Trump predicts he can win 95 percent of the black vote

306 black people were killed by police in 2015 in the United States. Source

~37,000,000 black people lived in America in 2009. Source. It's likely significantly higher for 2016 but I don't have better numbers available.

Let's go ahead and estimate how likely you are to die to police violence as a black US citizen, and then let's compare that to how likely you are to die to other things as a black US citizen, and maybe we can see how big of an issue it actually is and where it ranks on the list of things our country should be tearing itself apart over.

I don't even support Trump; I'm a Johnson voter. I'm just sick to death of people spewing out this ridiculous BLM rhetoric like you're fucking heroes. You contribute nothing. You help nobody. You divide people into groups based on skin color and then tell anyone who doesn't want to participate that they're racist.

You drive a wedge so deeply into this country, and for what? What good can possibly come of convincing an entire demographic that they are subjugated (especially when the root of the problem is poverty, which could give a fuck less about your culture)?

/r/politics Thread Parent Link - politico.com