Furguson or whatever...

Heard a voice on the radio claim that cops killing black men may amount to modern day lynching, which made me think 'wait a minute'..... According to studies conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011 there were 279,384 black murder victims, of which 262,621 were murdered by other blacks-a 94% figure. As awful as that statistic sounds, the rate of black people killed per 100,000 persons has dropped from around 50 murders in 1976 to around 25 as of 2005. That is still way more than the white rate of around 5 murders per 100,000 in 1976 which had dropped to around 3.5 in 2005. Despite the street protests and genuine grievances in some cases, the bulk of the violence remains black on black, so the real outrage should be directed to that continuing problem.
POSTSCRIPT: April 2015~It seems as though the recent murder of the black man by the Charleston cop-eight shots in the back- WAS a lynching by gun... Ignorant white trash...makes me wonder about justice including an eye for an eye...just tell the guy to start running...So no doubt racial problems still exist, but don't forget that we fought a civil war over this issue and that half of the 500,000 white guys killed were trying to improve the situation...
POST~POSTSCRIPT~ An inspiring book is 'THE PACT' by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt describing their journey through medical school as they raised themselves from the projects of Newark, N.J.by sticking together and focusing on the positive.