The Systemic Neglect of Black Victims
Is this gradual decline in support for capital punishment a sign of progress and moral maturity?
Critics of Black Lives Matter pointed out that the number of blacks killed by white police officers accounted for less than 1 percent of the 7,000 blacks killed annually. Then, the critics accused BLM of not condemning “black-on-black crime” with the same zeal they condemned police brutality.
Black opinion writers jumped to BLM’s defense.
They argued the term “black-on-black crime” was a racist myth created by white people to stereotype black neighborhoods and keep blacks incarcerated at disproportional rates. According to FBI data, black people are murdered by other black people 90 percent of the time, but 83 percent of white people were killed by other whites.
The data proved murderers normally murder people of the same racial makeup.
Since whites killed whites all the time and no term “white-on-white crime” was ever invented to describe these killings, the black opinion writers concluded there should be no term called “black-on-black crime” to describe the same criminal behavior. This is a valid point if white people invented the term “black-on-black crime”.