1. Crime is a matter of proximity & opportunity, so most crime is white-on-white, black-on-black, brown-on-brown, etc.
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2. Which is to say, no one experiences white-on-white crime as white-on-white, just as crime. Same with black-on-black.
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3. Two white men get into a fight at a bar. They don't experience it through prism of white-on-white crime but as "fight with that guy"
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4. Analytically therefore black-on-black crime is almost useless, just confirms truism that crime is matter of proximity & opportunity.
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5. But if black-on-black crime is analytically almost useless, it does have political function, which is why it remains robust.
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6. Rates of crime also correlate to income. Yet nobody talks about poor-on-poor violence.
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@MichaelMcGough3 We'll I'd say income isn't sole marker of black poverty, which also includes more intense social isolation & segregation
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