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Racism and Guns
“No one talks about black-on-white crime.”
I was at a restaurant with a large group of people, most of whom I hadn’t met before. There was a television nearby, and a woman across the table from me seemed to have picked up on something she saw on the news.
“No one talks about black-on-white crime.”
I didn’t know this woman, and I was a guest of others at the table. So, I noted her comment — she had gotten my attention — but I let it go. Everyone in our group — including the woman and me — was white, but for some reason, she felt aggrieved.
Fact: Black-on-white crime is not a particular problem.
For example, in the case of murder, according to the FBI’s most recent data (from 2017), when the race of the offender is known, 81% of white people are killed by another white person.
“Did you know more deaths are caused by fists than by rifles?”
No one at the table had shown much interest in this line of conversation. We were a bunch of tired convention-goers who were hoping for a few drinks, some food, and pleasant socializing. But there must have been some follow-up to her complaint about black-on-white crime that brought her to this second declaration:
