Race in America

The racial disparity that shows African-Americans are killed at a higher rate than the rest of the population repeatedly leads to a debate in the U.S. media about whether the disparity is due to racism or just to a higher black crime rate, but it’s really quite unnecessary.

Protesters demonstrate to call for justice in the death of George Floyd in Cincinnati, Ohio. There’s one phenomenon I’ve never seen there that I have often witnessed in quite prosperous parts of American cities—the Upper West Side, say, or Berkeley—and that is a white couple crossing the street to avoid encountering young black men on the same side of the street, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer. Photo by Julian Wan on Unsplash

Opinion

BY Gwynne Dyer

June 3, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—It’s been a bad week in the United States: several nights of protests, huge anger, rioting, and looting in dozens of cities, hundreds arrested or injured—but only six dead over the police murder of George Floyd. The number may have gone up by the ti...

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