black people can no longer say this is exclusively a white issue. thank fuckin god.
It never was. Look up photos of mass shooters and you’ll see a lot of black, brown,
and white faces. Admittedly, that term covers everything from lone wolf massacres to gang shootings, but the meme that white people are the
only ones (or even the
majority) doing these crimes is bunk. Black people I know even have conceded this point to me and said that, while they were told growing up that these sorts of crimes were “white people shit”, they don’t believe it anymore because of the concomitant evidence. Which shows more intellectual honesty than most: The biggest predictor of these crimes is having a dick, but no one wants to concede
that.
Anyway, here’s a little overview of school shootings by race that
I found by googling:

Wow, what’s up with white people!? Before we go full-racism-sicko-mode, let’s do some math. 82 shootings out of a total of 151 attacks…
Mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and September 2024, sorted by the shooter's race or ethnicity; relative to U.S. demographics:
Race | Attacks | Percentage of Total Attacks | Percentage of US Population in Racial Group |
White | 82 | 54% | 57.8% |
Black | 26 | 17% | 12.1% |
N/A | 13 | 8.6% | |
Latino | 12 | 7.9% | 18.7% |
Asian | 10 | 6.6% | 5.8% |
Other | 5 | 3.3% | |
Native American | 3 | ~2% | 0.9% |
Oh
wow, so white and Hispanic people actually commit
fewer mass shootings than you would expect based on racial demographics? And blacks and Asians commit
more than their population would imply? Wow, so cool! It’s
almost like we were both lied to!
Obviously there are some issues with my math - the study covers multiple decades and I used racial demographics from now, for example. Another problem would be confounding variables like
where the attack happened (urban, suburban, or rural location), but you get the point. The “white people be like” meme is
just that, at least when you’re discussing mass murder.