How to lie with "statistics", enough with the lies!

The madness continues.  A friend on Facebook recently posted that 90 percent of crime was black on white in the United States, or even worse, he is hard to follow sometimes, that 90% of crime in the U.S. is committed by African-Amerians.

When I challenged him on this absurd claim, he quoted the FBI statistics and some off the wall web site that actually chronicles every crime they can find by African-Americans.  Of course there are pages after pages of crimes.  Of course the website is raging racist, and is no doubt  on the FBI List as a hate site.

But the real statistics have been fairly constant over the years.  A Caucasian is far more likely to be a crime victim by a fellow Caucasian.  The FBI hate crimes, racial crimes based on racist hate, shows almost a two to one preponderance of whites attacking blacks than the other way around.

Census figures are hard to ignore here.  African Americans make up about 12 percent of American's population.  For there to be a even close to majority of crime against whites is simply statistically impossible.  And to commit 90% of all crime is ridiculous!

But, the racists wold have you believe otherwise.  They push the idea that a black person is always a potential criminal, and that my friends is profiling.

And it is profiling without any statistical backing.

Now, if a person of Swedish descent, decides to walk the streets of Hunters' Point and hurl racist slurs at citizens, he will probably get his ass kicked.

To the racist that is again proof that African-Americans are more violent, more prone to criminal behavior.

And there are a disproportionate number of young African American males incarcerated in American jails.  But that is a product of the racial profiling that immediately suspects blacks, that is quick to detain, to question yes, to convict.

The vast majority of black youth incarcerated are for drugs and non-violent offenses.  In fact, many of them are in jail for marijuana, which is legal in some states.

But, my facebook buddy felt compelled to throw out unsubstantiated "facts" that prove blacks are more "dangerous" than whites, and should be feared.

Little wonder Trevon Martin was killed.  The hatred and seething racism of a person who you would never guess is a racist in his heart, always takes me aback.

In Redding, it is still ok to be a bigot in may quarters.  Redding, and the surrounding rural towns, are filled with reactionaries, who act like it is 1920.

And so lying with statistics, using a blatantly racist web site to "prove" that blacks are more criminal , is the claim.

We cannot tolerate this crap.  I distancing myself from any more dialogue with Gary, and will defriend if I have to.

I have found that the only thing a racist understands is for good people to say ENOUGH!