Despite the fact that black people are no more dangerous than white people who live in the same areas, black people are subject to massively disproportional violence inflicted by the state.
The thing that should really make you pause and consider your assumptions is this: Black Americans are more likely to be killed by a police officer than a criminal.
According to what data?
In 2017, 223 black people were shot/killed by police in the US[1], while 2,627 black people were murdered by black people in the US.
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
[2]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/
Statistica paywalls its information but verifiable records show over 400 killings of black people every year since 2010[1].
>Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers?
Perhaps to ignore the broader context so as to avoid confronting a big, uncomfortable, politically incorrect issue?
Dead people don't care if they were murdered by a family member or a stranger. If anything, this data is more evidence of the destruction of the family structure since the 1960s.
In 1960, 78% of black children were being raised in 2 parent households.[1]
In 2018, 65% of black children were being raised in a single parent households.[2]
[1]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thomas-sowell-on-the-legacy-o...
[2]https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in...
This doesn't even pass the laugh test.
I think it's spectacularly offensive to tell black people that there's no problem of other black people killing them in their neighborhoods. The problem clearly exists and is in desperate need of a solution. The real question is how to fix it.