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Originally Posted by BillyBob
Jesse Jackson apparently agrees with you:
"There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." -JJ
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Ironic, no?
It's not really rational in his case, either -- it's just *more* rational than a white person fearing black people.
Using the numbers from your link:
The chance of a random black person not being a murderer is 99.9998%.
The chance of a random white person not being a murderer is 99.9999%.
So skin color is simply a lousy predictor for threats.