So many are pointing to the “irrefutable mathematics” of the disproportionate number of blacks shot by police without considering what the police are doing there in the first place.

From the president on down, they are just stating this racial targeting as fact, saying it’s part of the inherent racism in this land.

Numbers carefully gathered by The Washington Post so far this year show 25 percent of fatal police shooting victims are black, while blacks make up only 13.3 percent of the population.

But consider the vastly disproportionate number of African-Americans arrested for violent crime.

Look at the annual FBI crime stats each year by race. Here’s 2012 for most of the nation:

African-Americans (remember, 13.3 percent of the population) made up 49 percent of the nation’s murder arrests; 54 percent of the nation’s robbery arrests; and 34 percent of the aggravated assault arrests.

The arrest rates for nonviolent crimes are similar: weapons violations, 39 percent; larceny, 29 percent; and motor vehicle theft, 30 percent.

This is NOT a reflection of race, but it is a reflection of these same generations-old pockets of poverty that haunt this land.