Anthem Protest Bengals

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(08-24-2017, 01:08 AM)Circleville Guy Wrote: I guess that I don't understand why they're protesting in the first place. It's a make believe problem. Number 1, more whites than blacks get killed by cops every year. The media pushes a false narrative and people run with it. Young black males between the ages of 13-45 make up like 3 % of our population and commit 50% of the murders. Now that is worthy of protest. The media constantly pushes a one sided narrative as if they want a race war. I'm far from racist but I will never be PC. Violence from anyone is wrong. There are obviously some bad cops, it sounds like they also kill whites too. Most of these deaths have been justified. "Hands up don't shoot", that was all made up and a proven fake. People also never wait for facts to come out! I know that there have been some blacks murdered by cops, just as there has had to of been some whites. It's not this major issue that it's made out to be though.

Yes, there are more whites killed than blacks, but when you adjust for population, it is much more likely for a black person to be killed than a white person. White people make up over 60% of the total population. Black people make up about 13-16%. So when you adjust for that, a black male is 7 times more likely to be killed by police than a white male. That's the problem. The false narrative is looking at it based solely on total numbers. If 300 are killed out of 300,000,000, that is not equal to 200 killed out of 50,000,000. Yes, more of the larger population were killed in total, but a higher percentage of the smaller population are getting killed.