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5 Reasons America Is Unjustly Afraid Of Young Black Men

black-on-black-crimeMisreported Statistics Used to Reinforce Black Men as Violent

One statistic commonly misused by a misleading media is: 49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. However, that racial exclusivity was also true for white victims of violent crime—86 percent were killed by white offenders. This is because there’s no such thing as “black-on-black” crime. These statistics ring true for all races in America, because people of a particular race tend to live in the same neighborhoods.

A statistic that is rarely even spoken about though, is: according to the 2011 FBI report on hate crimes, racial bias accounted for 46.9 percent of those. That is almost half of hate crimes. That means we still have a race problem in America.

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