Here is a thought experiment: two criminals (one Black and one white) rob and bank, and drive away in a car. They start randomly shooting people out of the window of the get away car, without looking if the victims are Black or white. Each kills 5 people, basically reflecting the demographic makeup of America, so 4 whites and 1 Black.
One might claim that proves Blacks are more racist. The Black criminal did kill 4 whites, while the white criminal only killed 1 Black. In reality, our hypothetical criminals are not basing their killing on race at all. It is just random chance of their killings.
If it were just random chance in general, we would expect four times the chance of Black on white murders as white on Black murders... Which is not happening. For some reason whites are more likely to murder Blacks than the other way around.
My theory is that it is not direct racism. People kill their neighbors, families, and friends. They rarely go far from their comfort zone and kill other people. So think of a white in an [almost] all Black neighborhood, he is probably very poor, and more likely to murder someone. Now think of a Black in an [almost] all white neighborhood, he is probably doing well for himself, and far less likely to murder someone.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
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