It has been a bad statistic for decades and no one seems to want to talk about. Probably because racism. But you can’t hope to fix anything if you can’t talk about it. I think it basically it means living as a poor black in America is akin to living in a some other 3rd world nation with a high murder rate. It is important to note too that crime by middle and upper class blacks reflects those of other races. Poverty is the root disease I think.
If you look at the 2013 FBI stats, of the 2491 blacks killed, 2245 were killed by another black person. Though that make sense to a degree, as people are murdered generally by people they know, and of the 3005 whites murdered, 2509 were murdered by other whites, but because there as so many more whites in the country, the per capita rate is much less.
But clearly there is something going on in our poor black, densely populated areas. Are they being held down by the system? Learned helplessness? Differences in culture? A combination of this and many more things? How do we help make it better? That is the real question which has no easy answers.
