Black on White Crime Not a Major Issue

False Assumption: Black on White crime in the United States is not a socially important issue.

Summaries Written by FARAgent (AI) on March 09, 2026 · Pending Verification

For decades, respectable opinion treated black on white crime as a marginal subject, sometimes as a distraction, sometimes as a racial provocation. That view did not come from nowhere. The largest burden of violent crime plainly fell on black communities themselves, interracial violence was statistically less common than intraracial violence, and the country had a long, real history of white violence against blacks, from lynching to segregation to police abuse. In that setting, a reasonable person could conclude that the socially important story was white racism and black victimization, and that talk about black offenders and white victims was often a pretext for old prejudices in new clothes.

From the late 1960s on, that assumption hardened into convention. Elite culture romanticized black radicalism, even when figures like Eldridge Cleaver had written plainly about violence, and the press gave far more moral weight to crimes that fit the familiar script than to those that did not. By the 1990s and 2000s, critics such as Jared Taylor pushed interracial crime statistics into public debate, usually in ways that made mainstream institutions even less willing to touch the subject. The result was a long habit of silence: white victims of black offenders were rarely treated as a distinct public concern, and discussion of the pattern was often folded into arguments about racism, mass incarceration, or media bias rather than victimization itself.

Now a growing body of evidence suggests the old confidence was too simple. Federal victimization data have long shown nontrivial levels of black on white violent crime, and recent work, including a 2024 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report, argues that minority victims often receive unequal services because agencies carry stereotypes about who counts as vulnerable and deserving. An influential minority of researchers and commentators now argue that the old taboo distorted both coverage and policy, leaving some victims undercounted, underserved, or treated as politically inconvenient. The debate is still live, in part because the subject remains entangled with race politics, but it is increasingly recognized that dismissing black on white crime as socially unimportant was not a neutral judgment.

Status: A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false

People Involved

Rochelle M. Garza chaired the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights when it issued its 2024 briefing report on racial disparities in victim services. She transmitted the document that documented how federal programs under the Victims of Crime Act delivered less compensation and support to Black victims than to others in identical circumstances. Her warning about systemic biases and data gaps went largely unheeded by the commission majority. The report called for better granular data collection on homicide risks that fall disproportionately on young Black men. ^[1]
Jared Taylor founded the New Century Foundation and edited American Renaissance. He published The Color of Crime in 1999 and updated it with later Bureau of Justice Statistics figures showing that 90 percent of interracial violence between Blacks and Whites involved Black offenders. Taylor announced the original findings on C-SPAN and continued to highlight cases that mainstream outlets ignored. He positioned himself as a race realist calling attention to patterns others dismissed as unimportant. His work drew condemnation from the Southern Poverty Law Center yet circulated among those frustrated by official silence. ^[19][26]
Eldridge Cleaver wrote the essays that became Soul on Ice while in prison. He confessed to raping Black women as practice for targeting White women as an act of racial insurrection yet framed the violence as righteous fury. Ramparts published his letters and he gained celebrity support that secured his parole in 1966. After release he became Minister of Information for the Black Panthers and led an ambush on Oakland police. He later renounced much of his earlier ideology, embraced Christianity, supported Ronald Reagan, struggled with crack addiction, and died in obscurity. ^[13][14]
Leonard Bernstein hosted a fundraiser for the Black Panthers at his Park Avenue duplex in 1970. He and his wife Felicia treated the militants as honored revolutionaries equivalent to cultural elites. The event drew Otto Preminger, Barbara Walters, and other New York society figures who wrote checks for bail and defense funds. Tom Wolfe's account in New York Magazine turned the gathering into a symbol of performative radicalism among the wealthy. The episode embarrassed liberal patrons once the Panthers' criminal charges became public. ^[16]

▶ Supporting Quotes (56)

“While these observations and suggestions were not formally adopted by the majority of the Commission, they reflect important insights gained through our investigation into the disparities in crime victimization.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“Asians for the next hundred years will never have neighborhoods as universally abominable as Ferguson or Compton, which is why Asians have deservedly received favorable mentions by openly racist men such as American Renaissance's Jared Taylor (although the last time I checked, he preferred to be called a race realist).”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“In 1965, he wrote to Beverly Axelrod, an attorney who had distinguished herself by volunteering to represent the Congress of Racial Equality, to seek her aid in hastening his release. Impressed by Cleaver and his writings, Axelrod ferried those texts to Ramparts”— Notes from Underground

“Supported by prominent editors, intellectuals, and Norman Mailer, Cleaver was freed in December 1966”— Notes from Underground

“Maxwell Geismar has called him “one of the new distinctive literary voices.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

““Rape,” he says, “was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man's law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“in his new book Rebellion or Revolution?, Harold Cruse says that economic and political revolution is unfeasible for the Negro in America, and he calls instead for a cultural upheaval, but with the warning that the black writer does not necessarily achieve universality by denying his ethnic base and that his only hope is to escape from the decadent standards of European civilization and go it on his own.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“To say, as Larry Neal does, that Native Son and Invisible Man are no longer particularly relevant to the new black attitude is to say that experience itself is not relevant to the black artist. ... Neal simply blots out literary memory. He says: What of craft—the writer’s craft? Well, under terms of a new definition concerning the function of literature, a new concept of what craft is will also evolve.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“Supported by prominent editors, intellectuals, and Norman Mailer, Cleaver was freed in December 1966”— Notes from Underground

“Maxwell Geismar has called him “one of the new distinctive literary voices.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“Today Cleaver is nationally known as the author of Soul on Ice, a widely read book of essays, as Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party in Oakland, as a defendant in an upcoming trial for parole violation . . . as candidate for President on the Peace and Freedom party ticket, and as a literary idol of the black nationalists.”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“Black Fire, an anthology edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, presents numerous examples of this quest to obliterate at last what W. E. B. DuBois called “the double consciousness” of the black man in America. Each poem and story, explicitly and self-consciously, makes it clear that its purpose is to define and glorify an attitude toward race that is all of a piece and all of a color.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“What I find disheartening in the representative fiction, poetry, and drama of Black Fire is that the writers do just the opposite: for all their febrile rage, they are still playing off and defining themselves against the white world”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“Leonard Bernstein woke up in the dark in a state of wild alarm... He could see himself, Leonard Bernstein, the egregio maestro, walking out on stage in white tie and tails... with an anti-war message.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“She greets the Black Panthers with the same bend of the wrist, the same tilt of the head, the same perfect Mary Astor voice with which she greets people like Jason, D.D. Adolph, Betty, Gian Carlo.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“That huge Black Panther there... is Robert Bay, who just 41 hours ago was arrested in an altercation with the police... and now he is out on bail and walking into Leonard and Felicia Bernstein’s 13-room penthouse duplex.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“Vance is the best-selling author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, which is a culturally compliant—namely unflattering—account of poor, white America.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“Vance all but advertises that the Indian-American Brahmin he wed has helped “rid him of his hillbilly ways.” ... Credits and kudos go to the Chilukuris, wife Usha’s relatives, for “[teaching] him what a functional family looked like.””— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

““Hillbilly Elegy’s portrayal of Appalachia,” explains Chambers, “is designed to elevate Vance above the community from which he came … it seeks to tell his story in a way that aligns with a simplistic rags-to-riches narrative.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“Vance opposes illegal immigration alone, even though its effects on the country are as pernicious as the legal and annual importation of over 1 million immigrants from India, China and other parts of the Third World.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“According to press reports, a white man, 33-year-old Brett Maness, killed his neighbor, a 32-year-old black man Delbert White, after a brief struggle.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Watch Jared Taylor’s June 2,1999, announcement on C-SPAN of the publication of The Color of Crime (video).”— The Color of Crime

