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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Black: 13% of the population, 26% of those killed by the police.
Whites: 63% of the population, 50% of those killed.
That doesn't seem disproportionate to you at all?
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Where have a I said it isn't disproportionate? But why is that disproportionality the only story we're hearing about? It seems to me that the issue here is the U.S. has a terrible problem with trigger-happy police. 704 non-blacks shot dead by police in 2015. That isn't something that can be hand-waved away as a red herring. I doubt it's any comfort to the families of the two unarmed minors shot dead by U.S. police in 2015 (both white) that whites are proportionally less likely to be shot dead than blacks.
It's so dispiriting to see everything devolve into tribal narratives of Us vs Them, Heroes vs Villains, Oppressor vs Oppressed, etc. I'm starting to despair that maybe humanity can't think of social ills in any other terms.