I realize it doesn't help to site statistics when someone FEELS like something is true, even if it's not. I know you have to get true information into the discussion, but it's difficult to work around confirmation bias. I was trying to think of something irrational that I fear, even though it's untrue, and I had an epiphany of sorts. I looked up the statistics for child abduction, and the odds of my child being abducted by a stranger is similar to an unarmed black person being a shot. No amount of knowing the truth would ease the concern I have for their safety. So, how do you move past this feeling in the black community?

This is probably the primary reason I harp on the media consistently. Their primary job is to make money, and they continually profit by selling fear. We really need to start rejecting this kind of mass hysteria. I don't know how to even begin to address it, though. My first start is making news nonprofit.

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