[VeejayRampay]

What about the fact that there is a system of ghetto-ization that ensures that a huge chunk of the black population is marginalized and ostracized? What about the fact that the worst areas (where said crimes are committed) of the densely populated urban swaths are disproportionately inhabited by African-Americans?

What about institutionalized educational and police racism? What about the presence of drugs and the lack of social workers cause God forbid rich people pay higher taxes for the well-being of others?

What about the absence of fathers leaving innocent children to grow up without good role models because daddy is in jail for an egregiously long "drug offense" sentence (i.e. toking on a blunt)?

That stuff is systemic, showing out-of-context bar charts from the FBI doesn't make it right.

[GoldenHomer]

I am sadden that you are justifying black murderers.

[happyscrappy]

Inner cities — cities often overwhelmingly run by minorities — have different standards than those elsewhere, we can then ask why and dig deeper to the root of the problem. We can ask cultural questions and compare the percentage of intact nuclear families across races. We can do surveys on parental attitudes about the importance of education or examine voting patterns. We can ask if it is possible for a city like Detroit — run for decades by progressives, many of them minorities — to be the “victim” of “white privilege.” Did white privilege clouds from Orange County, Calif. make their way east until they dumped fiscal malfeasance and out-of-wedlock births on Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia?