However, key elements of the intersectional narrative are not supported by the data. It is now a standard stereotype, implanted on first-year students' summer reading lists through the works of Ta-Nehesi Coates and others, that whites pose a serious, if not deadly, threat to blacks. At one time this may have been true, but today it is no longer. Just this month, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released its 2018 Criminal Victimization Survey. According to the study, there were 593,598 cases of interracial violence (excluding homicides) between blacks and whites last year, including attacks by whites on blacks and blacks on whites. Blacks committed 537,204 of these interracial crimes, or 90%, while whites committed 56,394, or less than 10%. This ratio is becoming increasingly unequal, despite Democrats' claims of Trump-inspired white violence. In 2012-2013, black people committed 85% of all interracial crimes between black and white people: white people committed 15%. Between 2015 and 2018, the total number of white victims and the frequency of their occurrence also increased.
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