Trump: ‘More White People’ Are Killed by Cops and How Dare Anyone Suggest Blacks Have it Bad
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Via: tessylo • 6 years ago • 16 commentsBy: Madeline Charbonneau, Justin Baragona, The Daily Beast
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Trump: ‘More White People’ Are Killed by Cops and How Dare Anyone Suggest Blacks Have it Bad
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Following weeks of nationwide protests over a spate of police killings of Black people, President Donald Trump has claimed that “more white people” actually die at the hands of law enforcement.
The president made the comment after appearing to briefly lose it when asked about the hot button topic in a CBS News interview .
“Why are African-Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country?” host Catherine Herridge asked, prompting the president to immediately recoil.
“So are white people. So are white people! What a terrible question to ask,” he huffed. “So are white people.”
Trump has made white grievance politics and the culture war a centerpiece of his re-election push in recent weeks, defending Confederate memorials and military bases named after Confederate generals even as he derides those who took part in anti-racism protests as “bad, evil people” seeking to destroy the country.
Beyond that, he's targeted the only full-time Black NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace, falsely accusing him of perpetrating a hate-crime “hoax” after a suspected noose was discovered in his garage at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway last month. Trump took to Twitter to demand that Wallace should “apologize” after the FBI concluded the noose was not a hate crime, but Wallace was not the one who reported it to begin with.
Amidst what has become a nationwide reckoning over racism in the country, Trump has veered off in the other direction and refused to acknowledge that racism is a problem. In fact, perhaps the most telling response he has offered to the racism issue at the heart of the protests was a recent retweet of a video showing a Trump supporter arguing with protesters and yelling “white power.”
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Hopefully, the few black supporters he has will now tell him to feck off.
Here are the numbers for 2017 - other years are about the same.
White -- 457 / 234,370,202 = .00000195
Black -- 223 / 40,610,815 = .00000549
Whites = 73% of the population
Blacks = 13% of the population
For most computational purposes, it is usually better to connect your keyboard to one of these
which case it would be like connecting to one of theses.
oh look, it's the white house lunch truck...
The really stupid part of this is that it's somehow a contest. We are supposed to care about black deaths (or not) more than others, and the reason will be that one happens more than the other. Why is one worse than the other? Is it terrible when cops shoot black people, but white people brought that shit on themselves? Is that the idea?
Should cop killings be distributed equally by demographics? Why? What would that prove?
There is a basic truth in what Trump said, and that's that a lot of people of all races and backgrounds are killed by cops. We should care about them all.
Per capita, more African Americans are killed, but is the difference alone enough to say racist cops are the reason? What if it was only off by 1%? What if whites led per capita? Would anyone even care about police shootings?
Yes, black lives matter, but how many white people need to be killed by cops before BLM, the media, or any particular political party are bothered by it?
If you think it just happens because victims are black, then you just shouldn't be listened to. It's clear you're pushing a political agenda that doesn't care about facts.
So what do you care about? Do you care about investigating why cops kill people and proving that a particular killing is unjust? Or are you just interested in playing the victim so you can score political points?