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Re: all lives matter only until black lives matter is a faschist slur
by
Spendulus
on 22/07/2020, 19:42:40 UTC
Now let's take a look at the police shootings. Contrary to the myths, every year more number of whites are shot dead by the cops, when compared to the blacks.




The chart undermines your argument, surely?

African-Americans make up 13% of the population.
African-Americans make up 23% of fatal police shootings.
Therefore African-Americans are disproportionately likely to get fatally shot.



No, the chart does not undermine Bryant's argument, unless you would argue by omission.

One catastrophic condition in the lives of many African Americans today is the horrendously high murder rate that they experience. While, according to the U.S. Census (U.S. Census Quick Facts), African Americans made up 12.6% of the U.S. population in 2010, and  13.3% in 2015, they, according to the FBI were in 2013 victims of 45% of the murders, in 2018 victims of 52.4% of the murders in the U.S., more than three times the rate that might be expected by population.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/philip-carl-salzman/2020/05/31/who-kills-african-americans-n472072