racial murders as we've seen this week in Charleston are not happening everyday, Dylann Roof is indeed an outlier, but a lot of other things are occurring "under the radar" that are affecting people lives all the time. Pretending this isn't occurring and just saying "So What" ala Bill O'Reilly isn't doing anything to help bring any of these numbers down to where they should be.
Zero.
Vyan
3:32 PM PT: Just for the record the FBI recorded Total Rape Offenses in 2012 as 9,027 (65.0%) White and 4,512 (32.5%) Black.