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The plot is unrealistic - Statistics on interracial crime


When it comes to interracial violence, there are far more crimes committed by blacks against whites than visa versa.

According to the FBI, African-Americans commit 90% of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence that occur in the United States every year, and are more than 50 times more likely to commit a violent crime against whites than visa versa.

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Major Findings

1. Blacks commit violent crimes four to eight times the white rate. Hispanics commit violent crimes at approximately three times the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters the white rate.

2. Blacks are as much more violent than whites (four to eight times) as men are more violent than women.

3. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites. Blacks are 50 times more likely than whites to commit individual acts of interracial violence. They are up to 250 times more likley than whites to engage in multiple-offender or group interracial violence.

4. There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent crime. Fifty-six percent of violent crimes committed by blacks have white victims. Only two to three percent of violent crimes committed by whites have black victims.

5. Blacks are twice as likely to commit hate crimes.

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A white man raping a black child is about as rare as lightning striking a person twice! The plot of this film is just grossly unbelievable and unrealistic. It's a liberal fantasy, a way to demonize white men.



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This is the biggest piece of crap statement ever stated. THERE WERE A LOT OF WHITE ON BLACK CRIMES AS WELL AS BLACK GIRLS WHO WERE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF YOU IDIOT. This is just a movie, but you better believe during the segregation era, there were a lot of HATE CRIMES on Blacks and no they did not initiate those crimes. Before you make a very ignorant posting, please research Emmit till, Rodney King, Medgar Evers, and the countless of Black folks who died from WHITE on BLACK crimes who just wanted the same rights as anybody else. FREEDOM. Ciao.

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The op is one of those white men who likes to diminish and erase history. White men was getting away with raping black women for centuries and centures starting from slavery. There are more white on black rapes than there are black on white. I'm a white man and i can tell you the truth about this.

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Everything the OP stated was exaggerated and his 5th claim is complete Bullsh*%!!

Racial bias
Among the single-bias hate crime incidents in 2009, there were 4,057 victims of racially motivated hate crimes.

71.5 percent were victims because of an offender’s anti-black bias.
16.5 percent were victims because of an anti-white bias.
3.7 percent were victims because of an anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias.
2.1 percent were victims because of an anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native bias.
6.2 percent were victims because of a bias against a group of individuals in which more than one race was represented (anti-multiple races, group). (Based on Table 1.)
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/victims.html
Most sources agree Blacks commit more overall crimes than whites, and most interracial crimes, but Whites still top the list in racially motivated crimes.


Done and dusted.

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Someone much smarter than I once said "there are three kinds of lies: white lies, damn lies, and statistics".

I work in research, and I wholeheartedly agree with that statement.

Case in point...

I was recently compiling statistics for a government study about getting unemployed people with a disability into the workplace. The disabled respondents were asked how many hours per week they felt they were capable of working. '0' was not an available answer.

The government then publishes results saying 97% of disabled people feel they are capable of working at least one hour per week, and the majority of these believe they are capable of at least 10 hours per week. The 3 percent who did not feel they were capable of working? They had refused the answer the question as worded.

As for your final point... you make a truly ridiculous argument. You seem to be suggesting that because it it is 'rare', this means it NEVER happens. Why should people only make films about things that happen all the time, whats the point of that?

Think about most movies you have seen. How many movies have you seen about common occurences? The plots for MOST films - by your definition - would be termed "grossly unbelieveable and unrealistic".

Have you ever thought of how many crimes white commit against blacks might simply go unreported? Far more than vice versa, I can promise you that. And if I could be bothered to find statistics to back it up, I would.


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Statistics from white supremacist web sites don't count.

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The OP is correct. White on black crime, along with white on black rape is so rare, it's more rare than winning the lottery twice in your lifetime.

Just walk the streets sometime, you'll learn soon enough. The statistics back up peoples' real life experiences.

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If it's so rare, where did the phrase 'racially motivated attack' come from? Whether you believe it should refer to black on white crime, you and I know it came about because of white on black crime.

If the stats posted by the OP are true, it might be down to DA's not taking cases of white on black crime to trial, and police officers not investigating complaints made by black victims.

What makes me laugh though, is the panic this film brings out in some people. Because a black man and his daughter are treated as victims in this film and show in a sympathetic light, you gotta run and get a load of statistics because you just can't allow this gross misrepresentation to stand?? Give me a break.

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What makes me laugh though, is the panic this film brings out in some people. Because a black man and his daughter are treated as victims in this film and show in a sympathetic light, you gotta run and get a load of statistics because you just can't allow this gross misrepresentation to stand?? Give me a break.

Its not that. We do have plenty of sympathy for Carl Lee and his daughter. Its the portrayed reaction of the community around them that we feel is rather slanderous for the times it was written in, and mostly unrealistic

Bottom line is, if this happened in real life, it is highly unlikely it would have sparked a rebirth of the KKK rising up to defend these two lowlifes, and that any DA in the country would have sought the death penalty against Carl Lee. I think that's what people have an issue with in this movie and what they think is unrealistic about it.

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Boy are you sheltered. Rebirth of the KKK? You are an idiot, the KKK is well and alive in the south you moron.

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