Candace Owens Lies About Rape Statistics In Baltimore
Conservative pundit Candace Owens claimed Black males in Baltimore is “main” in rape crime statistics. She was fallacious.
Throughout an look on The Ingraham Angle alongside legal professional Monique Pressley, Owens defended Donald Trump’s racist feedback concerning the Maryland metropolis, spewing unfounded allegations about Baltimore.
“Don’t defend Baltimore as a metropolis, don’t try this to Black America. Don’t faux that being in third place… someway makes Trump a liar. They’re main a murder! They’re main in rape! They’re main in sexual assault,” the 30-year-old made up. “Black Individuals are struggling within the metropolis. Since you don’t like trump you’re going to separate hairs and faux that is someway okay as a result of they’re ranked third? We deserve higher than that as a group. We deserve Trump!”
As journalist and SiriusXM host Clay Cane identified, this can be a blatant lie and it’s “media malpractice” to have Owens on tv. Watch the clip beneath:
Statista.com experiences no different metropolis in Maryland ranks within the high 50.As an alternative, Anchorage, Alaska tops the checklist, with 125.1 rapes per 100,000 individuals, 3 times the nationwide common. Anchorage is 63.65% white and solely 5.48% Black.
Pueblo, Colorado ranks second with 120.9 sexual assaults per 100,000 and Speedy Metropolis, South Dakota is available in third with 117.9 rapes per 100,000. Nationally, the speed is 27 per 100,000.
Forbes has Saginaw, Michigan as primary, Anchorage at quantity two and Baltimore just isn’t on their checklist.
In 2014, CNN reported the state of Maryland was within the backside ten of the place rape is the commonest.
Owens’ phrases encourages the parable of the Black male rapist, which is an ongoing theme in historical past, usually used as an excuse to lynch Black males.
In 2017, Biljana Oklopčić’s of the College of Osijek described how the stereotype of the Black male rapist originated within the southern states.
“Invented after emancipation, the Black rapist stereotype was the results of the rising panic about racial intermixture after the abolition of slavery and mirrored the American South’s obsession with defending white womanhood to make sure the purity of the white race. The replica of this delusion offered the idea for racial management, because it discovered justification within the perception that rape represented Black males’s want to overthrow the Southern white supremacist society. The Black rapist stereotype centered on the belief that the Black man, within the act of rape, was making an attempt to succeed in [the] white Southern lady’s social and financial standing of which she was the image.”
The parable of the Black rapist continues to perpetuate society, the prison justice system and, clearly, on Fox Information by pundits like Candace Owens.