“Justification for the validity of this practice can be traced to the research of Michael Hindelang (1978).”— Race, economic inequality, and violent crime

“Sponsored by the New Century Foundation, an organ of white separatist author Jared Taylor, The Color of Crime is being circulated in hard copy and via the Web site of Taylor’s magazine American Renaissance.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Around the nation, white supremacists and their fellow travelers are brandishing copies of a 1999 booklet that purports to show that whites have every reason to be terrified of blacks. For people from former Klansman David Duke to an array of neo-Confederates, The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Violence in America has become a kind of Bible that shows them that they were right all along.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“In this latter publication, Taylor’s co-author is Glayde Whitney, a Florida professor who recently wrote a positively glowing introduction to Duke’s racist and anti-Semitic autobiography.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Medical historian David Musto (1973) claimed that substance abuse has long been identified with minority groups already feared by White (non-Hispanic) Americans during times of social crises.”— cobbina (2008)

“Cohen (1972) was the first to formally identify a “moral panic,” which is conceptualized as occurring when the majority perceives one social group or type of activity as threatening the stability of society.”— cobbina (2008)

“Reinarman and Levine (1997) attributed this fear to anticipated retaliation by African American cocaine users for lynching, legal segregation, and Jim Crow restrictions.”— cobbina (2008)

“By Callie Rennison, Ph.D. BJS Statistician”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“Last June, Jared Taylor, president of New Century Foundation in Oakton, Va., held a press conference at Washington's National Press Club to report on the foundation's recently released study, ''The Color of Crime.''”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“If there's to be racial goodwill and harmony, at the minimum we must be willing to confront sometimes ugly truths. One of those truths has to do with interracial crime.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Buchanan, citing Taylor’s fake statistics in 2007, wrote: “The real repository of racism in America — manifest in violent interracial assault, rape and murder — is to be found not in the white community, but the African-American community.””— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“White supremacists frequently like to manipulate crime statistics in order to claim that nonwhite minorities, particularly African-Americans, are far more crime-prone and the source of most violent crime against whites.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“Dylann Roof, the domestic terrorist who killed nine members of a Charleston church’s black congregation in June 2015, shouted during the rampage at his victims his belief that they were “killing us.” In his manifesto, he specifically cited the CofCC’s website and Taylor’s smear pamphlet as the source of his information.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“Rachel E. Morgan, Ph.D., BJS Statistician”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“On Sept. 5, 1989, President George H.W. Bush appeared on live television to discuss what he called the nation's 'gravest domestic threat.' Sitting at his desk in the oval office, Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine that had been seized in a park across from the White House, saying: 'It's as innocent looking as candy, but it's turning our cities into battle zones.'”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“Looking back now, author and journalist Donovan X. Ramsey describes Bush's press conference as a form of propaganda designed to create a panic about the crack epidemic and to 'demonize drug dealers and also addicts.'”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“A researcher named Ira Chasnoff in Chicago did one study of a handful of Black mothers who were cocaine users. And what he found after those mothers had given birth was that many of their babies had things like tremors and low birth weight, and they sort of struggled to meet benchmarks in their infancy.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“Charles Krauthammer, a columnist who was writing for the Post at the time, said that death would have been more suitable for these babies than to actually live.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“This is how you get Nancy Reagan on an episode of Diff'rent Strokes.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“Nixon’s successful presidential election campaign could point the way toward long-term political realignment and the building of a new Republican majority, if Republicans continued to campaign primarily on the basis of racial issues, using coded antiblack rhetoric.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Condemning “welfare queens” and criminal “predators,” he rode into office with the strong support of disaffected whites—poor and working-class whites who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party’s embrace of the civil rights agenda.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Clinton escalated the drug war beyond what conservatives had imagined possible a decade earlier. As the Justice Policy Institute has observed, “the Clinton Administration’s ‘tough on crime’ policies resulted in the largest increases in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.””— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“He argued in The Emerging Republican Majority, published in 1969, that Nixon’s successful presidential election campaign could point the way toward long-term political realignment and the building of a new Republican majority, if Republicans continued to campaign primarily on the basis of racial issues, using coded antiblack rhetoric.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“The political framing of crack cocaine was exacerbated in 1986 when the death of young, Black basketball star Len Bias, who was widely presumed to be caused by overdose, received significant mass media coverage. As a result, Bias unwittingly became a public symbol of the dangers of crack cocaine.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“Authors: Francesco P. Dirienzo University of Cincinnati Ben Feldmeyer University of Cincinnati”— The New Dawn of NIBRS: Race/Ethnicity and Crime Patterns and the NIBRS Transition

“Darrell Steffensmeier Ben Feldmeyer Casey T. Harris Jeffery T. Ulmer”— The New Dawn of NIBRS: Race/Ethnicity and Crime Patterns and the NIBRS Transition

“Interracial violence is rare in the United States. It just constantly gets shoved in our faces.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Statistics PhD student Kareem Carr criticized the chart in a thread. Among other criticisms, he pointed out that the vast majority of violent crime is same-race.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“A chart from the right-wing account “End Wokeness” got an especially large amount of attention.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Boston Mayor Kevin White offered a $5,000 reward... The mayor made a point of keeping all Boston schools open on Friday, claiming that despite the week’s double horror his city “is still the most livable, walkable, decent city in America.””— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

Organizations Involved

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights convened a briefing in 2024 that examined how federal victim services under the Victims of Crime Act operated. The resulting report documented biases that left Black victims with less compensation and support despite statutes requiring equitable administration. It highlighted data gaps that prevented accurate measurement of disparities in high-crime areas. The commission's own majority largely ignored the findings. The report noted that young Black men continued to face disproportionate homicide risk during the pandemic-era gun violence surge. ^[1]

The U.S. Department of Justice under the Obama administration stopped publishing readily accessible racial breakdowns in its National Crime Victimization Survey reports. Earlier editions had shown clear patterns of interracial offending. The change made it harder for the public and researchers to examine Black-on-White crime rates directly. Officials framed the shift as routine modernization. The move reinforced the institutional view that such statistics were not socially important. ^[6]

The New Century Foundation published The Color of Crime in 1999 and updated editions through American Renaissance. The organization compiled National Crime Victimization Survey and FBI data to document that Blacks committed the overwhelming majority of interracial violent crimes against Whites. It held a press conference that most major media outlets skipped. The foundation presented the numbers as official government statistics that contradicted prevailing narratives. Its work was labeled white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center yet continued to circulate online. ^[19][26]

The Bureau of Justice Statistics published successive reports on violent victimization by race from 1993 through 2015 and beyond. Its data consistently showed that interracial violence between Blacks and Whites was overwhelmingly Black-on-White. The 2012-2015 report by Rachel E. Morgan quantified rates and trends that challenged claims of rarity. Officials presented the figures without fanfare. The statistics sat in plain view while public discussion remained focused elsewhere. ^[30][28]

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“Our investigation reveals that the disparities in crime victimization are not merely statistical anomalies but are driven by systemic issues that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“why any useful racial crime statistics aren't readily available at the U.S. Department of Justice's National Victimization Report since Obama took office”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“Got that? There was a witness to the attack, McNerney’s friend, but no description of the perpetrators is supplied. The only statement on that we hear from the witness is that “he didn’t recognize the assailants.””— College running back killed by muggers

“You begin to wonder why any useful racial crime statistics aren't readily available at the U.S. Department of Justice's National Victimization Report since Obama took office”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“A nearly total silence from the mainstream media for years involving any atrocities committed by blacks or Arabs or Hispanics”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“TikTok has hit Remix News with our third suspension since we started posting on the social media giant approximately three months ago... Truth be told, it is the type of video that tends to do very well on TikTok when the roles are reversed. Any time a random White person says anything racist anywhere and is recorded, it is often uploaded to TikTok and spread across the platform, with such videos garnering millions of views”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“TikTok has hit Remix News with our third suspension since we started posting on the social media giant approximately three months ago”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“Impressed by Cleaver and his writings, Axelrod ferried those texts to Ramparts, the then-prominent Bay Area radical magazine, where they found immediate publication and were immediately celebrated.”— Notes from Underground

