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WHEN WHITES REPEATEDLY POST BLACK CRIME STATS

On every social media site in every comment section under every fight video (particularly when race is involved), & CCTV robbery. You will see someone who has posted the statistic that 'blacks commit 60% of all violent crime despite being only 13% of the population."

Or you'll see this post... Black men, are just 6% of the US Population, but commit HALF of all murders (FBI homicide data)

If not that exact post, then something very similar.

Usually posted by a white male with conservative views.

The stereotype of Black people as lazy was systematically promoted by former slaveholders, pro-slavery politicians, and economists in the 19th century, particularly in the post-Civil War era. source

This propaganda was used to justify continued exploitation and to deny formerly enslaved people economic and social equality. 

This racist myth has roots dating back to the start of slavery in America and was reinforced over centuries. source

The purpose of the stereotype

During slavery, the laziness myth was used to justify the brutal system of forced labor and dehumanize enslaved people. After slavery was abolished, it was used to: 

Justify oppressive laws. The "lazy" stereotype was a key rationale for implementing Jim Crow laws and Black Codes, which forced Black people into labor systems like debt peonage, convict leasing, and sharecropping.

Whites know by heart the negative stats about black people (like crime) and repeat them daily. But do they know the negative crime statistics about white people?

In the context of crime statistics, White individuals are arrested more often for violent crimes than individuals of any other race. In 2019, White individuals accounted for 59.1 percent of those arrested for violent crimes. source

• Studies analyzing "lone wolf" domestic terrorists—individuals who act primarily on their own—show a majority are white, though perpetrators from other racial backgrounds also commit such acts. source

• White individuals account for a significant proportion of drug use and drug-related arrests in the United States.

  
  

• For example, national surveys have consistently shown that white Americans use illicit drugs at similar or higher rates than Black Americans, yet Black individuals have historically been arrested and incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates. source

  
  

Crimes where white offenders are more represented than…