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If you look at the Uniform Crime Reports filed by the FBI every year, whites account for between sixty-five to seventy percent of all arrests annually. They commit between forty-five and fifty-one percent of the murders depending upon the year. They account for over sixty percent of arrests for rapes and assaults for most years. These are violent crimes. The right-wing media and “conservative” individuals inside of the media have promoted a narrative of Black-on-Black crime, then try tying it to unwed births or the lack of two parents in the house.
How News Outlets Help Convince You That Most Criminals Are Black
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How News Outlets Help Convince You That Most Criminals Are Black
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The Dangerous Racialization of Crime in U.S. News Media
The media’s overrepresentation of violent crime is feeding America’s distorted perception of lawlessness.
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