“the estimation of him, held across a broad but fragile spectrum ranging from the white left-liberals at the New York Review of Books to collegiate rebels to the nascent Black Power movement, as an eloquent, incisive, and above all authentic commentator”— Notes from Underground

“Almost the only people who had heard of him were those who read Ramparts, where some of his writings had been published, or those in touch with the radical literati, black and white, who had known for some time about this uncut literary diamond, this “talented black nationalist cat writing some really beautiful stuff out of a jail in California.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“today Cleaver is nationally known as the author of Soul on Ice, a widely read book of essays, as Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party in Oakland”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“publishing companies are ready to piece together anthologies with titles like Black Voices, Dark Symphony, Black Fire, etc., to help one to discover its essence.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“soon after, he became the minister of information for the newly founded Black Panthers.”— Notes from Underground

“Harassment & Hassles, Guns & Pigs, Jail & Bail—they’re real, these Black Panthers. The very idea of them, these real revolutionaries, who actually put their lives on the line.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“Every year since 1972, the U.S. Department of Justice has carried out what is called the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to determine the frequency of certain kinds of crimes.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Hispanics are considered a victim category for hate crimes but not a perpetrator category. A Mexican who is attacked because of ethnicity is recorded as Hispanic, but if the same Mexican attacks a black or white for racial reasons he is considered white.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“The Color of Crime, a New Century Foundation study based on federal crime reports, has found significant differences in violent crime rates for different racial and ethnic groups.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“New Century Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1994 to study immigration and race relations so as to better understand the consequences of America’s increasing diversity.”— The Color of Crime

“The contents of back issues of American Renaissance — along with key news items and other revelant materials — are available on-line here.”— The Color of Crime

“The Color of Crime is being circulated in hard copy and via the Web site of Taylor’s magazine American Renaissance.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“This dubious report, in slightly modified form, also has appeared in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, a periodical that is home to the writings of many “intellectuals” whose views about race are similar to Taylor’s.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Drawing from a content analysis of The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from 1985-1987 and 2001-2003, this study begins to explore this issue.”— cobbina (2008)

“According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (2002), after the initial “rush,” users become highly agitated and violent.”— cobbina (2008)

“Findings about homicide come from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“Jared Taylor, president of New Century Foundation in Oakton, Va., held a press conference at Washington's National Press Club to report on the foundation's recently released study, ''The Color of Crime.''”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Since 1972, the U.S. Department of Justice has conducted a National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to determine the frequency of certain crimes.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Roughly 400 members of the major print and electronic media were invited to the press conference on ''The Color of Crime.'' ... Only 14 people stayed for the briefing and only a couple reported on the study, most notably The Washington Times and C-SPAN.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and the Council of Conservative Citizens — all have made considerable hay out of proffering “studies” laden with risibly bad statistics and other evidence to make their case.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“In his manifesto, he specifically cited the CofCC’s website and Taylor’s smear pamphlet as the source of his information.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2012–2015.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“George H.W. Bush really wanted to start his administration with a bang and being tough on crime and was a big part of that. His office made a decision that they wanted to give a big address on drugs and they wanted to use crack cocaine as a prop.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“We had ongoing efforts in South and Central America, in countries like Nicaragua, where we wanted to support rebels, known as Contras in Nicaragua, to overthrow their government. ... So the U.S. government got creative — and this is well documented — through programs to actually deliver weapons to the Contras.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“They helped to fund the partnership for a Drug Free America, which produced lots of those really memorable commercials like the scrambled egg [PSA ad]: 'This is your brain on drugs.'”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“The success of law and order rhetoric among working-class whites and the intense resentment of racial reforms, particularly in the South, led conservative Republican analysts to believe that a “new majority” could be created by the Republican Party.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Democratic politicians and policy makers were now attempting to wrest control of the crime and drug issues from Republicans by advocating stricter anticrime and antidrug laws—all in an effort to win back the so-called “swing voters” who were defecting to the Republican Party.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“The U.S. government response at this time focused on managing the perceived crack cocaine epidemic by criminalizing rather than providing treatment facilities or healthcare services for people who use crack cocaine.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“In 2021, the FBI sought to retire the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Summary Reporting System (SRS) and fully transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).”— The New Dawn of NIBRS: Race/Ethnicity and Crime Patterns and the NIBRS Transition

“Data on interracial homicides is contained in Table 6.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“In 2019, the White population of the U.S. (alone or in combination with other races) was estimated at 258.65 million, while the Black population (alone or in combination) was 48.22 million.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Now let’s talk about non-fatal violence, which is what the Twitter debate was about. Here we go to the National Crime Victimization Survey for 2019.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“recently the racial feeling... grew so dangerous that authorities closed a public high school for two days... forcing jittery authorities to close it.”— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

The Foundation

The assumption that Black-on-White crime was not a socially important issue rested on several observations that appeared reasonable at the time. Media coverage heavily emphasized White-on-Black incidents such as the murder of James Byrd in Texas, which seemed to confirm that interracial violence flowed in one direction. Official hate crime statistics appeared to support the same picture because the FBI classified Hispanic offenders as White, inflating White perpetrator numbers. The National Crime Victimization Survey showed that most violent crime was intraracial, which made the interracial subset look statistically minor. A thoughtful observer in the 1990s or 2000s could conclude that focusing on Black-on-White cases risked inflaming racial tensions without addressing the larger problem of crime within communities. ^[18][20][35]

That picture began to fray when researchers examined the raw numbers more closely. The 1994 National Crime Victimization Survey recorded 1.7 million interracial crimes between Blacks and Whites, with 90 percent having White victims and Black perpetrators. Fewer than 20 percent of those incidents were robberies; most were assaults or rapes. The FBI's 2019 Expanded Homicide Data Table 6 listed 566 White victims killed by Black offenders and only 246 Black victims killed by White offenders. These figures appeared in official government tables yet received little public discussion. ^[26][20]

Later studies added nuance but did not erase the asymmetry. Bureau of Justice Statistics reports from 2012 to 2015 showed Black-on-White victimization rates at 3.1 per 1,000 Whites while White-on-Black rates were lower. Regression analyses found that poverty and education explained much of the overall crime difference, yet the interracial pattern remained after controls. The data never supported the claim that Black-on-White crime was negligible or unworthy of attention. A growing body of evidence suggests the long-standing minimization was flawed even if experts still debate the precise social weight of the disparity. ^[30][23][22]

▶ Supporting Quotes (50)

“Some victims, particularly Black victims, may receive less compensation due to pervasive racial, ethnic, or gender stereotypes. These disparities are especially concerning in the administration of programs like the federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Fund, where biases can influence the allocation of resources.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“everything you've ever known about whites being the aggressors against purely unfortunate minorities has been a superseded by something much uglier: a war by everyone, for everyone.”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“A nearly total silence from the mainstream media for years involving any atrocities committed by blacks or Arabs or Hispanics, and you suddenly begin to realize you've been duped – that everything you've ever known about whites being the aggressors against purely unfortunate minorities has been a superseded by something much uglier”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“The predominant narrative in the West is that White people are racist, and it is a narrative that is permitted and actively promoted by the West’s social media giants. Any other narrative that contradicts this “reality” or shows racial minorities spouting anti-White racial slurs must, in turn, be suppressed.”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that “integration has failed in Sweden.” “Segregation has gone so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country, but different realities,” said the prime minister.”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“The writings published as Soul on Ice in 1968 display a thinker whose inquisitive spirit would lead him to a merciless interrogation of the meaning of his own desire... 'Supermasculine Menials,' in Cleaver’s turgid yet revealing phrase”— Notes from Underground

