Basketball star LeBron James claimed in a tweet that black people are “hunted every time we step foot outside our homes.”
Turns out that’s not true.
The tweet was a response to the killing of “jogger” Ahmaud Aubrey who was shot after a confrontation with two white men in Georgia who believed him to be a burglary suspect.
The media has spun the incident as Aubrey being “hunted” down, despite the fact that video of the incident shows him physically charging one of the other men.
“We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!” tweeted James. “Can’t even go for a damn jog man! Like WTF man are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!
Not only is LeBron James obviously wrong with his hyperbolic tweet, the opposite is actually true.
FBI statistics show that black people are significantly more likely to murder white people than vice versa, despite them only making up 13 per cent of the population.
For example, in 2015, 500 killings of white people were attributed to blacks while 229 black lives taken by white killers. Since white people make up roughly 73 per cent of the population, there are disproportionately more black on white homicides per capita.
When you account for the fact that the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are black males, that brings the figure down closer to 6 per cent.
From 1976 to 2005, 94 per cent of black victims were killed by other African Americans, a statistic that continued to hover around the 90 per cent level since then and been the norm for over a century.
However, when a black person is murdered by another African-American, it barely makes the news.
So no, black people are not being “hunted” every time they leave the house.
The media whips up hysteria surrounding individual incidents to create the false perception that black people are being targeted en masse by whites, which is simply not true.
#1: Lod To: Horse (#0)
Lod posted on 2020-05-07 21:22:14 Reply Private Reply
#2: Horse To: Lod, NeoconsNailed (#1)
Horse posted on 2020-05-07 21:40:17 Reply Private Reply
#3: Esso To: Horse, 4um (#0)
Sincerely, straight, white, male, former slave-owner, Lord Commander Esso.
Esso posted on 2020-05-07 22:12:27 Reply Private Reply
#4: Lod To: Esso (#3)
What did a really stout young buck fetch at auction?
I'm thinking about retiring and getting shed of the entire lot.
Lod posted on 2020-05-07 22:16:51 Reply Private Reply
#5: Esso To: Lod (#4)
I dunno, Loddy, I'd have to go through my records. My last fifteen bookkeepers have died or quit. The downside of being immortal, I guess.
"The Enemy Below" (1957)
Esso posted on 2020-05-07 22:31:19 Reply Private Reply
#6: StraitGate To: Lod, Esso (#4)
Because every time he got up on the platform -- before he could even begin speaking -- some old cotton farmer would start bidding on him.
StraitGate posted on 2020-05-07 22:32:34 Reply Private Reply
#7: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um (#6)
Esso posted on 2020-05-07 22:37:25 Reply Private Reply
#8: StraitGate To: Esso (#7)
StraitGate posted on 2020-05-07 22:43:18 Reply Private Reply
#9: Lod To: StraitGate (#6)
Lod posted on 2020-05-07 22:52:51 Reply Private Reply
#10: Esso To: StraitGate (#8)
Us'n Hoosier hicks can be pretty smart fellers at times. What part of the state was your dad from? I'm in Fort Wayne, always have been always will be.
Hell, I'll most likely die within two miles of where I was born. They barely missed me a half a world away, years ago, the last two attempts were still within the two-mile limit.
Esso posted on 2020-05-07 22:55:46 Reply Private Reply
#11: NeoconsNailed To: Horse (#2)
"Michael Jordan Admitted He Hated White People Growing Up" = amren.com.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-05-07 23:05:00 Reply Private Reply
#12: StraitGate To: Esso (#10)
He was originally a Michigander. But he's lived in Indiana the last 60+ years. In Allen, Howard, Bartholomew, Brown, and Hendricks counties.
StraitGate posted on 2020-05-07 23:08:10 Reply Private Reply
#13: Fred Mertz To: StraitGate (#6)
Fred Mertz posted on 2020-05-07 23:08:51 Reply Private Reply
#14: StraitGate To: Esso (#10)
The last two attempts on your life were within two miles of home? Whoa. Take care, my friend.
That reminds me of the blond whose insurance agent told her that 90% of all car accidents occur within 25 miles of home. So she moved.
StraitGate posted on 2020-05-07 23:17:31 Reply Private Reply
#15: Esso To: StraitGate (#14)
Yeah, one was accidental, some granny from New Haven was texting one of her bundles with some earth-shattering news that apparently couldn't wait for a couple of miles until she parked her huge van, which ended up being totaled.
I was going to check on Mom for the last time of the day. Was four blocks away. I was told the traffic was backed up for miles. Didn't start coming to until the firemen & the cops were there to cut me out of the little Honda.
The first thing I remember was some asshole (probably a cop) getting right up to my face to smell my breath (I didn't drink at the time). The Drs told my soon-to-be ex-wife of 25+ years that I wasn't expected to live.
The time before a "friend" of mine hit me in the head with something in my shop trying to get money from me. When I got up, I shot him in the face with a .38 S&W I carried. We both ended up in hospitals, only one of us went to prison (not me).
I did get sued, and lost ($250,000.00). His crack-head family made short order of that.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
Apparently I can't die. Somebody keeps throwing me a rope.
(Edit2) I left out the SWAT raid on my my house when "somebody" called 911 from 120 miles away and accused me of killing my little handicapped sister. That's another story that happened between the other two. Never seen so many cop cars and M16s in one place.
My sister was fine, she didn't die until August of 2019. She was in a MedicAid waiver home with three other handicapped gals.
Esso posted on 2020-05-08 00:51:12 Reply Private Reply