Brent Baranko: Don’t make excuses for institutional racism

The recipe for ongoing institutional racism in this country begins with a healthy dose of Levi Hilton’s commentary “A dangerous fallacy facing my generation” published in The Salt Lake Tribune Aug. 14.He states that a Black man is 2.6 times more likely to be shot by a police officer than a white man. Yet Black men only comprise 7% of the population. He closes with “Black Americans are responsible for 36% of violent crime and 51% of homicides.”His inference is: Black