Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for September 06, 2014

“Attacking police or civilians” will include raising your hands and begging “please don’t shoot!”

The New Century Foundation lays it out: “Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery. . . . Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.”It’s more than a white on black problem. You can call me a hater, but the stats are the stats.

It was put to me that there are many times more blacks in prison than whites because they commit more crime. I didn’t argue that because I didn’t have any facts to rely on. My response was simply that blacks are far more likely to be arrested, tried, found guilty, and imprisoned than their white counterparts.

So the statistics actually know who committed every murder in the U.S.? And yet so many of them are officially ‘unsolved’ by the police. There’s your scandal!

Either that, or the statistics only show who goes to jail, which is actually a different matter from who does the crimes.

great cartoon

Some of you people are pathetic. If you’re such a troll and a hater, why read Dancing Bug when you could be burning a cross and dragging your knuckles across the mall floor?

@IslamoradaGirlI think I’m in love with you.

In some universe that exists only in the most fevered imaginations, a cherry-picked bag of questionable statistics justifies shooting an unarmed man in the back because of his race—and celebrates all the subsequent attempts by media hacks to smear the deceased and even his survivors, including but hardly limited to posting deliberately altered medical documents—and this is NOT RACIST AT ALL. Nope. Not even a bit.

If you look at the FBI statistics (the basis for most of these “facts”), there are two things to note that haven’t been mentioned:.1. The 2011 African American murder rate is about half of the 1991 African American murder rate. An excellent trend..2. From the 2011 data, 91% of African American murders were committed by African Americans. 83% of white murders were committed by whites. With regard to murder, you should be more afraid of someone you know of your own race, including your family, than a random person of another race.

I lived for three years in Hialeah when it was still almost completely Cuban. During those three years I was mugged twice, cheated twice, and had three attempts at breaking into my apartment foiled by watchful neighbors. One mugging was by a white teenager, from a gang living in an abandoned warehouse near the Metrorail station. The other six “events” were perpetrated by black people. What conclusions would you have me draw from this?

That’s right, Ruben, it’s all Whitey’s fault.

Race, poverty, criminality and cultural values are all tied up in a complex knot of chicken-and-egg paradoxes. Blacks, police, politicians, rednecks and corporate executives all have their own world views and subcultural values. All of us are subject to confirmation bias when we evaluate our data sources.Are Blacks more likely to be arrested and convicted than Whites? Almost certainly. Does that mean that they are more likely to indulge in criminal behavior? Probably but… maybe not as much as the arrest rates would seem to indicate. Police, as often as the rest of us, will search for an answer where the light is best. Statistics based on arrests necessarily ignore unreported and unsolved crimes. In a world where half of the murders go unsolved and most rapes go unreported, arrest statistics have a huge margin of error making them a potentially unreliable source of data on violent crime. We all have opinions and we should recognize that they are not the same as facts.

He insists on taking ALL the umbrage.

This cartoon never mentioned “white privilege”.And white privilege has very little to do with how you’re treated by individual non-whites. (Even if they’re racist, or @ssholes, or just cranky.)