The statistics speak for themselves

Want to know what is going wrong in the black community today? It's all in the numbers. Although they make up 13% of the nation's population, they made up 49% of all murder victims in this country in 2005. I found an article linked on Drudge that broke down the numbers.

Of 16,500 murder victims in the United States in 2005 (the most recent year for which numbers are available), about 8,000 of those victims were black. Breaking it down further, of those 8,000 black murder victims, 6,800 were male. Breaking it down further, of those 6,800 males, over half of them were between the ages of 17 and 29.

And now the number that really tells a horrible story: Of those 8,000 black murder victims, 93% of them were killed by whites.

Did that run right by your eyes, or did you do a double take? I hope you did a double take, because I just purposely gave you the wrong information to let you gauge your personal reaction. In reality, 93% of those black murder victims were killed by a black perpetrator. This is perhaps the most open secret in America. It is something that everyone knows, but no one seems to want to bring up. So much indignation is thrown around toward the police, toward supposedly racist whites supposedly practicing both individual and systemic racism, yet the numbers lay bare God's honest truth. The biggest enemy to America's black community is... America's black community. You could chalk up the murders to gang violence, but according to the statistics, gangs were involved in only 5% of the black murders. There is a pathology going on here that goes beyond the problem of gang violence.

Now let's be fair here. According to the same statistics, white murder victims were killed by a white perp 85% of the time. However, whites don't make up 13% of the population and account for 49% of the murder victims. Again, it is all about priorities.

So what is the cause of the number of black murder victims being horrendously out of proportion to the number of blacks in this country? The racism canard is no longer viable; you already saw that 93% of the time, the murderer was also black.

The day that these race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Charles Barron get as upset at these statistics as they do at the relatively infinitesimal number of blacks who are killed by police officers - both white and black - perhaps we will see a change in attitudes. Until that time, the important statistics will be ignored, while the marginal statistics will be exploited.

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