“His face shows up frequently on national television, his statements are widely reported in the press, he is important enough to have inspired the distaste and opposition of Governor Ronald Reagan, and Maxwell Geismar has called him “one of the new distinctive literary voices.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“Almost everywhere he turns, the Negro writer is exhorted to catch up with his musical counter-part, to prove that he can match the examples of cultural genius found in jazz. Short of this, the very least that is expected of him is that he be relevant to his people, true to his origins, and, in other words, not write like Henry James.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“over the whole concept of Black Nationalist Art there must hang a metaphysic of primitiveness which its votaries somehow identify with purity, with an imagination untainted by white notions of excellence.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“Once he was free, he wrote, “I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto . . . and when I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey.””— Notes from Underground

“As a recent reviewer of Soul on Ice observed, prison has after all been the traditional finishing school of revolutionaries, and even, by now, of a fair number of writers.”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“Negro critics and polemicists are continually demanding that a literature arise to complement the new racial psychology, a literature with its own identity and standards that will break away from Western traditions of judgment and become a special expression of the black sensibility.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“What of craft—the writer’s craft? Well, under terms of a new definition concerning the function of literature, a new concept of what craft is will also evolve. For example, do I not find the craft of Stevie Wonder more suitable than that of Jascha Heifetz?”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“these are real men! Shootouts, revolutions, pictures in Life magazine of policemen grabbing Black Panthers like they were Viet Cong—somehow it all runs together... how beautiful they are. Sharp as a blade.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“Self-deprecation over nothing much at all amounts to very clever self-aggrandizement. Vance’s casuistry resembles a kind of argument from false modesty. Indeed, in smug self-aggrandizement, Vance slimes his hillbilly relatives, even naming names.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“Everyone (and his dog) currently concurs that we have no problem with legal immigration, only with the illegal variety.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“On June 7, 1998, white supremacists hitched James Byrd of Jasper, Texas, to the back of a truck, and dragged him to death. This appalling crime reminded the country in the most forceful way that racial hostility and interracial crime continue to be serious problems in the United States.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Most Americans probably believe that whites commit most interracial crimes, and that blacks are the most frequent victims. The reverse is true: In approximately 90 percent of the interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, blacks are perpetrators and whites are victims.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Some people may argue that blacks attack whites because they expect them to be carrying cash or valuables. However, fewer than 20 percent of black attacks on whites are robberies; rape and assault do not usually have economic motives.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“White 3,299 2,594 566 56 83”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Black or African American 2,906 246 2,574 23 63”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“White 3,299 2,594 566 56 83”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Black or African American 2,906 246 2,574 23 63”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Based on a cursory examination of 1994 data about interracial crimes between whites and blacks — less than a sixth of all crimes committed that year — Taylor comes to a series of what he describes as “startling conclusions” about black criminality. Blacks, he claims, are vastly more likely to attack whites than vice versa and, in fact, are far more prone to criminality in general.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“In fact, when multivariate statistical methods such as regression analysis are used, study after study has shown that race has little, if any, predictive power.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Although evidence suggests that inner-city crack markets during the 1980s led to violent crime, particularly youth violence, the link between drug use and predatory crime has remained unclear (Blumstein et al., 1985).”— cobbina (2008)

“Anti-drug crusaders propagated the myth that cocaine use induced African American men to rape White women (Musto, 1973).”— cobbina (2008)

“In 1998, 4 whites, 23 blacks, and 3 persons of other races (Asians and American Indians together) were murdered per 100,000 persons in each racial group.”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“In that year, there were about 1,700,000 interracial crimes, of which 1,276,030 involved whites and blacks. In 90 percent of the cases, a white was the victim and a black was the perpetrator, while in 10 percent of the cases it was the reverse.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“We all readily condemn highly publicized racial violence, and rightly so, such as last year's brutal murder of James Byrd by white supremacists in Jasper, Texas. However, there's little notice and condemnation of interracial crimes when whites are the victims.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“In 1997, there were 2,336 whites charged with anti-black crimes and 718 blacks charged with anti-white crimes, so-called hate crimes. Although the absolute number of white offenders was larger, the black rate per 100,000 of the population was greater, making blacks twice as likely to commit hate crimes.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Indeed, it is a core belief that this is the case, and many white nationalist ideologues — including politician and pundit Patrick Buchanan, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and the Council of Conservative Citizens — all have made considerable hay out of proffering “studies” laden with risibly bad statistics and other evidence to make their case.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“During the 4-year aggregated period from 2012 to 2015, half (51%) of violent victimizations were intraracial—that is both victims and offenders were the same race or both were of Hispanic origin.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“There was no statistically significant difference between the percentages of intraracial and interracial robbery victimization during this period.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“Stranger violence accounted for the largest proportion of interracial violence”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“And from that, he published a report about cocaine-exposed babies that then launched what became this 'crack baby' notion.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“And lots of reporting was done about these irredeemable babies, mostly Black and Latino children, and how they were going to be a huge weight on society.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“The reasons for the crime wave are complex but can be explained in large part by the rise of the “baby boom” generation—the spike in the number of young men in the fifteen-to- twenty-four age group, which historically has been responsible for most crimes.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Conservatives argued that poverty was caused not by structural factors related to race and class but rather by culture—particularly black culture.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“In the 1980s and 90 s, the U.S. response to crack cocaine was driven by media depictions of an urban, public health crisis primarily affecting black communities in American cities.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“The perceived crack cocaine epidemic has currently subsided as a focal point in the American psyche, partly in reaction to significant neuroscientific data which refuted the false assumptions that one-time use of crack cocaine resulted in instant addiction issues.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“When we read a news story about one of them killing one of us, it raises the gnawing fear — articulated or not — that the civilized world of laws and police and the courts is just a veneer.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Black-on-White violence is much rarer than Black-on-White violence, though the gap is much smaller for murders than for non-fatal violence.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“It conjures up the dreaded specter of intercommunal violence — massed attacks of one group on another. Race riots. The Tulsa Massacre.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Boston was spared the major racial violence that at one time or another during the last decade flared in most major U.S. cities. But the persistent frictions of blacks and whites in close urban proximity are a fact of life in Boston as nearly everywhere.”— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

“The FBI's official crime statistics do not specifically track or report on interracial violence as a distinct category”— Violent Victimization is Decreasing—But Not for Everyone

How It Spread

Mainstream media organizations maintained near silence on Black-on-White atrocities for years. When the Associated Press covered the 2002 murder of college football player Timothy McNerney in Pennsylvania it omitted any physical description of the assailants despite witness accounts describing Black males. Most outlets ignored the New Century Foundation's 1999 press conference releasing The Color of Crime. The pattern created a feedback loop in which only one direction of interracial violence registered as newsworthy. ^[7][26]

Social media platforms later reproduced the same selectivity. TikTok suspended the Remix News account multiple times for posting videos of anti-White slurs at Danish protests while allowing comparable anti-minority content to accumulate millions of views. The platform cited community guidelines that treated anti-White rhetoric as non-racist because racism required institutional power. European officials including Danish and Swedish prime ministers had begun acknowledging parallel societies and integration failures yet the algorithmic gatekeepers continued to suppress contrary examples. ^[8]

Academic and literary channels amplified voices that fit the assumption. Ramparts magazine published Eldridge Cleaver's prison writings and the New York Review of Books reviewed Soul on Ice favorably across the liberal spectrum. Leonard Bernstein's 1970 fundraiser for the Black Panthers received sympathetic coverage that treated the militants as authentic revolutionaries. These endorsements lent cultural prestige to narratives that downplayed or romanticized Black violence against Whites. ^[13][16]

