While it would be easy to classify your comment as thoughtless racism, being HN I will call it being naive about statistics. The FBI stats may well say 'x% of

While it would be easy to classify your comment as thoughtless racism, being HN I will call it being naive about statistics. The FBI stats may well say 'x% of burglaries are committed by black males', which might represent a rate 3x the overall population. But that does not mean that any individual black male you encounter is likely to be a burglar. Additionally, there is a much stronger explanatory variable -- poverty and lack of opportunity. It transcends race. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United...