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Title: Not News: Blacks Commit Growing Share of Reported 'Hate Crimes'
Post by: rangerrebew on November 19, 2017, 07:01:04 pm

Not News: Blacks Commit Growing Share of Reported 'Hate Crimes'
By Tom Blumer | November 18, 2017 7:10 PM EST

The Federal Bureau of Investigation published its annual hate crime statistics earlier this week. The press has dutifully fallen into line with the predictable narrative that the 5 percent reported in hate crimes in 2016 occurred because of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

The numbers tell a far different story.
 
Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2017/11/18/not-news-blacks-committing-disproportionate-and-growing-share