Roughly 31% of all interracial murders in the U.S. are committed by the 77% of the population that is white. Over the past 40 years, roughly 11% of all murders in the U.S. were interracial. The rest involved people of the same races slaying one another. Politicians and the media often focus on a tiny fraction of the 15,000+ murders that occur every year, typically a white against another race. This is a common strategy of racists and demagogues, who demonize broad groups of people based on the actions of a few. Such tactics exploit the statistical fact that anecdotes can be highly deceitful and the psychological fact that people are easily misled by them because it's easier to grasp stories than data.