Kirkman needs to be reminded (none too gently, in my opinion) that her "fact" or "statistic" in the absence of context and other information is nothing more than a meaningless number. She also needs to understand as FACT that most people kill others of their own ethnicity because that is with whom they spend most of their time. What is the source of her information? Is she aware that crime statistics are "juked" in favor of whites so that a white person killing a black person may not be classified as a murder?
Does she believe that murder is the the ONLY crime that counts that whites commit against blacks? She appears to believe that death is the only consequence of a crime worth noting. Blacks die at a higher rate at the hands of an unresponsive medical system. Blacks die at higher rates because of the stressful effects of racism, which are actually passed on genetically. Blacks are victims of voter suppression, which is a crime committed by whites. It doesn't include white-on-black murder now, but it sure as heck used to. Whites are a threat when people of color walk into banks. Whites are a threat to blacks when they make prejudicial hiring decisions. Whites are a threat to blacks when blacks walk down the street, run down the street, have a missing tail light, walk into spaces white people consider "theirs," and so on.
Ms Kirkman needs to turn what I'm sure she believes are her skills of observation and analysis back on herself to explain her need to believe what she does and how she relies on one "statistic" as the basis of her specious argument.
This is what happens too often on Medium. Black people who actually know what they're talking about have to waste our time (and expertise) explaining the fallacies of white people who believe they know whereof they speak just because they're white. Then they have the temerity to lecture instead of discuss. In Ms Kirkman's case, it's particularly offensive. It gets tiring.
Excellent response, Dr. Brown. It probably won't make Ms Kirkman think, but perhaps it will affect someone else's perceptions. Thank you.
