A color graph dramatized the racial disparity in gun-related homicides in the state: while nine percent of the population is African American and ten percent is Latino, 61 percent of homicide victims in 2006 were black, and 15 percent were Latino.I suppose it would raise all kinds of ugly accusations if someone were to sugggest graphing the race of the perpetrators of these homicides, so I guess it's less uncomfortable for everyone if we just blame the guns...
I've said it before, and I don't back down from it:
[W]e also can't forget to look at race--not as a cause of violent crime, but as an indicator of populations most directly affected by and responsive to a continuing history of destructive government policies.
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Of course they can't look at the race of the perpetrators of African American homicide! If they pointed out that an African American is several hundred times more likely to die at the hands of someone with his own ethnic background then they'd have to study why this occurs.
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