What a well thought out argument! I guess if you're going to protest, it helps to have the full picture.  The numbers don't lie. But neither do they exist in a vacuum. I don't believe there's a conversation in reality or in theory that will make a difference regarding the inarguable racism in the US. There were slaves in Jamestown a decade before the Puritans arrived. By the time Martin Luther King, Jr. was marching for civil rights in the 1960s, either legal or de facto economic slavery and legal or de facto murderous open violence toward Black people had been going on for over 350 years. I know, "look what they do to themselves and us" appears makes sense if you look at crime stats from 2015. How we got where we are has been a very long time coming, and we aren't here because good people died in the mud for equal rights, as noble as that sounds.   We're here because far more people died under far worse conditions for a very long time, and this isn't a values debate about ideals.