Darkcurry (haha when l typed curry, my autocorrect put
I didn't create that name ( bobc) and l only used it (in air quotes) to point out a contradiction to TDK and NY. I couldn't care less what you call it. I call it murder.
"Must prove it's a hate crime"? Well I still call it murder. Because to murder with disregard is a hate crime, period.
I live in a predom black city and have for decades. So around here we just call it murder.
I have stats for you, but to nutshell it, in the same statistical demographic, a black man has a greater chance of being killed by another black man. Not to say others don't kill him but the percentages are greater.
The whys and what-not (which l agree with you per your second paragraph) are a whole new conversation ( we have here about once a week). Nevertheless, you can moralize on the wording of crimes, it doesn't change the facts.
...Black Americans are being killed at 12 times the rate of white people in the developed world
An average of 19.4 African Americans per 100,000 people were the victims of homicide between 2010 and 2012
Black Americans are eight times more likely than white Americans and 12 times more likely than the average person in a developed country to be murdered, according to a new analysis.
Analysis of figures released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) and the US Center for Disease Control by data blog FiveThirtyEight found an average of 19.4 African Americans per 100,000 people were murdered between 2010 and 2012.
The second highest rate was in Lithuania with 6.9 people per 100,000 were murdered.