O'Reilly: "You always hear the cops are picking on African-Americans, but whites are arrested way higher than African-Americans"
March 12, 2010 10:07 pm ET
From the March 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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Was Rodney King on the ground seeking Social Justice? Was he being a Contrarian?
Hey Bill-O, Try Replacing yourself with a Black Man and then Phone Rape Andrea Mackris.
All of a sudden it's no longer an "Innocent Mis-understanding" but a Matter for the Police.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
In 2008 (the year of the report that Oreilly is quoting from for arrests) the census bureau lists the white population of our country to be at 75% and the black population as just 12.4%
I'll go with operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Alex.
As of December 2008 (last year of Statistics compiled)
Total prison population:
840,700 non black
586,200 black
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=132
He's a less mousey Alan Colmes who may be in the process of eating some type of rodent by the look of his upper lip.
Imprisonment rate per 100,000 of population
Men Women
Total 952 62
White 487 50
Black 3,161 149
Hispanic 1,200 75
As a percentage:
Total 0.95% 0.06%
White 0.49% 0.05%
Black 3.16% 0.15%
Hispanic 1.20% 0.08%
Fox News maybe?
Mine came from here.
Of course, it is a (shudder) government site.
I'm sure they are under reporting the white inmates and over reporting the minority inmates.
"Nuh-UH" isn't really an answer.
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
ya'tahe'
Which is precisely why what O'Reilly said is utterly idiotic.
Besides, what "census numbers" is he referring to? There aren't any "census numbers" from 2010. He's using 10 year old figures?
Arrests, by Race, 2008
* In 2008, 69.2 percent of all persons arrested nationwide were white, 28.3 percent were black, and 2.5 percent were other races.
* Of all juveniles (persons under the age of 18) arrested in 2008, 66.4 percent were white, 30.9 percent were black, and 2.7 percent were other races.
* Nearly 70 percent (69.7) of all adults (persons aged 18 and over) arrested were white, 27.8 percent were black, and 2.4 percent were other races.
* White persons were more often arrested for violent crimes than were black persons, accounting for 58.3 percent of those arrests.
* The number of adults arrested for murder and nonnegligent manslaughter was almost equally divided between black arrestees (49.1 percent) and white arrestees (48.8 percent).
* Black juveniles accounted for 51.6 percent of juveniles arrested for violent crimes.
* White juveniles accounted for 64.7 percent of juveniles arrested for property crimes.
O'Reilly tends to use the words "picking on" more loosely than he should. What he is talking about is racial profiling. It is true that African-Americans are the subject of racial profiling more often than any other group in America. He was just too chicken to call it racial profiling.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_43.html
* Nearly 70 percent (69.7) of all adults (persons aged 18 and over) arrested were white, 27.8 percent were black, and 2.4 percent were other races.
How many "other races" are there????
When he's talking about whites no longer being a majority, he is talking about non-Hispanic Caucasians. The arrest statistics, though, don't separate Hispanics out. The 69% white - 28% black figures compare to the population numbers under Ethnicity here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
This should be obvious to anyone who can add 28 + 69. Anyone who thinks Hispanics account for at most 3% of arrests in the United States is as dumb as O'Reilly.
You might want to look things up on government sites, Dancing Queen.
What you are trying to say here is "what is the per capita arrest percentage?" In other words, if X% of the population is 'white' and Y% of the population is 'colored', and we assume that both commit crimes at the same rate, there should be the same percentages in jail. However, one example where this is not true is in the "crack" vs "powder cocaine" sentencing disparity. If someone is arrested with 'crack', the sentence is several times higher than with 'powder' (BTW, cocaine in either form is the same chemically). Since 'crack' is more commonly used in 'black' communities, and 'powder' in 'white', there is a clear disparity, which Legislatures have recently looked at correcting.
Shorter BillO: I will NEVER stop claiming victimhood for my people!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity
Everyone seems to accept that the country is going to be majority non-White some day. I think something is going to happen to prevent that. Something, a change in our immigration laws combined with a much more socially and economically hostile environment for non-Whites perhaps.
Then my question is why are there more blacks in prison than whites?
Check it out here...
I haven't noticed that facts make any kind of impression on your viewpoint. Thus my comment, you either need help or you need to revise your shtick.
Don't worry, I don't expect much on the intertubes.
Also, don't feel bad for "the poor black man" (your words); the latinos are toping the list of most arrested.
You people ore really out of touch racists..... Shades of harry reid and robert byrd....
Another issue is that Oreily pulled the arrested stat not that DWBNC(Driving while black in a nice car) isn't prevalent . The question is how many were actually charged with something and what was the severity of the charges. We look at OJ and R Kelly because its not usually for an AA to get acquitted. We can look at the news and a lot of people with a certain pigment get arrested but then get a slap on the wrist or max go to a country club prison.
If Limbaugh or Hannity had said what Dan Rather said to Chris matthews a few days ago...Media doesn'tmatter would have been sending this out as a broadcast email within 10 minuts.
But since liberal paragon of speaking with pecker in mouth Dan Rather said it....of course connecting the black president and watermelon isn't a racist statement at all...is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UHz7VtpqY
So lets assume you are right, and you may well be.....
Exactly WHY is that the case??? I always wondered???
But wait, you'll deny that, that's what Rush does, right? Makes a thinly veiled racial implication, then backs off of it.
And it seems like the political left, which blacks have loyally supported for 40 years, can do NOTHING about it.
"Sorry your 5 year old got her brains blown out at the park by a gang-banger's errant bullet. Vote Democrat and stp racial profiling!"
Are you seriously implying that the Democrats in some way, shape or form are responsible for the impact of violent crime on "the black community?" Do you know how ridiculous you sound?
Or even worse, the post (if not saying the above) then reads as a serious consideration of racial profiling as legitimately affecting communities to the tune of decreasing violent crime? Really? You sound as loony as ever.
Always good to see a near unilaterally one race majority party claim to be about diversity and equality.