American Thinker: Typical White Fact-Based Reasoning By Randall Hoven
Senator Barack Obama said in his memoir, The Audacity of Hope, “The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact.” Yet he also claimed that to fear a black person on the street more than a white person is a racial “stereotype”, “bred” into us.
To the contrary, such a fear is actually “grounded in reason and fact.” When the numbers are crunched, a black person is almost six times more likely than a white person to be a murderer. Senator Barack Obama in his Race Speech said his white grandmother “once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street”. In a follow-up interview he clarified that remark by saying,
“She is a typical white person who, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there is a reaction. That has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.” He described such feelings as, “racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
It is true that Jesse Jackson confessed to the same fear. More importantly, that fear is a rational one, borne out by “reason and fact”. The data are available.
The U.S. Justice Department provides a breakdown of homicides by the race of both the victim and offender. Looking at the data for 2005 (the latest year available), we find that whites committed 48.0% of all murders and blacks committed 51.2% of all murders.
However, whites outnumber blacks in the population. In fact, non-Hispanic whites are about 69% of the population and blacks are about 13% .
These statistics alone, that blacks are 13% of the population but commit 51.2% of the murders, indicate that blacks commit a seriously disproportionate number of murders.
No wonder Grandma was afraid.
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