Don't you ever say 'black on black crime' again

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141. The disparity exists

because the objective black experience in America is not the same as the objective white experience in America. As such, it is disingenuous to compare the two populations murder rates and say it's a problem inherent to blacks, regardless of whether or not their demographic is disproportionately affected in terms of murders per total population.

You bring up black vs white population in cities, but not outside of them. Again, if the majority of your population is centered in an urban area, it is going to be disproportionately impacted by problems that affect urban areas.

You make no mention of Sundown Towns or segregation.

You make no mention of the fact that blacks are paid less than whites.

You make no mention of greater unemployment rates in cities, let alone among blacks.

You make no mention of higher poverty rates among the black population.

You make no mention of racial-based hiring practices long established to be in existence in the US.

You make no mention of predatory lending practices that led to the Great Recession. These practices targeted blacks for loans they would be unable to afford, causing a collapse in black Net Wealth and driving many from home ownership to rentals. (Rent is now well past the mark of affordability for the average American.)

You make no mention of discriminatory police practices, for-profit prisons, the school to prison pipeline, underfunded city and minority heavy school districts or access to medical or support social services.

You can spit numbers out all you want. They mean very little on their own other than a public health crisis that isn't being addressed because this is a complex social issue that boils down to more than the skin color of murderer and victim.

Labeling is indeed the problem when it is an easy out born of laziness and fails to address the problem. The idea that if everyone just tries hard enough, they will get to the finish line eventually does hold true... but only if we, collectively, as Americans, admit that not everyone has to run as far to the finish as white males.