The Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2019 crime victimization statistics report shows those who commit violent acts tend to commit them against members of the same race as the offender. Hoffman, did not use the specific phrase in the book, but promoted "the basic idea that Black people have a special crime problem," Muhammad added.Īnd as one of America's leading statisticians at the time, Hoffman was one of the first to use crime statistics to support what he considered evidence of a Black crime problem.
The specific notion of "Black-on-Black crime" gained traction in a book published in 1896 titled, "The Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro," according to the professor. "The idea that Black people kill each other is exceptional or something that can only be fixed by Black people is deeply rooted in the white supremacist past," Muhammad told ABC News. "You might not know it from reading the daily newspaper or watching the evening news on television, but most big-city crime is committed by blacks upon blacks," an article in the issue stated. "Although the Black community is not responsible for the external conditions that systematically create breeding grounds for crime, the community has the responsibility of doing what it can to attack the problem from within," the article from the August 1979 issue read.īlack Enterprise magazine, a Black-owned publication focusing on Black business and economics, also referenced Black-on-Black crime in its June 1979 issue. In 1979, Ebony magazine, the first commercially successful Black-owned magazine focusing on the African American community, featured an article about Black-on-Black crime. The earliest modern references to Black-on-Black crime came from Black media. 'Black-on-Black crime': The history of the phrase Some also say it is misleading - white people are mainly killed by white people, they say - but there is no conversation about "white-on-white" crime. What about all the Black-on-Black crime that's happening in the community?" asked Ayala, in a video posted to .ĪBC News reached out to Ayala to confirm his statement, but has yet to receive a response.
"We're protesting for months, for weeks, saying, 'Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter.' Black lives matter it seems like, only when a police officer shoots a black person. The family is Black, as per Ayala's social media, as are the suspects in McNeal's death. John Ayala reportedly used the phrase after his grandson, 11-year-old Davon McNeal, was fatally shot during a Fourth of July cookout in Washington, D.C., according to The Associated Press. The phrase is not only used by white people but also by some Black people calling out crime in their communities. From the FBI's Universal Crime Report in 2014 90% of Black people killed were killed by other Black people and 14.8% of white people killed were killed by Black people. The tweet was "quickly revealed as erroneous" according to the Washington Post. Fact checkers deemed the tweet as promoting false statistics.
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