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8 Reasons Why White People Fear Black People

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The psychological defense mechanism called projection –  when one accuses someone of having traits they refuse to acknowledge in themselves – may also explain why white people fear violence from Black people. Instead of acknowledging the past and present forms of violence Black people have suffered at the hands of whites, it is projected onto the victims themselves.

 

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Media Propaganda

Historically and up until present times, the media continue to broadcast daily imagery of Black men as dangerously criminal, using and dealing drugs,  hypersexual,  unemployable, idle and the epitome of death and doom. This is true despite the reality that white people have, and do, participate in mob and domestic violence in higher numbers, and that whites comprise more than 70 percent of drug abusers and dealers in our country.

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