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“It is also essential to challenge the narrative that victims must be deemed "innocent" to receive financial relief from social services and victim compensation programs.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“A nearly total silence from the mainstream media for years involving any atrocities committed by blacks or Arabs or Hispanics”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“if you have a kid spend his childhood watching movies with anti-racist themes (the ones where whites are racists, naturally) and send him to a leftist college”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“if you have a kid spend his childhood watching movies with anti-racist themes (the ones where whites are racists, naturally) and send him to a leftist college, and he hears little to nothing in the media about any atrocities committed by anyone but white people”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“The answer is clear. A man who overwhelmingly showcases the atrocities of one race is running a propaganda war against it. And the people in charge of our government and mainstream media believe we're stupid enough to believe them.”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“These videos also often feature strong language, including racial slurs. The question is why are these types of videos allowed to trend while examples of anti-White racism, of which there are many, are not? The answer is about power and controlling the narrative.”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“The gatekeepers that increasingly control the web, but also governments, corporations, and academia, want to avoid such an outcome at all costs. Tensions already exist across Europe, and Denmark is no exception.”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“Supported by prominent editors, intellectuals, and Norman Mailer... the subsequent publication of Soul on Ice only confirmed the estimation of him, held across a broad but fragile spectrum ranging from the white left-liberals at the New York Review of Books”— Notes from Underground

“Time and tide and politics and the mass media have all taken care of that. Today Cleaver is nationally known as the author of Soul on Ice, a widely read book of essays”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“as a literary idol of the black nationalists.”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“The contributors—almost all of them under forty, many under thirty—are responding to the rhetoric of the search for identity that has been fashionable in popular journals for years and in the black community for decades.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“Axelrod ferried those texts to Ramparts, the then-prominent Bay Area radical magazine, where they found immediate publication and were immediately celebrated.”— Notes from Underground

“confirmed the estimation of him... as an eloquent, incisive, and above all authentic commentator”— Notes from Underground

“Time and tide and politics and the mass media have all taken care of that. Today Cleaver is nationally known . . . His face shows up frequently on national television, his statements are widely reported in the press, he is important enough to have inspired the distaste and opposition of Governor Ronald Reagan”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“those in touch with the radical literati, black and white, who had known for some time about this uncut literary diamond, this “talented black nationalist cat writing some really beautiful stuff out of a jail in California.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers, as Lenny and Felicia are this evening, or as Sidney and Gail Lumet did last week, or as John Simon of Random House and Richard Baron... did before that.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“Provided your thesis allows for a cozy convergence of agreeable storylines—you are well-positioned to peddle a national bestseller to the approving left, libertarian, neoconservative and pseudo-conservative smart-set.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“His is the typically conciliatory, “conservative” argument we’ve come to expect from the gilded elite... Vance is open, law-abiding, and properly diverse.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“Although white-on-black hate crimes receive a great deal of attention, blacks are approximately twice as likely to commit hate crimes as whites.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Hate crimes are thought to be the most serious acts of interracial crime, but there were only 9,861 reported in 1997. Of these, 6,981 were race-related and 4,105 were violent. This very small number of crimes receives a disproportionate amount of attention.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“New Century Foundation also published American Renaissance, a monthly magazine that dealt with race and racial issues here and abroad.”— The Color of Crime

“It sponsors publications and books, and holds occasional conferences.”— The Color of Crime

“These recent failures to uncover support for the interracial economic inequality thesis has led to alternative conceptualizations of economic inequality, particularly the notion that intraracial economic inequality may be more salient in predicting group crime rates than interracial inequality (Phillips, 1997).”— Race, economic inequality, and violent crime

“The Color of Crime is being circulated in hard copy and via the Web site of Taylor’s magazine American Renaissance.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“This dubious report, in slightly modified form, also has appeared in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Findings reveal that media reports on crack cocaine frequently referenced African Americans and depicted the drug in conjunction with violent crime.”— cobbina (2008)

“Musto (1973) blamed politicians for associating minority groups with drugs because these social actors typically exaggerated the negative effects of substance use to gain partisan advantage.”— cobbina (2008)

“In each year from 1993 to 1997, black persons were victimized at rates significantly greater than those of whites.”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“Only 14 people stayed for the briefing and only a couple reported on the study, most notably The Washington Times and C-SPAN. One reporter said that he'd like to write a story but he doubted he could get it by his editor.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“But far more destructive are the official and unofficial attempts to mislead and conceal.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump retweeted a graphic that originated on a neo-Nazi website trotting out statistics mainly lifted from Taylor and the CofCC.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“This report uses data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to examine the race and Hispanic origin of victims age 12 or older and offenders of violent victimizations.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“And lots of reporting was done about these irredeemable babies, mostly Black and Latino children, and how they were going to be a huge weight on society, that they would sort of never be able to come back from what their mothers had done to them.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“And there also was a real campaign to ask Hollywood directors and writers to send their scripts to the White House for approval, ways of working in anti-drug messaging.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“Thousands of stories about the crack crisis flooded the airwaves and newsstands, and the stories had a clear racial subtext. The articles typically featured black “crack whores,” “crack babies,” and “gangbangers,” reinforcing already prevalent racial stereotypes.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Bush’s most famous racial appeal, the Willie Horton ad [released during the 1988 presidential campaign], featured a dark-skinned black man, a convicted murderer who escaped while on a work furlough and then raped and murdered a white woman in her home.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Meanwhile, mass media pedaled to the American public a fear-mongering, racist narrative of predominantly black “crack baby mothers” who risked burdening the U.S. healthcare system with an epidemic of “crack babies”.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“The subsequent influx of drug education messages, public service announcements, and curriculums that were created in response to crack cocaine were pervaded by the public and political fear that crack cocaine was destroying a generation of young Americans.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“Our conclusion is that official statistics are so misleading that they are virtually useless as indicators of actual deviance in the population. It is suggested that the visibility of the offenses, the bias of the policing agencies, and the demeanor of the youth account for the rate and distribution of delinquency among the three groups and that official rates are a complete distortion of the actual incidence.”— The New Dawn of NIBRS: Race/Ethnicity and Crime Patterns and the NIBRS Transition

“There were protests about the killing, but on Twitter, some protested the media’s focus on the incident in lieu of other incidents of Black-on-White violence.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Interracial murders, assaults, rapes, and so on tend to get broadcast and politically weaponized in a way that violence between people of the same race doesn’t.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“But because same-race violence doesn’t create the same fears that interracial violence does, I fear that Carr is swimming against the tide on this one.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Yet nothing in the city’s mood or texture remotely prepared Bostonians for what happened there last week: two of the most vicious, apparently racial, murders in memory.”— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

“most violent victimizations are intraracial, with interracial incidents forming a substantial but minority share”— Violent Victimization by Race or Hispanic Origin, 2008-2021

Resulting Policies

The Victims of Crime Act and related federal programs allocated compensation under the assumption of racial neutrality. In practice Black victims received less support than others in comparable situations because of pervasive stereotypes about who qualified as an innocent victim. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights documented these disparities in its 2024 report yet noted that data collection remained too coarse to guide equitable reform. Federal agencies continued to operate under statutes that assumed bias-free administration. ^[1]

The Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 required the FBI to track bias crimes but its methodology classified Hispanic offenders as White. This practice inflated White perpetrator rates and minimized the perception of non-White interracial violence. Law enforcement training and resource allocation followed the resulting picture. Local police in places such as Hawaiian Gardens downplayed Black-Hispanic tensions under the same logic. ^[18]

