Mac-Coleman

25 April 1013 –

Below are some harsh statistics on violence in Black America.  We can reduce the violence, but, first, the first black President of the United States will have to set a better example with the friends he invites to our White House.    

The FBI’s “Crime in the United States: 2011” reports that there were 12,664 murders committed in the United States in 2011.  Fully half, 6,329, were Black, yet Blacks comprise only 13.8% of the total population.  The other-than-Black population in the United States had a 2011 murder rate of about 2.35 murders per 100,000 people, about the same as Finland and Luxembourg.  Black Americans were murdered at a rate of 15.5 per 100,000, 6 ½ times higher.  That rate fits up there with such garden spots of the world as Chad, Zimbabwe, DR Congo, and Nicaragua.  Importantly, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that since 2000, 93% of Blacks murdered were murdered by other Blacks.  If the rest of the U.S. population were to suffer the same murder rate as does Black America, the U.S. murder count would be about 48,000 yearly, almost four times what is now.

To focus on where Blacks are killing each other at such epidemic levels, let’s look at the murder rates in large cities.  Of the highest eleven murder rates in 2011, ten of the cities have a majority Black population:  Flint Michigan, Detroit, New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, Birmingham, Newark, Baton Rouge, Cleveland, and Memphis.  In 2012, Flint, Michigan, 60% Black, was the most dangerous place to be Black in America, with a 64.9 murder rate per 100,000 population.  Detroit is 85% Black and ranked second on the murder rate list with 54.6 murders per 100,000 population.  These two cities, if they were independent countries, would rank third and fifth in the world in murder rates, up there with Honduras, El Salvador, and Cote d’Ivoire.   

In those cities listed above, and in most other cities with high murder rates, a significant majority of the murders are young black men killing young black men over gang, drug, and illegal gun trafficking issues.  The inner-city gang culture, fed by a 70% illegitimacy rate for Black births in the U.S., has effectively destroyed legitimate black society in our cities and replaced it with mayhem.  This is a horrible situation for all Americans.

I list these statistics to challenge our first Black President.  Is he recommending effective remedies for this dismal situation?  No.  He champions laws to restrict gun ownership by already law-abiding citizens.  But, as most police contend, such laws do nothing to staunch the flow of illegal guns to gangsters, many of whom are Blacks, in our inner cities.  Just as bad, he invites gangster rap “artists” such as Jay-Z to the White House for dinner and media coverage.  Jay-Z, né Shawn Corey Carter in 1969, is a major rap producer and “singer” worth at least $500 million.  Mr. Z makes his money producing and selling filthy-language rap “songs” that extol gun violence, drug use, and virulent misogyny, aka, inner-city Black gang culture.  Sadly, our President’s inviting this panderer of societal destruction to the White House tells everybody that he approves of the message and the culture of gangster rap culture and music.  Our President is doing nothing of substance to stop the violence in the Black community in our cities.  What kind of example is that for young black men who want to be the next Black President of the United States?  And, does the President really want his daughters to be referred to as B*****hes or W***res by the young men they will soon date?  As my grandmother told me when I was a boy, you are judged by the company you keep.  Shame, Mr. President, shame.