Wouldn't it be more accurate to say Kaylagrl is revealing her "tics"?
Aside from the point of black on black crime, how about the statistics for black on white crime? And white on black crime? As well as police homicide? Meaning, police murdered in the line of duty or off duty?
Tallies of Homicides by racial composition numbers has never been a matter of racism. It is a matter of tracking crime that is employed as a method by the Bureau of Justice and also the FBI.
Statistics without context are empty numbers. For example, let's say you cross the street between traffic lights and get arrested for jaywalking. You are now a criminal in the system. Your name forever associated with crime. This gets placed on your record and when you get interviewed for a job and are asked if you have a criminal record you must say "yes". If you say "no" you'd be lying, which is worse to do.
This question is also on applications. And typically there aren't any follow-up questions to understand the context of your crime. You must mark "yes", and will most likely be passed on for the job.
Without context, statistics do not tell the complete story. This goes for any set of statistics, whether we're discussing crime or monetary policy, or whatever.
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Now I joked with Karlagrl about her "ism" showing because she's doing exactly what most do when they slip into an "ism": make blanketed assumptions and generalizations.
For example, if I were to say, "
If women weren't so irrational and emotional our society would be a less chaotic place", how would a woman most likely respond? Would they say:
A) "
lol you're right! And it's my job - as a woman - to help solve this problem for my gender as a whole. Society demands it."
OR
B) "
That's an extremely *sexist* statement to make. It's a blanketed statement made about all women that assume we're all irrational and overly emotional. You can't assume the problems in society are directly attributed to all women."
...most likely they'd say something close to "B" if not exactly "B". Sex
ism.
Well, that's the same thing happening when a person says, "Far more black people are killed within their own community by
their own community." If we take this statement on its face it doesn't give any context or distinction between upstanding citizens and degenerate criminals in that community, it just groups them all together.
Compound this with phrases like "black on black" crime, and statements like
"the police shouldn't be the most important issue to the black community but rather their own community killing themselves", making
no distinction between good and bad people (which every ethnic group possesses), we're consequently saying that "
blacks - as an ethnic group - are more criminal than any other ethnic group".
We have to be careful we're not making blanketed statements and generalizations.