Re: ex police chief instructed officers to arrest and frame random black men
We have individual laws on the books named after white people, the idea is that no bad thing should happen to any white person ever and if it does punishment should be swift and heavy-handed. The Matthew Shepherd Act, Caylee's law, Marsy's law, Johnathan's law. Where's Trayvon's law or Sean Bell's law or emmitt till's law?
it's like a person who witnessed a rape but didn't intervene, so to maintain emotional stability they convince themselves that "the victim was asking for it, she shouldn't have been at that party, wearing THAT skirt, and she got way too drunk
The first law named after a person that came into my mind, even before reading yours, was Megan's Law. There'e plenty more where these laws came from. Take all of these people (who the laws were named after) at the time of the crime, age them forty years, put them all in one room, change 3/4 of the women into men, and it will look like a Trump rally. Maybe they'll just throw a black person in so that he can point to "my African-American." (I wish this was a joke, but it's not.)
police sexual assault rates are higher than the general population and that's naively assuming that we KNOW about all the cases and that they are charged and prosecuted accordingly.
That is certainly a good indicator of what kind of approach they may have when they're out-and-about...with guns.
Statistically, if you are black and in the morgue to identify a family member shot by a bad apple, there is about a 90% likelihood the tragedy is due to another black American
At least stay with the topic IN CONTEXT, please. The "bad apple" context was referring to police, specifically - not to racial demographics. For that matter, bad policing resulting in unjustified murder of civilians has sometimes (though not as often - and there are far fewer black cops anyway) resulted in a black cop killing a black person...but, OK, addressing the "another black American" thing...:
People who are living their everyday lives are most usually spending their time in the vicinity of where they live or work. "In-between" the two, people are usually in their cars, or perhaps on buses or trains...people don't often commit murders in the public spaces (or cars) they inhabit between the two places, or while shopping and such. Furthermore, some workplace mass-murders notwithstanding (which are usually done by somebody who was fired), people are usually on their better behaviours when they're at work or nearby, because jobs generally require that the person keeps their demeanor and conduct "on the straight-and-narrow." People who commit murders often (usually?) are preceded by use of drugs or alcohol within the hours leading up to the murder, and that is usually something that happens at home, or close to home. It's mostly LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION...so many of the places that have high murder rates in whole or in part are some of the larger cities, where segregation and discrimination (especially in housing) over the years has caused clusters of nationalities and/or races within specific neighborhoods. Furthermore, the human tendency of networking often means that people from one or two specific countries will tend to cluster into neighborhoods (such as Armenians in Los Angeles, Somalis in Minneapolis, Chinese in Vancouver, etc.).
Of course if a black person is murdered, it will probably be by another black person...simply because must murders take place close to home, OR take place against somebody who the murderer knew previously. Exactly the same, if a white person is murdered, it is probably a white person who did the murder...again, because of VICINITY...and because white people tend to live where other white people live. If a Pakistani is murdered at Devon and Western in Chicago, the murderer is probably not American, and is very unlikely to be black - most likely the murderer is from the southwest quadrant of Asia (which includes India to the Middle East) - again, it has to do with where people live. If a Polish man is murdered in Cheektowaga, New York (the most Polish USA city), it will most likely be a Pole who is the murderer...I can substitute any ethnicity I want (ASSUMING that it's in a neighborhood that is significantly large with a dominant demographic). Mexicans kill each other in their neighborhood, Swedes kill each other in Swedish neighborhoods, etc. Never mind some crime rates may be small, but whatever the dominant demographic of any neighborhood is, those will usually be the people who harm each other. This is so, not only because of the concentration of a given demographic in a neighborhood/area, but because people (yes, including WASP's) tend to know more people from their own demographic...and, if they are involved in illegal activity such as dealing drugs, they're also more likely to trust "their own kind."
Of course this is true in foreign countries as well. Though the murder rate is low, it's usually Japanese killing Japanese in Japan, Ghanans killing Ghanans, Swiss killing Swiss, etc.
So, yes, black people are usually killed by other black people. Why would it be any different for black people than any other demographic group?
None of the above addresses police killings. "All bets are off" on that, because that job tends to attract A-Type personalities who are strongly dogmatic, and I'd bet anything that racism is far more common in police than even the general population. Very often, racists LOVE their guns...
I don't wish for such a sanitized world. Our race often is married to our cultural heritage, so removing all signs of it isn't the goal.
I moved out of small-town Illinois to ESCAPE a rather homogeneous culture, even despite a University being here. In a seven minute walk from the entrance of the high rise I live in, at a busy time of day, I can almost guarantee (if I actually had a way to know, in some cases) that I will see at least 13 of these 15 nationalities/origins of people:
white (of some kind of Western European heritage) (the most common SINGLE demographic)
black (the next-most-common; am including American and non-native)
Jewish (probably the third-most-common)
Mexican/Central American (or, instead of Jewish, may be third most common)
Japanese
Indian/Pakistani [Asia]
Indians [Native American]
Russian
Chinese
Thai
Vietnamese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian
Pacific Islander
I relish this entirely. Within that seven minute walk, I'm aware of shops or restaurants which are owned or worked by ten of these fifteen, and I very often hear sidewalk conversations in languages entirely unknown to me. It is all good, and it's beautiful!
