flopstock;1479217 wrote: Just sayin'...:-2
Or is it so outside our own reality that it just seems that way. Read the story without a picture and my immediate thought was 'has to be a white guy'
For me it all depends on what the crime is which forms an image of the perp's race. All the time I know it is based on life experience, I profile.
flopstock;1479217 wrote: So I guess I am a little bit racist.
It is not racist to deal with reality. What is racists is to continue to perpetrate lies.
Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that’s now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all mass killers are white.
Before rushing to play pin the tale on the honkey, did anyone bother to check the history of mass killings?
Pin the tail on the honkey.
That just cracked me up.
Because I have — a comprehensive list dating from 1982 through 9/16/2013 is found at Mother Jones here — and guess what?
Of the last 20 mass killings of that period, 9 were perpetrated by non-whites.
That would be 45 percent, which exceeds non-whites’ 37 percent share of the population.
Of the last 30 mass killings, 11 were committed by non-whites — right at the 37 percent mark.
And what if we go all the way back to 1982? We then have 66 mass killings in which the races of the perpetrators were known, and 22 of them, or one-third, were at the hands of non-whites. Note here that America’s demographics have been changing, with non-whites comprising only about 20 percent of the population in 1982; thus, if we consider an approximate average non-white population of 28.5 percent during the 31-year period in question, it appears that, again, mass murderers are slightly disproportionately non-white.
In other words, there is no evidence whatsoever that mass killings are a characteristically white phenomenon.
And there never was.
In fact, the group most disproportionately represented on the Mother Jones chart is Americans of Asian descent. While only 6 percent of the population, they have been 15 percent of the 31-year period’s last 20 mass killers, 13 percent of the last 30, and 9 percent of the last 66. This is quite interesting, too, since Americans of Asian descent have a very low crime rate in general.
So in light of this, why are whites implicated in mass killings? The answer is one word:
Prejudice.
Are Most Mass Murderers Really White?
I am not a big fan of MOTHER JONES but this is the list referred to in the above article.
