Stats:
I don't know if this will add anything to the convo or not, and unfortunately, I can't c & p the .pdf pages for this from my phone right now, but:
According to the DOJ's most recent national, statistical breakdown of overall homicides by race, while comprising only 12.6 - 12.9% of the entire U.S. population, the homicide rate among African Americans, or "blacks" is a full 6 times higher than the homicide rate among Caucasian Americans, or "whites".
And, in contrast, within that same percentage of the U.S. population, the homicide offender rate for blacks is 7 times higher than for whites - another disproportionately high ratio.
In the most recently published 10 yr. period:
- 84% of "whites" were killed by whites, and,
- 93% of "blacks" were killed by blacks.
In case anyone's wondering, these stats aren't broken down into racial categories for deaths via LE officers b/c they are not considered offenders, though their respective races are included in the homicide victims profile. The above is based on mandatory, national LE reporting statistics.
@Athena 's posted the comprehensive .pdf on the DOJ's most current reports @ least once recently, maybe more (thx again Athena!), but again, it's easy to google or site search this wealth of statistical info. and more for anyone interested.
So, when thinking
objectively about interracial homicides, it's important to consider both the actual % of the U.S. population, as well as the ratios of both victims and offenders within these two particular ethnic groups.
*Ugh, as you can tell, I've personally never liked Caucasians and African Americans being deliberately reduced to false, opposite "skin colors", on the census spectrum while everyone else gets to be an ethnicity. Humans don't come in "black & white", crayons do.