In an earlier bog post, Eric F. contended that the only real difference between black on black crime and white on black crime is the attention given to it by the media. While I agree with his assertion that black on black crime is ignored too often, I disagree with his main argument. White on black crime is often different from black on white crime in its nature. It is often the result of the racial prejudices that pervade our society. From 2008 to 2012, the rate of violent hate crimes against blacks was sixteen times greater than that against whites.
If we ignore the racial implications of these crimes, we fail to recognize there importance. They illustrate that we do not live in a society of equals. Hate crimes are most often used to perpetuate the systematic oppression of a minority group and, thus, further the inequality. At one point, the KKK used lynchings to assert its authority over blacks. Hate crimes are remnants of those lynchings.
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ReplyDeleteI agree, the white on black crimes we hear about are racial conflicts. In fact, that's why we hear about them. In class we discussed social narratives, or what society demands to hear. Society is interested in interracial crimes and I think that's why we hear about them much more than intraracial crimes.
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