Jennifer R. Povey
1 min readApr 16, 2021

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Here, have some evidence:

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

This is a scientific paper that demonstrates that the highest risk of being killed by the police is faced by Black men. It's a leading cause of death.

Ah, but your excuse is that Black people are more likely to be criminals. You're not alone. Here's an article that investigates the relationship between neighborhood racial compsition and *perceptions* of levels of crime.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/pager/files/ajs_quillianpager.pdf

The article controls for actual crime rates and still comes up with "white people think Black people commit more crimes."

That's a symptom of systematic racism. You are a fish in water, sir, and the water is systematic racism.

What affects crime rates is poverty. Black people are more likely to be poor and that poverty is generational and caused primarily by racism. Look up Black Wall Street some time. Look what happens when Black people find wealth and success.

Consider the fact that Black New Yorkers are twice as likely to be stopped by the police. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/nyregion/nypd-arrests-race.html) The cops claim it comes from calls, but racist white people call the cops on Black people for no good reason all the time.

You are racist, sir, and it's time to unpack that and look at the facts.

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Jennifer R. Povey
Jennifer R. Povey

Written by Jennifer R. Povey

I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.

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