The danger in using such statistics too frivolously is that they can be used to bolster negative stereotypes instead of knocking them down. "For every person who believes that the over-representation of blacks in the prison system is proof of the bias inherent in the system,” wrote Alfred Edmond Jr., an editor-at-large at Black Enterprise magazine, “there is at least one other who believes that such disproportionate representation is proof positive that black men are more prone to crime and violence — and worse, that most black men are guilty until proven innocent. Statistics and facts can be used to define and defend, or to demonize and destroy.”