The earliest modern references to 'Black-on-Black crime' came from Black media.
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Some also say it is misleading -- white people are mainly killed by white people, they say -- but there is no conversation about"white-on-white" crime.The earliest modern references to Black-on-Black crime came from Black media.
The specific notion of"Black-on-Black crime" gained traction in a book published in 1896 titled,"The Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro," according to the professor. The author, Frederick L. Hoffman, did not use the specific phrase in the book, but promoted"the basic idea that Black people have a special crime problem," Muhammad added.
"We certainly understand when someone makes a categorical claim about an entire group of people as a race of criminals, that that is in fact a racist idea," Muhammad said. "A lot of the post-World War II programs like the GI Bill, the VA benefit … FHA housing -- were intended to help white people who were struggling in society so that their crimes would go down and their incomes would go up," he said.
Ushering in the Neoconservatism of the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan's"War on Drugs," resulted in more policing and jailing of Black people, the critics point out, adding that dog-whistle language about rampant crime in the inner-city, mostly by conservatives, helped perpetuate the"Black-on-Black crime" trope.over her use of the phrase"super predators" in a 1996 speech about crime.
A look at the biographies of some of America's most prominent Black conservatives seems to show them typically to be older people. Muhammad said there is definitely a generational difference between Black people who use the phrase and ones who criticize it.
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