🧩 BND Motif Index · M1071
Black-on-black crime
Talk of racist or police violence is answered with the claim that Black Americans are mostly killed by other Black Americans, so the real problem is the one the other side won't name: Black Lives Matter met with 'black people are killing black people', gun-death figures said to be mostly black men killing black men in the cities.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Crime and punishment
- 2claims filed under it
- 2right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Black people are more likely to be murdered by other Black people than by white people.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-24 “Gun-death figures used to push gun control are almost all suicides, and the rest are mostly black men killing black men in the cities.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show
M1071 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works