Do "Statistics" keep Racism Alive in America?

These are Commonly Quoted Numbers:

Crime Rates

* Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
* When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
* Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent crimes at about one quarter the white rate.
* The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic.

Interracial Crime

* Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
* Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
* Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
* Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.

I see these numbers published often to help people justify why it's OK to shun the "Other". If they are widely believed by the masses, it's no wonder racism stays alive. We have a horse before the cart conundrum. IF these are legitimate, then, do we attempt to nullify and modify the racial attitudes they inevitably produce, or do we make more vigorous attempts to change the culture, hearts and mindsets that produces a set of statistics like this?

Are the leaders in the culture where these issues are most manifested prepared to stand up and take authority over the dysfunctional mindsets ... on both sides.

Or do we allow another Trayvon Martin event to polarize us further?