Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readJun 26, 2024

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That's because crime committed by black people is much higher per capita than by white people. That's pretty much international, by the way. That has nothing to do with privilege.

The opposite of privilege is effort. if you achieve something with no effort, that's because one had lots of help, e.g. money, status, etc. If one had no help, then more effort is required, i.e. no privilege.

QUOTE; The per-capita offending rate for African-Americans was roughly eight times higher than that of whites, and their victim rate was similar. About half of homicides are known to be single-offender/single-victim, and most of those were intraracial; in those where the perpetrator's and victim's races were known, 81% of white victims were killed by whites and 91% of black or African-American victims were killed by blacks or African-Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States

One could argue, I suppose, that it's because Africans are arrested more often, but that doesn't hold water.

I don't deny that there is bias against Africans, but it has nothing to do with privilege.

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