“What about Black-on-Black crime?”

How many of you have heard family, friends, and loved ones ask you this question in response to your outspoken, yet genuine concerns about the plight of Black people? If so, then chances are good that you’re not alone. While the belief that Black people murder each other exclusively at ridiculously high rates is the conventional approach, perhaps one of the most interesting overlooked fact is that many whites are doing the same thing.

The concept of “Black-on-Black” crime is almost exclusively limited to economically oppressed neighborhoods which are inhabited by a Black majority. Once again, one fact that white supremacists choose to overlook is that many of them murder their own. For instance, let’s take a look at the school shootings that have plagued this nation since the incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Newtown, CT, which is also the city that the school is located, has a white population of over 90 percent. This city is also the home of the same school where the infamous shooting occurred. Both children and staff members were senselessly murdered. From the looks of the photos in the following link, the overwhelming majority of victims were members of the dominant society.

http://www.wptv.com/news/news-photo-gallery/sandy-hook-victims-names-list-photos-bios

While there are numerous other instances of white-on-white violence, one of the most infamous killings happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, in 1999. Twelve of the thirteen students killed at this school appeared to be members of the dominant society

http://acolumbinesite.com/victim/memoriam.html

Although the issue of school shootings is the topic at hand, that isn’t the only example. Some of the most notorious provocateurs of white-on-white murders are serial killers.

White supremacists enjoy labeling young Black men as murderers. The mainstream media plays a pivotal role in perpetuating this propaganda. One case of Black media depiction is that the majority of young Black males are angry gun totin’, drive-by shootin’ murderers who possess itchy trigger fingers. However, all of this accusatory rhetoric intentionally passes over young white males who are no strangers to killing people themselves. The majority of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy (all of them white men themselves)’s victims were white. Isn’t that white-on-white crime? Why aren’t white supremacists acknowledging the fact that the majority of murders are committed INTRARACIALLY?

In his 2013 report titled Race, Crime and Statistical Malpractice: How the Right Manipulates White Fear With Bogus Data, author Tim Wise states that only 1 percent of Blacks—and no more than 2 percent of Black males—will commit a violent crime in a given year. No more than 0.7 percent of Blacks will commit a violent crime against a white person in a given year. He also states that whites are 6 times as likely to be murdered by another white person as by a Black person        and overall, the percentage of white Americans who will be murdered by a Black offender in a given year is only 2/10,000s of 1 percent, which equates to 1 in every 500,000 white people will be murdered by a Black person in a given year. To read more of the story, go to http://www.timwise.org/2013/08/race-crime-and-statistical-malpractice-how-the-right-manipulates-white-fear-with-bogus-data/

So, what do the aforementioned stats say about the assumptions made about millions of innocent Black people who have never committed a crime, let alone murder another human being? Shouldn’t this be considered a double standard?

by B. Clark