ttystikk
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I think you are working hard to ascribe the statistics to racial causes and frankly I think that attitude is part of the problem rather than the solution.No, "America" doesn't. BLACK COMMUNITIES, on the other hand, certainly do.
There is a poisonous culture that exists in our black communities that exists in no other community in the nation. It is a culture that embraces violence, ignorance, dependence, and attacks and mocks order, education, and civility. Be they poor white trash, Latino, or any other segment of society that lives in poverty, NONE murder at the rate that our black communities do. Until THEY are willing to confront and change the culture of violence they live by, and celebrate in many cases, then nothing will ever change.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers
What's missing from this article and others is any discussion of homicides vs poverty and the effects of systemic, institutional and intergenerational racism. Treat any racial group as badly as America treats its black people and I have no doubt they'd be shooting each other in large numbers, too.