Sentencing laws passed during the crack cocaine era embodied parallel assumptions about which communities produced serious crime. The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act created a 100-to-1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine that fell overwhelmingly on Black defendants. The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act added mandatory minimums and prison funding justified by the same tough-on-crime rhetoric. These measures produced high Black incarceration rates that policymakers cited as evidence of Black criminality rather than policy design. ^[31][32][33]

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“These disparities are especially concerning in the administration of programs like the federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Fund, where biases can influence the allocation of resources.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“Improving data collection on crime victimization is also critical. By capturing more granular data on race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, law enforcement agencies can gain a clearer understanding of the challenges faced by these communities and devise more effective strategies to address them.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“why lynch mobs are being organized on a yearly basis in honor of the few black people (and mostly criminals) shot by cops in bad neighborhoods, and nobody is protesting too openly about the diabolical black crime rates.”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“TikTok’s suspension was for over a week and will end on Sept. 6... TikTok has already warned Remix News that we are in danger of being banned permanently”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“Supported by prominent editors, intellectuals, and Norman Mailer, Cleaver was freed in December 1966”— Notes from Underground

“as candidate for President on the Peace and Freedom party ticket”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“the Panther 21 defendants... Robert Bay... taken to jail on a most unusual charge called “criminal facilitation.” And now he is out on bail.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“Ever since passage of the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, the FBI has been charged with collecting national statistics on criminal acts “motivated, in whole or in part, by bias.””— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Two of the anti-black killings took place in the same town, a largely Hispanic suburb of Los Angeles called Hawaiian Gardens. Hawaiian Gardens has a history of black-Hispanic tension that is so bad many blacks have been forced to leave.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“First, some studies used race-specific arrest rates as a proxy measure for race-specific crime rates.”— Race, economic inequality, and violent crime

“Ultimately, Taylor’s article concludes blacks are so much more likely to commit crimes than whites — “blacks are as much more violent than whites as men are more violent than women” — that police officers are justified in stopping them more often as they drive.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Nonetheless, during the 1980s many politicians decided to “get tough” on drug crimes (Reinarman and Levine, 1997), while ignoring structural inequalities permeating the lives of so many economically distressed African Americans and Hispanics.”— cobbina (2008)

“However, articles on methamphetamine were more likely to reference poor Whites and associate this drug as a public health problem.”— cobbina (2008)

“About 4% of the American Indian population age 18 or older were under the care, custody, or control of the criminal justice system on an average day, 1992-96. By comparison, an estimated 2% of white adults, 10% of black adults, and less than half of 1% of Asian adults were under correctional supervision.”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“One reporter said that he'd like to write a story but he doubted he could get it by his editor.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“It was originally 100-to-1, meaning that you got essentially 100 times the amount of [prison] time for crack than you would for the same substance in powder form.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“For me, as a Black child growing up in the '80s and '90s, I was treated as though I was a suspect of being a 'crack baby,' that the ways that teachers treated me and really other Black children in my classes — mainly Black boys — was as though there was something fundamentally wrong with us.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“Among other harsh penalties, the legislation included mandatory minimum sentences for the distribution of cocaine, including far more severe punishment for distribution of crack—associated with blacks—than powder cocaine, associated with whites.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“The $30 billion crime bill sent to President Clinton in August 1994 was hailed as a victory for the Democrats, who “were able to wrest the crime issue from the Republicans and make it their own.” The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some three-time offenders, and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Bias’s death and surrounding media coverage were used as catalysts for significant drug policy changes, including the enactment of the U.S. Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which established minimum sentencing for possession of crack cocaine.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“However, recent U.S. justice system data from the 2019 fiscal year shows an staggering 81.1% of smokable-cocaine trafficking offenders were black.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“The more diverse society becomes, the more such incidents there will be to feed our fears, whether they’re random or systematic.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“The mayor made a point of keeping all Boston schools open on Friday, claiming that despite the week’s double horror his city “is still the most livable, walkable, decent city in America.””— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

Harm Caused

Black victims of crime received less compensation and services from federal programs than White victims in similar circumstances. The disparity was especially damaging in high-crime neighborhoods during the pandemic-era surge in gun violence. Stereotypes about deserving victims compounded the material losses for families already living in segregated areas with limited resources. ^[1]

The assumption distorted public outrage and policy priorities. Annual protests focused on rare police shootings of Black suspects while Black-on-White crimes received minimal coverage or condemnation. This imbalance left White victims without social recognition and fed resentment that extremists later exploited. The Charleston church shooting by Dylann Roof in 2015 was one lethal consequence of the recruitment narrative built on official silence. ^[27][6]

Specific cases illustrated the human cost. Timothy McNerney, a 21-year-old White college football player, was beaten to death in Pennsylvania in 2002 by a group of Black males during a cellphone robbery. The local press described the attack as random and the case remained unsolved. In Boston in 1973 two White women, Evelyn Wagler and another victim, were murdered in racially motivated attacks that included immolation and gang assault near housing projects. Schools briefly closed then reopened under mayoral assurances that the city remained safe. ^[7][38]

The crack-era policies produced broader social damage. The crack baby myth led to stigmatization, over-medication, and harsh school discipline for Black children whose symptoms were later shown to result from prematurity rather than cocaine. Mass incarceration removed large numbers of young Black men from their communities, increasing family disruption and economic collapse in inner cities. Resources spent on enforcement far outstripped treatment and education programs. ^[31][32]

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“The pandemic saw a surge in gun violence, including homicides, which disproportionately impacted persons of color residing in racially segregated neighborhoods. Although overall crime rates have begun to recede, the impact of these violent incidents continues to resonate within these communities.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“Police Lt. Dan Stanek said investigators had no suspects in the death of Timothy McNerney, 21, a senior from Butler, who was found unresponsive shortly before 4 a.m.”— College running back killed by muggers

“you begin to develop something aside from a general sensation of shock and disgust. You almost immediately begin to carry a burden of anger. Not at the white nationalists who talk about these things, or even simply at the people who did them, but overwhelmingly at the people who purposely hide them.”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“Blatant anti-White racism and the type of genocidal threats seen in the video posted by Remix may lead some citizens to question some elements of never-ending mass immigration or the oft-cited claim that only Whites are capable of racism... Remix is far from the only news outlet targeted by TikTok for conflicting with the left’s narrative”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“it is so important to follow us on Rumble and Telegram, and also sign up for our newsletter.”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“he became the minister of information for the newly founded Black Panthers... After staging a Panther ambush of Oakland policemen in the wake of the King assassination, Cleaver fled the country”— Notes from Underground

“that he is interested mainly in mending and institutionalizing the walls between black and white America; that while espousing the cause of black pride and manhood, he cannot see the world and its other problems except as they all represent an enormous conspiracy against black people”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“that he detects no difference between the struggle of the Vietcong and the struggle of black Americans and in fact advocates a linking of both; that he believes armed rebellion may be the only means by which blacks can secure their objectives in America.”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“the Negro writer is caught in an agonizing cultural dilemma. ... the catalogue of sweet contrivance in this anthology is a long one, and it suffocates any feelings one has about the conditions that have produced this histrionic sloganeering.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“how can these grim simplicities have any relevance to people whose cultural strength is a strong sense of ironic humor? Perhaps “the people” can be marshaled into having a respectful attitude toward this peremptory and political literature, but this will mean just another variant of the schizophrenic aesthetic which wants art to be both “real” and “acceptable.””— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“After staging a Panther ambush of Oakland policemen in the wake of the King assassination, Cleaver fled the country”— Notes from Underground

“the swagger, charm, intelligence, misogyny, and homophobia of Soul on Ice endure, much amplified, in street rap.”— Notes from Underground

