WALSH: Race-Baiting Media Sounds Alarm Over ‘White Violence.’ Here Are The Facts They Won’t Tell You.

The events of the last few weeks seem to have sparked a renewed conversation about the threat posed by, in the words of a recent USA Today headline, “white violence.” Despite the fact that the Boulder shooter wasn’t even white (though all of his victims were) and a lack of evidence that the Atlanta shooter was motivated by race, the emerging narrative is that both incidents stemmed from an alleged pandemic of white brutality. A quick trip through Google will pull up countless articles and editorials with phrases like “white rage” and “weaponized whiteness” and “the threat of whiteness.” As Kamala Harris’s niece Meena Harris put it in a now-deleted tweet, “violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.” The website MLive has a story this week about black people in Michigan who are afraid to walk through the suburbs for fear of violence from whites. It’s reported that increasing numbers of black people are purchasing guns in order to defend themselves against these hordes of white villains. The message from all of this is clear: white people are uniquely dangerous. We are meant to believe — or at least to shut up and pretend we believe — that “white violence” is a massive problem in this country, and that much of that violence is interracial. 

As the media tries its hardest to stir up panic over the hordes of murderous, bloodthirsty white men supposedly roaming our streets, it becomes necessary to introduce some truth and sanity into the picture. Fortunately, the FBI (for the time being, at least until the woke mob demands that they take it down) provides homicide statistics organized into handy charts and available on their website. A look at those charts shows, first, that the vast majority of murder is intraracial. In the lion’s share of cases, one member of a race is killing another member of the same race. In 2019, there were 3,299 white victims of murder, of which 2,594 (79%) were killed by other white people. There were 2,906 black victims of murder, of which 2,574 (89%) were killed by other black people. Given the sort of wanton slaughter between races and ethnicities that you find in other parts of the world, and throughout other periods in history, it is quite remarkable how little interracial violence we actually have in this country, though the race-baiters on the Left are doing what they can to change that.