Before Dylann Roof killed 9 African Americans at a Charleston church in 2015, he’d read online white supremacist propaganda about high rates of “black on white crime.”
This myth is an untruthful, damaging narrative with a very long history in America. bit.ly/2LNQL2i
This myth is an untruthful, damaging narrative with a very long history in America. bit.ly/2LNQL2i
The idea that black people possess a unique proclivity for violence has its roots in justifying slavery, and continues to infect the thinking of policymakers. It is the most enduring way of justifying continued discrimination. 
White supremacists have long employed science to give their racism the appearance of logic. Ex. craniometry, measuring skulls to “prove” intellectual differences between African Americans and whites, in the early 1800s gave way to using crime statistics to justify discrimination.
Klan violence or the lynching of black people by white people has historically never been ascribed to an inherent white trait.
Yet, public figures like Pres. Trump have spread the faulty research behind this harmful myth. As a candidate in 2015, he tweeted an image originating from a neo-Nazi account with bogus crime statistics insinuating that black people are uniquely violent. bit.ly/2LMFYFB
The idea of out-of-control black violence remains a main recruiting tool for the hate movement. This narrative of black criminality is central to American history, and it persists as white supremacy’s enduring siren song. splcenter.org/20180614/bigge…
