“Blacks make up approximately 13% of the US population while they commit 52% of crime. In 2013 according to the FBI, 90% of black homicide victims were killed by other black people. HERE.
“The verdict
“There is evidence in the official police-recorded figures that black Americans are more likely to commit certain types of crime than people of other races.
“While it would be naïve to suggest that there is no racism in the US criminal justice system, victim reports don’t support the idea that this is because of mass discrimination. HERE.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved. … After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets, how humiliating.” ― Jesse Jackson
Rev Jackson made those remarks at a meeting of Operation PUSH in Chicago (27 November 1993).
It is more than humiliating; it is tragic, it is deadly. And that’s not racist, that’s the truth.
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