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Originally Posted by fatso
Interesting, though I still don't see why black-on-black crime is a thing, but white-on-white crime isn't. So the reasoning is that black people really ought not to complain about what their government and its institutions do because black people are disproportionately incarcerated?
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It gets pointed out because out of black-on-black; black-on-white; white-on-white; white-on-black, black-on-black is statistically by far the most common. It is interesting for a few reasons. One of them being that whites are not nearly as likely to be victimized by black people as they think they are. Another is that black people living in poor, predominantly black communities, are most likely to commit crimes against other people living in those communities.
Another reason it gets brought up is because when gun control debates heat up, they are often focused on an incident where a white person kills other white people. And then the debate is based on ways to stop similar crimes with with proposed policies based on the overall United states gun violence statistics. But the policies proposed to curb the odd white on white spree killing do nothing address the far more common black on black and domestic hand gun crimes.
If you want to curb violence in the US, then the place to start is to look at policies that can curb the most common type of crime. And to ignore that the most common type is poor black people victimizing other poor black people is not going to help anyone. It should also be noted that this is far more than a skin colour issue. I'd imagine a black person living in a middle class suburb is statistically no more likely to commit a crime than a white person in the same area.