“Faced with these imperatives—imperatives it would take egomaniacal strength to ignore—the Negro writer is caught in an agonizing cultural dilemma.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“the catalogue of sweet contrivance in this anthology is a long one, and it suffocates any feelings one has about the conditions that have produced this histrionic sloganeering.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“Cheray tells her: “I’ve never met a Panther—this is a first for me!” … never dreaming that within 48 hours her words will be on the desk of the President of the United States.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“So the current wave of Radical Chic has touched off the most desperate search for white servants... Lenny and Felicia—they had it worked out before Radical Chic even started.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“the archetypical folks depicted in Hillbilly Elegy contend, justifiably, that “Vance is not an authentic hillbilly or an example of the working class.””— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial violent crimes involving blacks and whites reported every year, blacks commit 90 percent and whites commit only ten percent.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Blacks are as much more likely to be arrested for violent crimes as men are more likely to be arrested than women... blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“This inflates the figures for “white” hate crime perpetrators, and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“It appeared that prior studies were unable to find support for the relative deprivation thesis for Black crime rates because of data and methodological limitations.”— Race, economic inequality, and violent crime

“His booklet is simply the latest effort of racial ideologues to demonstrate black America’s hatred for whites and to encourage whites to “take back the country” as a matter of survival.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Quite apart from the glaring Constitutional violations involved in such a practice, Taylor is simply wrong about the usefulness of racial profiling.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Chiricos (1996) claims that moral panics are ideological and the consequence of such panic over violence and drugs have resulted in a disproportionate number of African American men in prison.”— cobbina (2008)

“Enduring structural problems in the inner-cities (i.e. unemployment, poverty, and racism) in the midst of recession resulted in many young urban male residents trafficking drugs, particularly crack cocaine, to gain monetary success (Sullivan, 1988).”— cobbina (2008)

“The rate of violent victimization of whites fell 29% and of blacks fell 38%, 1993-98. Over the same period no measurable change in the victimization rates of American Indians or Asians occurred.”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“Interracial crime has other devastating effects on racial relations. Whites are apprehensive of blacks, and blacks are offended at being the subjects of that apprehension. Whites are less willing to live in black neighborhoods.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Multi-ethnic societies are inherently unstable, and how we handle matters of interracial crime is just one of the ways that we're contributing to that instability.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“To the contrary, silence is perhaps one of the most effective recruitment tools for racists. They can use our silence for proselytizing disaffected whites with demagoguery about how hate crimes are not important unless a black is the victim and how no one cares about blacks raping white women and assaulting white men.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“The false beliefs that arise from these smears have consequences, too: Dylann Roof, the domestic terrorist who killed nine members of a Charleston church’s black congregation in June 2015, shouted during the rampage at his victims his belief that they were “killing us.””— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“The false beliefs that arise from these smears have consequences, too.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“Among white victims, a higher percentage of victimizations were committed by white offenders (57%) than offenders of any other race. White victims perceived the offender to be black in 15% of violent victimizations and Hispanic in 11%.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“The rate of black-on-black violence (16.5 victimizations per 1,000 black persons) was higher than the rate of white-on-white violence (12.0 per 1,000 white persons) and Hispanic-on-Hispanic violence (8.3 per 1,000 Hispanic persons).”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“From 1994 to 2015, white-on-white violence (down 79%) and black-on-black violence (down 78%) declined at a similar rate.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“And what we've seen through the research, longitudinal studies of cocaine-exposed babies, was that ... the symptoms that Chasnoff were seeing were actually related to premature birth.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“That was reduced to 18-to-1 around 2010. But it still exists. With all that we know about crack, with all the compassion that we have now for addicts, we still haven't moved far enough to eliminate that disparity entirely.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“It made me keep people who I even suspected of being drug addicts — the average houseless person on the street — so far away from me because I was terrified that they were just these zombies that were out to get me and to get me hooked on drugs.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people behind bars in the United States was unprecedented in world history, and that one fourth of young African American men were now under the control of the criminal justice system.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“By contrast, funding for agencies responsible for drug treatment, prevention, and education was dramatically reduced. The budget of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, for example, was reduced from $274 million to $57 million from 1981 to 1984, and antidrug funds allocated to the Department of Education were cut from $14 million to $3 million.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“Data shows only roughly ten percent of the population who qualify for drug treatment ever receiving care for problematic drug use in the U.S.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“Other reports demonstrated how the popularity of crack cocaine significantly increased urban crime rates and boosted inner-city decay in major metropolitan areas of the U.S. in the late 1980s and early 1990s.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“Even if it doesn’t spark actual riots and pogroms, it could lead to the breakdown of social cooperation between people of different racial groups, and paralyze the government via racial polarization of politics.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“This ever-present fear presents an especially difficult challenge for a very diverse society like the United States.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Before dying five hours later... Ludivico Barba, 65... was stoned by a gang of about 30 youths. They then stabbed him to death and robbed him... But many parents—both white and black—kept their children out of school, fearing that the savage eruption of violence might not yet have run its course.”— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

“Black Americans experienced a 37% increase in nonlethal violent victimization rates, particularly in robberies, aggravated assaults, and rape/sexual assaults”— Criminal Victimization, 2024

Downfall

The assumption began to lose ground when official data accumulated in plain sight. The 1994 National Crime Victimization Survey showed 90 percent of Black-White interracial violence was Black-on-White. The New Century Foundation's 1999 report and its 2016 update presented these numbers alongside FBI homicide tables that recorded 566 White victims killed by Black offenders in 2019 compared with 246 Black victims killed by White offenders. A growing number of readers encountered the figures through American Renaissance or independent blogs. ^[18][20][19]

Later Bureau of Justice Statistics reports reinforced the pattern. The 2012-2015 analysis by Rachel E. Morgan documented rates and trends that contradicted claims of rarity or insignificance. The 2001 report on violent victimization revealed that American Indians suffered higher rates than Blacks yet had been grouped with Asians in earlier statistics. These corrections did not end debate but made continued minimization harder to sustain. ^[30][25]

High-profile cultural figures lost credibility as their trajectories became public. Eldridge Cleaver's later life of exile, religious wandering, crack addiction, and praise for Ronald Reagan undercut the authenticity once ascribed to his prison writings. Tom Wolfe's satire of the Bernstein fundraiser birthed the term Radical Chic and exposed the performative nature of elite support for militants. Longitudinal studies debunked the crack baby myth and the Fair Sentencing Act reduced the 100-to-1 disparity. A growing body of evidence suggests the assumption was flawed even as experts continue to argue over its exact social importance. ^{[13][16][31][33]}

▶ Supporting Quotes (57)

“For instance, young, Black men continue to face a disproportionately high risk of homicide, a disparity that underscores the need for targeted interventions.”— Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime

“Suddenly, you begin to encounter horror stories in local news pages about white women being tortured and murdered by black men, illegal aliens raping innocent girls, and Muslim fanatics beheading their own children”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“Jeanette V. writes: Found a video from the local police, the victim was surrounded by a group of Black males and trauma to the back of his head is what caused his death.”— College running back killed by muggers

“and then suddenly encounters a horrible website like American Renaissance, he might find it extremely interesting... Suddenly, you begin to encounter horror stories in local news pages about white women being tortured and murdered by black men, illegal aliens raping innocent girls, and Muslim fanatics beheading their own children”— In Defense of an Openly Racist Magazine

“Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has repeatedly addressed the problems the country has experienced with its migrant population, and in turn, the left-wing government has implemented some of the most aggressive immigration restrictions in Western Europe.”— TikTok suspends Remix News over video showcasing racist anti-White slurs during Denmark protest

“A near-decadelong odyssey ensued... Finally cracking under pressure, Cleaver returned to the States under the auspices of the FBI and evangelical Christianity. Copping a plea deal and drifting rightward, by 1984 he was praising Ronald Reagan... Sometimes a Mormon, sometimes a Moonie, sometimes a crack addict... Cleaver, whose hustle had entranced a nation, swayed few, perhaps none, by the time he died in 1998”— Notes from Underground

