T or F: black males are only 6% of the population in the US but commit more than half the murders.
Answer truthfully before deciding that white fear of black men is based on lies and myths.
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November 19th is International Men’s Day and an opportunity to raise awareness about issues faced by marginalized men. As a group, black men remain hugely under-privileged. In fact, their life expectancy remains much lower than the national average; almost a decade lower than white women. This suggests that the social environment is still highly toxic for black men.
I learned a considerable amount about issues faced by black men while working as an honorary faculty member at Howard University, a historically black college in Washington D.C. During this time, the students taught me about the reality of being black in America. One unforgettable phrase they taught me, which is relatively unknown outside of the black community, is ‘Blame a Black Man Syndrome’.
What is Blame a Black Man Syndrome?
Blame a Black Man Syndrome describes a common tendency to falsely accuse a black man of a crime or misconduct. It can take two forms.
Firstly, it can refer to generic racial hoaxes, where an accuser blames an imaginary black man for a non-existent crime. Famous examples include Susan Smith, who alleged that a black man carjacked her vehicle and kidnapped her sons, when in fact she had murdered her children herself. Another is Bonnie Sweeten, who claimed that she and her daughter were kidnapped by two black men when she was actually vacationing in Florida.
Secondly, it can involve accusations against a named but innocent black man. Famous examples include football player Brian Banks, who spent five years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Another is Patrick Lumumba, whose life was ruined when Amanda Knox falsely accused him of murder.
The Innocence Project
These are the famous cases, but there are thousands of lesser-known cases where black men have been wrongly convicted. We know this due to the excellent work of the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization that painstakingly re-examines DNA (and other) evidence from guilty verdicts, bringing vital new information back to the legal system.
With very limited resources, the Innocence Project and other justice advocates have conducted inquiries leading to the exoneration of over 2 000 individuals, all listed in the National Registry of Exonerations. Data from the University of Michigan indicate that black men constitute over 40% of these exonerations, despite making up only 6% of the U.S. Population.
Further analysis indicates that innocent black men are seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white men. Likewise, innocent black men are four times more likely to be convicted of sexual assault than innocent white men. Granular-level analysis indicates that miscarriages of justice are most common when the accuser is a white woman.
Indeed, in a seminal article on ‘Blame a Black Man Syndrome’, Dr. Nsenga Burton notes that “Law-enforcement agencies pull out all the stops when a white woman says a black man has committed a crime against her”; this zeal can lead to witch-hunts which often result in miscarriages of justice.
The Consequences
A small amount of research has examined the psychological consequences for men who have been falsely accused. Unsurprisingly, they reveal ruined lives, social alienation and very high levels of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Some studies indicate that the psychological damage is similar to that seen in torture survivors. Some of these factors are discussed in the video below.
What is more difficult to measure is the effect on the black community as a whole. Racial hoaxes are a painful reminder that many people still hold nefarious stereotypes of black men. Likewise, regular miscarriages of justice illuminate the ongoing reality of systematic racial biases in policing and jurisprudence. All of this can contribute to a climate of anxiety and fear, perpetuating justifiable mistrust of societal institutions in the black community.
The Way Ahead
The work of the Innocence Project indicates that black men do not stand on a level playing field when faced with legal sanction, especially where the accuser is white. This implies that changes are needed in the system to further prevent miscarriages of justice and protect defendants’ rights.
This is particularly pertinent in today’s world, given that online lynch mobs, organized pressure groups, and hyperbolic media are often baying for blood when a man is accused of a crime. This may be especially so when that man is black.
Justice is rarely color-blind, especially when dealing with black men. Just ask the family of Emmett Till. Let’s not forget this as we celebrate International Men’s Day.
T or F: black males are only 6% of the population in the US but commit more than half the murders.
Answer truthfully before deciding that white fear of black men is based on lies and myths.
Milton,milton,milton???where are you getting this information from? If we added up all the people killed on American soil by whites and compared it to the number of people killed on American soil by blacks , the number killed by blacks would pale in comparison..your an idiot for even suggesting such nonsense!
Note(please do not reply back to me because you are obviously a delusional maniac!)
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In order for blacks to kill as much as whites it would take hmmm let's see
Maybe 20 to 100 million natives in America
10 to 20 million in the Congo
Million upon millions in Australia
Then we would have to decimate the populations of Mexico , hispaniola,hmmmm
Do u want me to keep going because I ain't even getting warm yet milton!!!!!
Idiot!
"In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involved Blacks and Whites, Blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a Black person was 27 times more likely to attack a White person than vice versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa."
If New York City were all White, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.
In an all-White Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.
In 2013, a Black was six times more likely than a nonblack to commit murder, and 12 times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone of another race.
Have you ever mistreated anyone because they were not white?
So what you are saying is that the reason white people have murdered more people of all races more than any race has ever done in the history of the world, where comparisons literally do not even come close and are still even today are still killing more people than any other race of people on the planet only did this because there was some black person that caused them to react at every point through history. Or is it more likely that many of these white people as shown time and time again in social media clips, literally lie about everything, are charged even when innocent and are tossed around by rags by the police, even shot when unarmed and compliant? Which sounds more logical to you? And how do you not expect any black crime at all when black neighborhoods were removed for highways, when blacks were forced out of their homes so the white man can make expensive housing, when Tulsa's black wall street was decimated, when the government moved thugs and drug dealers into black neighborhoods during the Vietnam war when most of the prominent black men weren't there to prevent it. When those same men were encouraged to take drugs at war and came back to their neighborhoods with PTSD, no social help or rehab help like whites had in their neighborhoods, and then were demonized and thrown in prison for even looking at the drugs the government made them addicted to. I mean who even had the money to put those drugs in those neighborhoods? Historically poor blacks that white people put down time and time again? Now those black men are all in prison or dead from drugs and who is supposed to raise the children who grow up in the same neighborhoods? And still whites have to put up bogus stats even after its obvious numbers in black crime are skewed. Better watch out when Jesus comes back because He isn't returning as a lamb.
Dr. Whitley
I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room: the lack of black fathers. No matter what anyone wants to think, every study that has looked at the issue comes to the same conclusion: with a 70% rate of unmarried births, the black male is doomed. Boys need fathers and baby daddies don't count. Sports heroes and musicians who have kids with a score of different women need to be called out and shamed by the black community. They are anti role models and need to be treated as such. Lets kneel to protest the carnage that is happening every day in the black community. 1000 black boys die at the hands of other fatherless black boys for every one that is killed by a cop. Let's get real. Stop the silence.
It's not just Black men. It is a concerted effort by intersectional feminism to demonize all Men.
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