The Stain of American Racism is Colored Blood Red: Black Americans Killed at 12 Times Rate of Other Developed Countries

[Fred Sanders]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/black-americans-are-killed-at-12-times-the-rate-of-people-in-other-developed-countries/

"Extending on an analysis by the academic Kieran Healy, I calculated the rate of U.S. homicide deaths by racial group, based on the CDC WONDER data.3 From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year.

Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white ones to be homicide victims, in other words.

So for white Americans, the homicide death rate is not so much of an outlier. It’s only modestly higher than in Finland, Belgium or Greece, for instance, and lower than in Chile or Latvia."

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[Travis_0004]

1. Here is another way to look at racial data on murders

[Fred Sanders]

2. Since blacks homicides by white cops is a statistic not kept, your graph is missing something....full data.

And we all know a white killer will get more than a fair trial and so avoid being in the data count.

Zimmerman killed Martin - yet because of the acquittal will not go into the data bank, will it?

And the conclusion is not just a racial one, it is also a message of the violence and gunplay epidemic in America.

[Travis_0004]

3. Statistics are racist

Its not my graph. Its data generated by the FBI.

I agree with you that if zimmerman was black, and Martin was white, Zimmerman probably would have been convicted, but that does not explain a disparity of 10x.

[LanternWaste]

4. Seems to parallel the hypothesis that crime and violence are born of systemic poverty

Seems to parallel the hypothesis that crime and violence are born of systemic poverty, a lack of access to quality education and little societal support.