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Impossible, huh? I found numbers in a matter of minutes. They just don't support your message.
Police killed almost five black people per every million black residents of the U.S., compared with about 2 per million for both white and hispanic victims.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/776-people-killed-by-police-so-far-in-2015-161-of-them-unarmed/209127/
No, I don't get information from sources like those since they are incomplete, often inaccurate, and rely on self-reporting or volunteers.
The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.
I'm not willing to cite any source that tells you - by its own admission - that it is not accurate. Any statistical data that relies on self reporting is inaccurate at best, skewed and biased at worst.
We're 12% of the US population and are killed by police more than three times as much as whites and Hispanics per capita. The only way that's an improvement is if at one point we were almost eradicated.
We were held as chattle as one point in time. Not even that anti-government "we're all servants to government" way. Black folks were straight up property and chattle. Yes, being 3x more likely to be killed by police is better than being 99% likely to die on the plantation in my opinion.
When Mr. Moskos adjusted his data to account for that, he found that black men were 3.5 times more likely to be killed by cops than white men. That’s inconvenient.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/tak...l-story-of-race-and-police-killings/?referer=
Its funny, that article actually says Dr. Moskos' methods were flawed from the very beginning - when he was arguing that whites are more likely to be killed by blacks.
It’s hard to get real data on this. The statistics Mr. Moskos uses are deeply flawed. He drew his conclusions from a website called killedbypolice.net, which tracks news reports of fatal shootings by police. Some 25 percent of the entries have no race listed.
Read the article and you'll see that you can't really make any accurate statements about anything based on those numbers - black, white, or otherwise.
I'm not even going to get into fair trials vs. what's offered to black folks. And regarding my response as to what I'm doing, you can be frustrated all you want. Being a parent to two children is a job in itself. I work and am working for myself, so if you can add another 8 hours to the day, I'll make time for what you think is appropriate. Eventually, me being my own boss and teaching my children to be less dependent on white businesses/politicians to provide opportunities will pay off, as other like minded individuals follow similar steps.
I didn't say that as if you need to adjust how you spend your time to gain anyone's approval, I said that to tell you that your answer doesn't really say what you're doing today to help fix these issues. Because you aren't doing anything today to help fix the issues. You're taking care of your responsibilities, but you aren't going above and beyond... These are your own words, not mine.
I can tell you're not prepared to answer the question as to how voting has positively impacted our community when we vote, because you keep ducking the question. I don't want an example of one school, in one community. Give me examples of how nationally it's done any good in the name of measurable progress.
I am prepared, and I have provided a number of examples of how voting can be used to impact a community. The problem is that most of the examples for the Black community I've found come from the Reconstruction period, as our community has become so jaded by American politics, that was one of the only times we were really even able to act as an organized voting body. During that period, black VOTERS rejuvenated the Republican party, helped getting the New Deal passed, and helped to establish cities like Chicago, Detroit, and other "black" cities as safe havens for other black families leaving the Jim Crow south. I could go on and on about the changes from the New Deal alone.
After the Civil Rights movement (called Reconstruction Part 2 by some,) we haven't had political focus on any comparable level. But, I think its best if I stop trying to reason with you. You don't want proof, or nor are you willing to change your stance - you want to be right. In that case, you got it fam. Voting hasn't ever done anything for black people, and things haven't gotten better.
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