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I think it's probably racist in an institutional sense. There have been dozens of studies about media portrayal (particularly local news) of blacks and hispanics as criminals, disproportionate to the actual incidence, and it has pretty much sunk in in the public consciousness. (That is to say, media covers blacks and hispanics much more consistently in the context of criminal activity than would be warranted by the proportion of crimes committed by those groups, and when you ask people about their perceptions of race and crime, they're consistent with media coverage and not with statistical truth.) So I'm not surprised to see this, and even from two different people, I do think it's racist, but only to the extent that our society still has racist undertones.
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