{"id":42861,"date":"2020-06-14T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/stop-using-black-on-black-crime-to-deflect-away-from-police-brutality\/"},"modified":"2020-06-14T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:21:11","slug":"stop-using-black-on-black-crime-to-deflect-away-from-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/stop-using-black-on-black-crime-to-deflect-away-from-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop using \u2018black-on-black\u2019 crime to deflect away from police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two women repost signs that removed form the Lafayette Park near the White House on June 10 following protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we talking about black on black crime?\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve expressed support for Black Lives Matter, spoken out against police brutality, or written a modest<\/a> column in the past few weeks, you\u2019ve probably been asked (or chastised) for not mentioning how many more black people kill other black people compared to the police.<\/p>\n

There are answers to the question, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we talking about black on black crime?\u201d But critics of Black Lives Matter don\u2019t want to hear them.<\/p>\n

If they cared, they\u2019d be asking about crime within the African American community year-round, as many black activists and neighborhood leaders do. But as Doughboy told Tre in 1991\u2019s \u201cBoyz N the Hood\u201d (and it\u2019s still true today), \u201cEither they don\u2019t know, don\u2019t show, or don\u2019t care about what\u2019s going on in the hood.\u201d<\/p>\n

When an opponent of Black Lives Matters talks about \u201cblacks killing blacks\u201d it\u2019s almost always to deflect attention away from police brutality. As if one issue makes the other more acceptable.<\/p>\n

When someone commits an act of terrorism against in the United States, which rightfully leads to anger and sadness, no one asks, \u201cWell what about how many Americans kill other Americans each year?\u201d Because that would crazy, now wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

But, by all means, let\u2019s talk about \u201cblack on black crime.\u201d You\u2019ve probably heard a statistic<\/a> like this before \u2013 The majority of black people murdered are killed by other black people. That\u2019s true, but also misleading. The overwhelming majority of murder victims each year are killed by white assailants. So, when\u2019s the last time you heard the term \u201cwhite on white crime?\u201d<\/p>\n

As shocking as it may be for some to hear, people generally commit crimes against people they know or live near. If you want to have a real discussion about crime, let\u2019s talk about the factors that contribute to it happening in the first place.<\/p>\n

White supremacists have attributed the fact that crime rates are higher among African Americans than whites to people of color being biologically more prone to violence. In reality, crime is directly linked more to poverty than race or any other factor.<\/p>\n

According to the Bureau for Justice Statistics<\/a>, People living in households with income below the federal poverty threshold are twice as likely to commit a violent crime than people in high-income households, regardless of race.<\/p>\n

We live in a country where the poverty rate<\/a> is more than twice as high among black Americans than white. And that has as much to do with 400 years of systematic racism than anything else.<\/p>\n

White supremacists will tell you slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago. So, get over it. Yet, just as that was a hard sell to African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, it\u2019s equally hard to accept 30 years after Rodney King and the L.A. Riots and weeks removed from the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.<\/p>\n

Thomas Abt, a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cRacial disparities in crime and punishment are real, but they have been produced in large part by a sustained campaign of persecution by whites against disempowered minorities, particularly African Americans. Officially, that effort has ended; overt racial discrimination has been prohibited by law for decades. Nevertheless, the brutal legacy of that campaign \u2014 racism, segregation, concentrated poverty, and violence \u2014 remains.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

None of this necessarily means a black person being killed by another black person is more or less significant than if they were killed by a police officer. Death is death and murder is murder.<\/p>\n

Yet, what if it were captured on video? Could a victim\u2019s family take solace in knowing evidence exists for that person to be prosecuted? That\u2019s usually the case. But that may not matter for George Floyd. It certainly didn\u2019t matter in the cases of Eric Gardner or Tamir Rice.<\/p>\n

What is someone supposed to do when you can be murdered legally? When police can harass you and then choke you out because you\u2019re selling loose cigarettes or when a cop can kneel on your neck as you cry out \u201cI can\u2019t breathe” while his colleagues stand by and watch.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why police brutality is its own unique horror. And African Americans are two and half times more likely<\/a> than whites to be killed by law enforcement.<\/p>\n

When you step outside every day knowing you\u2019re twice as likely to be killed by someone sworn to protect you just because of the color of your skin, you\u2019re dealing with a different type of fear. Don\u2019t let statistics, ignorance or flat out racism cloud that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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