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William Scott <scott99@charter.net> wrote in message news:<3BEB5C5E.D0114760@charter.net>...
> Jared Taylor, _Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race 
> Relations in Contemporary America_ (New York: Carrol & Graf, 
> 1992), 92-93:
> 
> "When whites do violence - rape, murder, assault - how often do 
> they choose black victims? Shouldn't a nation of bigots target 
> blacks most of the time? At least half of the time? Of course, it 
> does not. When whites commit violence, they to it to blacks _2.4 
> percent_ of the time. Blacks, on the other hand, choose white 
> victims _more than half_ the time. (n.317)
> 
> In those cases in which the race of the killer is known, blacks 
> kill twice as many whites as whites kill blacks. Black-on-white 
> robberies and gang assaults are twenty-one times more common than 
> white on black. In the case of gang robbery, blacks victimize 
> whites fifty-two times more often than whites do blacks. (n318)
> 
> The contrasts are even more stark in the case of interracial 
> rape. Studies from the late 1950s showed that the vast majority 
> of rapes were same-race offenses. Research in Philadelphia 
> carried out in 1958 and 1960 indicated that of _all_ rapes, only 
> 3.2 percent were black-on-white assaults and 3.6 percent were 
> white-on-black. Since that time, the proportion of black-on-white 
> rapes has soared. In a 1974 study in Denver, 40 percent of all 
> rapes were of whites by blacks, and _not one case_ of 
> white-on-black rape was found. In general, through the 1970s, 
> black-on-white rape was at least ten times more common that 
> white-on-black rape. (n.319)
> 
> Because interracial rape is now overwhelmingly black on white, it 
> has become difficult to do research on it or to find relevant 
> statistics. The FBI keeps very detailed national records on 
> crime, but the way it presents rape data obscures the racial 
> element rather than clarifies it. Dr. William Wilbanks, a 
> criminologist at Florida International University, had to sift 
> carefully through the data to find that in 1988 there were 9,406 
> cases of black-on-white rape and fewer than ten cases of 
> white-on-black rape. (n.320) Another researcher concludes that in 
> 1989, blacks were three or four times more likely to commit rape 
> than whites, and that black men raped white women thirty times as 
> often as white men raped black women.(n.321)
> 
> Interracial crime figures are even worse than they sound. Since 
> there are more than six times as many whites as blacks in 
> America, it means that any given black person is vastly more 
> likely to commit a crime against a white than vice versa."
> 
But we were told that professional sports would bring us all together. Hmmm.

Phil


> Notes
> 
> n. 317. "What Should Be Done," _US News & World Report_ (August 
> 22, 1989), p. 54. See also Department of Justice, _Criminal 
> Victimization in the United States, 1987_ (Washington, DC: U.S. 
> Government Printing Office, 1989), p.7.
> 
> n. 318. Department of Justice, _Criminal Victimization in the 
> United States_, 1987.
> 
> n. 319. Gary D. LaFree, "Male Power and Female Victimization: 
> Toward a Theory of Interracial Rape," _American Journal of 
> Sociology_, Vol. 88, No. 2 (September 1982).
> 
> n. 320. William Wilbanks, "Frequency and Nature of Interracial 
> Crimes," submitted for publication to the _Justice Professional_ 
> (November 7, 1990). Data derived from Department of Justice, 
> _Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1987_, p. 53.
> 
> n. 321. Andrew Hacker, _Two Nations_, pp. 183, 185.