Edited excerpts below from the Juan Williams WSJ article that was posted by Mack27 in post #212 in this thread. Mr. Williams may be on to something.
At the risk of being labeled insensitive, given the brouhaha, one statistic cited in the Williams piece jumped out at me...>90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.
So, I pulled a USDOJ report that might have been the basis for the comments made by Mr. Williams to see if what he suggested had merit. I found the following link:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm
From the report at the link:
From 1976 to 2005 --
86% of white victims were killed by whites
94% of black victims were killed by blacks
Edited excerpts from Juan Williams WSJ article:
The race-baiters argue this case deserves special attention...
The shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida has sparked national outrage, with civil rights leaders from San Francisco to Baltimore leading protests calling for a new investigation and the arrest of the shooter.
But what about all the other young black murder victims?
Nationally, nearly half of all murder victims are black. And the overwhelming majority of those black people are killed by other black people. Where is the march for them?
The most recent comprehensive study on black-on-black crime from the Justice Department should have been a clarion call for the black community to take action. There is no reason to believe that the trends it reported have decreased since 2005, the year for which the data were reported.
Almost one half of the nation's murder victims that year were black and a majority of them were between the ages of 17 and 29. Black people accounted for 13% of the total U.S. population in 2005. Yet they were the victims of 49% of all the nation's murders. And 93% of black murder victims were killed by other black people, according to the same report.
The killing of any child is a tragedy. But where are the protests regarding the larger problems facing black America?