Don't blame all black people for the few rioters and arsonists

Huffington Post reported this episode of Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" last week:
Noting that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani had said on Fox News that "93% of blacks are shot by other blacks.   They're killing each other.   They don't talk about that."

First, statistics also show that something like 86% of whites who are shot and shot by whites.   So maybe the determinative factor is not racial but the fact that you tend to shoot people you are around.   That fits with the fact that the majority of people killed with guns are shot by people that know them.

All that is beside the point of this anecdote, which is this.    Jon Stewart had as his guest the Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore, and he quoted Giuliani's statement and then asked Wilmore, "What do you say to those people?"

"They should probably go fuck themselves," said Wilmore, who will be taking over Stephen Colbert's 11:30 p.m. time slot starting next month.

Stewart then played a clip of Bill O'Reilly claiming that even the peaceful protestors in Ferguson were "aiding and abetting" those who burned and looted, thus indicting a whole race for the actions of a few.    To which Wilmore replied:

“I have a dream, Jon, that one day, the actions of a few shitty white people will be seen as discrediting their entire race.”

[Drum roll.    Crowds cheers !!!]

Ralph