"White supremacy" killings: the figures

Talking of the Florida killings: three Black men by a racist white man, with Nazi tattoos (a”lowlife” Florida governor Ron De Santis called him, accurately, surely), ABC’s Chuck Todd asks GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy why all the “White Supremacy", assuming that White Supremacy is a given. That it’s inarguably the biggest threat to America, as Joe Biden has repeatedly told us. “The gravest danger to the Homeland is White Supremacy”, goes the line. After every time there’s a killing of Blacks by a white man.

But the figures tell a different story and have done so for as long as America has kept data. From the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division (above):

• Blacks killing whites = 566 out of 3299 = 17%
• Whites killing Blacks = 246 out of 2906 = 8%

So, a bit over double. The discrepancy is greater when adjusted for relative percent of the US population: Blacks 13%, white 67%. Which gives a ratio of 11:1 for Blacks killing whites, vs whites killing Blacks.

I’m only making this point because the refrain is constantly the opposite. The opposite, that is, of what the data tell us. Could we just report all killings? Or none? Just not selectively. 

A similar rusted-on perception is about police killings of unarmed Blacks. Common perception: it’s in the thousands. Actual number: under 100/year. 

How can pushing all these wrong things help American society?