1. There are hundreds of millions of guns and people in America.
2. Police officers help black (and white) people millions of times per year.
3. Police officers murder black (and white) people at most dozens of times per year.
4. Black criminals murder thousands of black people per year.
Any black person who is more afraid of being murdered by a police officer than a black criminal is being highly irrational.
Any person that can't accept the reality that a small number of murders of black (and white) people by police are inevitable in such a big and well armed country is being highly irrational.
A totally reasonable goal is to try to reduce the number of murders as much as possible, which is something that no one disagrees with.
The idea that police are murdering in huge numbers, or that the problem is growing precipitously, is simply a result of people unable to overcome selection bias. They're watching a handful of videos and then exaggerating the problem in their minds.
No, he's just playing word games. That doesn't mean the argument is one of semantics.
If the problem is too much poverty, then the solution is to reduce poverty.
If the problem is too much racism, then the solution is to reduce racism.
The greedy rich people's corporate media pushes the racism narrative to keep the focus away from the primary problem because fixing poverty might cost them something.
All the well meaning people pushing the racism narrative are doing their work. Pawns in the game.
2. Police officers help black (and white) people millions of times per year.
3. Police officers murder black (and white) people at most dozens of times per year.
4. Black criminals murder thousands of black people per year.
Any black person who is more afraid of being murdered by a police officer than a black criminal is being highly irrational.
Any person that can't accept the reality that a small number of murders of black (and white) people by police are inevitable in such a big and well armed country is being highly irrational.
A totally reasonable goal is to try to reduce the number of murders as much as possible, which is something that no one disagrees with.
The idea that police are murdering in huge numbers, or that the problem is growing precipitously, is simply a result of people unable to overcome selection bias. They're watching a handful of videos and then exaggerating the problem in their minds.