ALL RISE
This Mornings lesson:
THE 13 PERCENT EXCUSE (99th edition)
This ignorant argument made by racists needs to stop.
I am a black man. As such I have for some reason become number one enemy of the state just for living here. There are very dangerous beliefs held by whites about us and in my view, it is time these opinions ended. Since whites think we are so adept at killing, in this post, we will kill a favorite lie of "conservative" whites when we look at overall and violent crimes. That would be the 13 percent excuse.
Back in the day before calculators when we had to add, subtract, multiply and divide by writing with a number 2 pencil on a big chief tablet, the bigger number meant things occurred more. Playing sports for example, the team who had the most points at the end of the game was the winner. Two hamburgers were always more than one. We had symbols that made things clear such as 9 > 1 or 2< 7. But today among some types of people the larger number is no indication of a bigger problem. 2 million now is > 7 million because if we divide that 2 million into a per 100,000 person rate, then the 2 million produces the higher rate. Now less than has become more than in order to satisfy confirmation bias of a particular section of the white community. The racists.
Certainly, every black person who has tried to have any type of discussion with whites about race has heard this sad excuse made by whites to deny the truth of what annual FBI Uniform Crime Reports show to the nation. That whites are arrested more than all others and that whites commit the most crimes of anyone living in America.
People who choose to deny that high crime existing in white communities often try justifying their denial by using per capita. This is an excuse and a weak one at that. The term "per capita" is a Latin phrase meaning "per person". It is used to determine the average per person in a given situation. Per capita divides a statistical measurement for an occurrence by population. Measurement / Population = per capita. When measuring things like the incidence or prevalence of events that occur, per capita is reported as per 100,000. Per Capita has been used to statistically skews events to make a small number of occurrences into a large number that exaggerates certain crimes in non white neighborhoods The 2019 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 366 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants, and the estimated rate of property crime was 2,109.9 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. Whites lead in both these categories relative to actual numbers of cases. Yet due to the larger white population the number per 100,000 was smaller.
Coincidently this argument is not used in such instances as for example college entrance test scores. The fact that 4-5 times more whites take the test is never thought about being the reason whites would have the most high scores. But that is not the subject of this chapter so let me continue on about per capita.
So you divide the number of occurrences by the population and you get a number. Once you get that number you multiply it by 100,000 to come up with per capita. This number twisting is what members of the racists subgroup in the white community use to make claims about the black crime rate. According to the 2019 Uniform Crime Reports Expanded Homicide data, 2594 whites committed 3,299 murders and 2574 blacks committed 2,906 murders. The number clearly shows that 20 more whites committed 393 more murders than did blacks. Instead of facing this problem and working to fix it, you have whites doing this:
3299/234,370,202 x 0.0000140760215 = 1.4 murders per capita.
2906/40,610,815 x 0.0000715572933 = 7.15 per capita.
If the amount of crime in your community is so high that you must divide two numbers to get a percentage then multiply it by 100,000 to claim that you don’t have serious problems, you have serious problems. Now since the racist contention is usually based on violent crime most specifically murder, when we look at the rate of such crime by per capita, it shows that 99,993 black people out of 100,000 will not be murdered. That is just 6 fewer people than whites. Therefore the claim of astronomically high crime in the black community is not so, even if you use per capita as a basis to make claims.
The per capita argument rests upon using fractured math. Who decided that occurrences must be divided by 100,000. Why couldn’t it be 1? What happened to individualism? There are whites who are really good at looking for excuses, but none really exist. The excuse begins with whites being 5 times the population of blacks. I was told that since whites have 5 times the population they must commit 5 times the number of crimes to be equal to that of blacks. “We are allowed to commit more crime because there are more of us.” If this is not lunacy then what is?
I say this because there are whites who want to multiply things by 5 instead of looking at the fact they have a problem. But if you multiply things by 5 to make the populations the same, there are things that no longer exist for blacks. We would have more economic opportunity. We would have equal representation relative to numbers of police, lawyers, judges and political representatives. Things would be dramatically different. Yet that same group of whites fail to understand this. No matter what, they will continue arguing this ridiculous per capita idiocy. They do this only on race and crime, other disproportionate issues based on per capita are ignored. A fine example are the statements by MaryL.
Since whites have 5 times the population and want to make that an issue, let’s start multiplying by 5. Blacks have over 2 million businesses right now, let’s multiply that by 5 and then see what the outcome will be. Now there are 10 million black owned businesses and more jobs in the black community. Let’s reduce our unemployment rate by 5 to 2.6 percent. Blacks live at a 24 percent rate of poverty lets reduce that by 5 to make it 4.5 percent. Funny how there are whites who can only multiply when it comes to crimes. Let’s keep multiplying folks.
The black economy now grows to 6.5 trillion instead of the 1.3 trillion we have now. Blacks now have 5 times the amount of money to spend and invest. What happens them? All kinds of community development, that’s what. Now property values increase in the black community and because of that we have more money for our schools. Let’s multiply the number of blacks who go to college by 5, there are now 8.5 million blacks in college or get vocational training. That equals approximately 1 out of every 5 black citizen receiving some kind of post secondary training. This results in a more highly trained and qualified black workforce which increases employment So this increase in population and jobs lowers the unemployment rate meaning fewer blacks are on government assistance because they have stable employment. Youth crime is reduced because you have facilities and jobs available for them in their immediate communities. What happens to crime? It reduces itself by 5 from 26 percent to 5.2 percent. Why? because the factors that create crime are reduced, so then crime is reduced. Yet to the racist nothing else changes. The only change is crime increases. The use of per capita fails miserably and is used by racist whites to deny a severe crime problem THEY need to address instead of trying to preach to us. For if we apply per capita like the racists do, when a white person has 500 dollars and I have 100, we have the same amount of money.
End of part 1.
