I'm not sure if this is the place to engage meaningfully around common-sense misconceptions about race, class, and so forth in the US.
That said: "the majority of crime is committed by Black people" is something that I'd like to call out. Can you provide sources? How do you define crime? For example: white people are far more likely to deal drugs, but Black people are far more likely to get arrested for dealing drugs. [0]. The same article, and its cited bits, digs further into the old "black people do more criming" canard.
Your re-exercising of the "black on black" meme is also pretty tired. First of all: there's a lot of people doing a lot of stuff to improve that (c.f., My Brother's Keeper [1], an initiative that President Obama started and the right conveniently forgets every time they blow their dog whistles about the President and black-on-black crime). Secondly: not relevant to the discussion about the fact that Police seem to kill Black people every day, for reasons that we would be screaming about to the rafters if those victims of homicide were White.
Finally, can we at least agree on the statistics? Actually, not really: Law Enforcement in the US is really reluctant (one can only wonder why) about how many people they kill every day. Some crowd-sourced attempts to stitch together local reports into a national database [2] indicate that in 2014, the number works out to be about three people per day killed by LEO. That number is ridiculously high. The vast majority of these people are not white. LEO in many other "western" countries don't do this - in the UK in 2014 police killed one person, total. In Germany: none.
So, should we be distracted by your handwavy "black people deserve killing by police" narrative (because that's what you're actually saying), or could we at least agree that the police seem to be a direct and active threat to the lives and safety of People of Color in this country? It's not like this is a surprise - it hasn't been that long since the 1960s, and you see what we did back then. It's just nowadays people get offended when you point out that our national institutions are largely racist, just ever so slightly less overt about it than before.
That said: "the majority of crime is committed by Black people" is something that I'd like to call out. Can you provide sources? How do you define crime? For example: white people are far more likely to deal drugs, but Black people are far more likely to get arrested for dealing drugs. [0]. The same article, and its cited bits, digs further into the old "black people do more criming" canard.
Your re-exercising of the "black on black" meme is also pretty tired. First of all: there's a lot of people doing a lot of stuff to improve that (c.f., My Brother's Keeper [1], an initiative that President Obama started and the right conveniently forgets every time they blow their dog whistles about the President and black-on-black crime). Secondly: not relevant to the discussion about the fact that Police seem to kill Black people every day, for reasons that we would be screaming about to the rafters if those victims of homicide were White.
Finally, can we at least agree on the statistics? Actually, not really: Law Enforcement in the US is really reluctant (one can only wonder why) about how many people they kill every day. Some crowd-sourced attempts to stitch together local reports into a national database [2] indicate that in 2014, the number works out to be about three people per day killed by LEO. That number is ridiculously high. The vast majority of these people are not white. LEO in many other "western" countries don't do this - in the UK in 2014 police killed one person, total. In Germany: none.
So, should we be distracted by your handwavy "black people deserve killing by police" narrative (because that's what you're actually saying), or could we at least agree that the police seem to be a direct and active threat to the lives and safety of People of Color in this country? It's not like this is a surprise - it hasn't been that long since the 1960s, and you see what we did back then. It's just nowadays people get offended when you point out that our national institutions are largely racist, just ever so slightly less overt about it than before.
0: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/w...
1: https://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper
2: http://www.killedbypolice.net/kbp2014.html