“But deciding now to take a new look at himself, he realized that in becoming a rapist he had degraded, not the white man or his women, but himself. “I lost my self-respect. My pride as a man dissolved and my whole fragile moral structure seemed to collapse, completely shattered.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“Loathing the stereotypes of the past, they nevertheless affect a schematic pose every bit as false as any Sambo conjured up in the Hollywood mind ... these pieces which are the very antithesis of that culture.”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“A near-decadelong odyssey ensued as the Cleavers were welcomed to, and then pushed out of, Cuba, Algeria, North Korea, and Paris. Finally cracking under pressure, Cleaver returned to the States under the auspices of the FBI and evangelical Christianity. Copping a plea deal and drifting rightward, by 1984 he was praising Ronald Reagan”— Notes from Underground

“By 1966, however, the movement had been overtaken by crisis . . . the movement bogged down and splintered . . . Cleaver has now emerged as one of the leading reapers of the wave of frustration and disillusionment”— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

““I lost my self-respect. My pride as a man dissolved and my whole fragile moral structure seemed to collapse, completely shattered.””— Race, Rage & Eldridge Cleaver

“for all their febrile rage, they are still playing off and defining themselves against the white world, or, rather, their concept of that world. Loathing the stereotypes of the past, they nevertheless affect a schematic pose every bit as false as any Sambo conjured up in the Hollywood mind”— The Black Arts | Jack Richardson

“Deny it if you wish to, but such are the pensées métaphysiques that rush through one’s head on these Radical Chic evenings just now in New York.”— Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s

“Aunt Ruth didn’t think much of Vance’s endeavor. Her niece is an Appalachian and author of a redeeming tale, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains.”— On The Backs Of Poor Whites? How J.D. Vance Elites Become Elites - ILANA MERCER

“In 1994 6,830,360 whites were victims of violent crimes, and that 16.7 percent (1,140,670) reported that the perpetrator was black... Adding these figures for interracial crime together (1,140,670 and 135,360) we get a total of 1,276,030 interracial crimes, of which 1,140,670 or 89 percent were committed by blacks.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Blacks were 1.99 times more likely than whites to commit hate crimes in general and 2.24 times more likely to commit violent hate crimes.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“In both cases, the victims and killers did not know each other and the motivation appears to have been purely racial. These crimes are typical of what we think of as hate-crime murders, and because no Hispanics are identified as perpetrators in the FBI report, it is safe to assume the killers were classified as white.”— 1999 Color of Crime Report

“Perhaps the most important publication of New Century Foundation is The Color of Crime, New Century Foundation’s report on differences in crime rates by race, bias in the justice system, and interracial crime.”— The Color of Crime

“Click here to see DOJ Statistics on Race and Violent Crime for 2015.”— The Color of Crime

“White 3,299 2,594 566 56 83”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Black or African American 2,906 246 2,574 23 63”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“White 3,299 2,594 566 56 83”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Black or African American 2,906 246 2,574 23 63”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“White 3,299 2,594 566 56 83”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Black or African American 2,906 246 2,574 23 63”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“White 3,005 2,509 409 49 38”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Hispanic or Latino 588 486 87 10 5”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“White 3,005 2,509 409 49 38”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Black or African American 2,491 189 2,245 20 37”— Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

“Using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), D'Alessio and Stolzenberg (2003) assessed the effect of an offender's race on the probability of arrest for 335,619 incidents of forcible rape, robbery, and assault during 1999.”— Race, economic inequality, and violent crime

“Crime is intimately related to poverty. In fact, when multivariate statistical methods such as regression analysis are used, study after study has shown that race has little, if any, predictive power.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“A study of profiling released by the nonpartisan U.S. General Accounting Office earlier this year shows that stopping individuals based on race, gender or state of origin does not increase the likelihood of discovering contraband or illegal activities.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“This fact has been accepted by major law enforcement agencies around the country. The National Association of Police Organizations, for instance, opposes the practice. So does the International Association of Police Chiefs.”— Color of Crime Booklet by Jared Taylor Popular on Radical Right

“Using a content analysis of 124 newspaper articles, this study extends moral panic theory by examining whether the race and class of crack cocaine and methamphetamine users and traffickers shaped the print media’s depiction of these drugs; and whether such depictions affected the official response.”— cobbina (2008)

“Goode and Ben-Yehuda (1994) identified five crucial elements that characterize a moral panic, which consist of concern, hostility, consensus, disproportionality, and volatility.”— cobbina (2008)

“Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) indicate that between 1993 and 1998 compared to people of other races American Indians sustained violence at the highest per capita rate (119 victimizations per 1,000 American Indians age 12 or older). This rate of violent victimization is about 2 times that experienced by blacks, 2½ times that sustained by whites, and 4½ times that experienced by Asians.”— Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98

“Some of the study's findings about interracial crime were surprising, so much so that I did an independent verification of the numbers.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“Its most recent publication (1997), ''Criminal Victimization in the U.S.,'' reports on data collected in 1994. ... I did an independent verification of the numbers.”— Interracial crimes and a conspiracy of silence

“In a report released Thursday titled Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-2015, the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that a majority of most violent crimes are committed by people who are the same race as their victims. Indeed, the rate of white-on-white violent crime, it found, is about four times the rate of black-on-white crime.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“This is consistent with previously collected data, including a National Crime Victim Survey in 2000 that showed that 73 percent of white violent crime victims were attacked by whites, and 80 percent of black victims were targeted by blacks.”— White supremacists' favorite myths about black crime rates take another hit from BJS study

“White victims perceived the offender to be black in 15% of violent victimizations and Hispanic in 11%.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“From 1994 to 2015, white-on-white violence (down 79%) and black-on-black violence (down 78%) declined at a similar rate.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“The rate of violent crime committed against a white victim by a black offender was 3.1 victimizations per 1,000 persons.”— Race and Hispanic Origin of Victims and Offenders, 2012-15

“And then, decades later, there is no measurable difference between those children and their counterparts, children born at the same time raised in the same areas with the same sort of resources.”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“And that's not according to me. That's according to research by the Department of Justice, where they surveyed the hardest hit cities around the country and interviewed young people and said essentially 'Why? Why aren't you doing crack?' And they said, 'That whole world is too scary.'”— Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

“A new racial caste system—mass incarceration—was taking hold, as politicians of every stripe competed with each other to win the votes of poor and working-class whites, whose economic status was precarious, at best, and who felt threatened by racial reforms.”— Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control

“A 1993 JAMA publication confirmed that the prevalence of crack cocaine use did not depend on race-specific factors and showed that crack cocaine use did not differ significantly for African Americans or Hispanic Americans as compared to white Americans.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“Additionally, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration reports data confirms there are no statistically significant differences in the rates of illicit drug use between racial and ethnic groups.”— A cultural and political difference: comparing the racial and social framing of population crack cocaine use between the United States and France

“Findings suggest that Black offending and arrest patterns are generally consistent across data sources, but depictions of Hispanic crime involvement differ sharply depending on which data source is used.”— The New Dawn of NIBRS: Race/Ethnicity and Crime Patterns and the NIBRS Transition

“Interracial murder is rare in the United States.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“We pay a vastly inordinate amount of attention to these incidents of interracial violence, relative to how frequently they actually occur.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“Anyway, Carr’s thread adds some important points to the discussion, but I feel like it’s still easy for readers to walk away from the exchange with all their priors — and all their fears — intact.”— Interracial violence is rare in the United States

“two of the most vicious, apparently racial, murders in memory... she told police that three of her assailants had been part of a black group that had called her a “honky”... a black gang armed with clubs and knives”— CRIME: Boston's Double Horror

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