Are White Males the biggest terror threat to America?

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Since Don Lemon of CNN Tonight attacked white males in 2018, any time a white male commits a massacre, we hear comments about “angry white men” or “white supremacists.”

On 29 Oct. 2018, two days after the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre, Don Lemon declared: "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban — you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white-guy ban. So what do we do about that?”

Lemon then referred to a Government Accountability Office report that says since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, right-wing extremists have killed 106 people in 62 different attacks in U.S., while Islamist extremists have killed 119 people in 23 different attacks. Note they start counting AFTER the 9/11 attacks when Muslim terrorists killed 2,977 Americans. 

The Root, a black run website, did their own study on domestic terrorism. Their conclusions? “Whites are 75.6 percent of the population, which means they are actually underrepresented in the terrorist community relative to their percentage of the population.”(1)

But are murders by Muslims and Right Wing extremists the only threat? Let’s follow the statistics. What group commits the most murders and then compare their numbers relative to their percentage of the population.

FBI crime stats on murder in the U.S.(2)
Blacks are about 13 percent of the population.

 

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Year
2002
2003
2004
'
Murders
16,204
16,503
16,137
White
Offenders
5,356
5,132
5,339
Black
Offenders
5,579
5,729
5,608
Other(3)
Offenders
274
308
271
Unknown(4)
Offenders
4,604
4,874
4,717
.
Notes
Detroit had 402 murders
Chicago had 601 murders
,
2005
2006
2007
16,692
17,034
16,929
5,452
5,339
5,278
6,379
6,843
6,463
299
295
245
4,899
4,922
5,054
 
 
2008
2009
2010
16,272
15,241
14,748
5,334
5,286
4,849
5,943
5,890
5,770
273
245
251
4,727
4,339
4,224
1
Baltimore had 238 murders
 
2011
2012
2013
14,612
14,827
14,196
4,729
4,582
4,396
5,486
5,531
5,375
245
240
249
4,077
4,228
4,112
1
Chicago had 532 murders
 
2014
2015
2016
2017
14,249
15,696
17,250
17,284
4,367
4,636
5,004
5,125
5,173
5,620
6,095
6,444
225
283
291
314
4,132
4,787
5,574
5,368
1
Baltimore had 342 murders
Chicago had 765 murders
Baltimore had 343 murders
 
 

From 1980 to 2013, 2,269 police officers were murdered. The racial breakdown of their murderers shows that 41 percent were black. (5)

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks committed 52 per cent of all homicides between 1980 and 2008.(6) 


 
 
Sources:
1. https://www.theroot.com/are-white-men-americas-biggest-terror-threat-we-checke-1830175112
2. Murders not counted include the killing of a felon by a peace officer in the line of duty or the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen.
3. Includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
4. There is no category for Hispanic. In the 2010 U.S. Census, more than half of Hispanics identified themselves as white and 37 percent responded “some other race.” So Hispanic killers are mixed between the ‘white’ and ‘unknown’ categories.  Also, not all agencies provide racial or ethnicity data so these killers go into the ‘unknown’ category. 
5.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/09/are-black-or-white-offenders-more-likely-to-kill-police/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7eb200caee91
6. https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf    (page 12)
Jan 2023