No one says there are no White serial killers but you can't go by what the media and hollywood have magnified, promoted, and jammed down people's throats. According to one study reported on Wikipedia, Blacks are over 3 times over-represented and Whites are underrepresented population-percentage-wise. Any study will show an over representation of Blacks population-percentage-wise regarding serial killer representation.
Blacks are roughly 12.1% of the US population and non-Hispanic Whites are roughly 62%. Whites used to be a much higher % of the population.
Yes, Harvey Weinstein et al. have convinced
some Whites that they are the serial killer race. No doubt about that.
Don't hand over your thinking to hollywood and the media.
Serial killer ethnicity and demographics in the United States:
"The racial demographics regarding serial killers are often subject to debate. In the United States, the majority of reported and investigated serial killers are white males, from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in their late 20s to early 30s.[6][15] However, there are African American, Asian, and Hispanic (of any race) serial killers as well, and, according to the FBI, based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.[15] Criminal profiler Pat Brown says serial killers are usually reported as white because serial killers usually target victims of their own race, and argues the media typically focuses on "All-American" white and pretty female victims who were the targets of white male offenders; that crimes among minority offenders in urban communities, where crime rates are higher, are under-investigated; and that minority serial killers likely exist at the same ratios as white serial killers for the population. She believes that the myth that serial killers are always white might have become "truth" in some research fields due to the over-reporting of white serial killers in the media.[90]
According to some sources, the percentage of serial killers who are African American is estimated to be between 13% and 22%.[91][92] Another study has shown that 16% of serial killers are African American, what author Maurice Godwin describes as a "sizeable portion".[93]
A 2014 Radford/FGCU Serial Killer Database annual statistics report indicated that for the decades 1900–2010, the percentage of white serial killers was 52.1% while the percentage of African American serial killers was 40.3%.[60]In a 2005 article Anthony Walsh, professor of criminal justice at Boise State University, argued a review of post-WWII serial killings in America finds that
the prevalence of non-white serial killers has typically been drastically underestimated in both professional research literature and the mass media. As a paradigmatic case of this media double standard, Walsh cites news reporting on white killer Gary Heidnik and African-American killer Harrison Graham. Both men were residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; both imprisoned, tortured, and killed several women; and both were arrested only months apart in 1987. "Heidnik received widespread national attention, became the subject of books and television shows, and served as a model for the fictitious Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs", writes Walsh, while "Graham received virtually no media attention outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, despite having been convicted of four more murders than Heidnik".[94]"
