Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Quote of the Day

David A. Lehrer and Joe R. Hicks, writing for the Los Angeles Times about the demagogic rhetoric flowing from the Zimmerman acquittal:
Between 2000 and 2010, 4,607 black murder victims 17 or younger were killed by other blacks (4,441 of the killers were 17 or younger), according to the Wall Street Journal. There were 340 black victims 17 or younger killed by (non-Latino) whites. That means black youths were 13 times more likely to be killed by a black person than by a white one.

"Black youths were 13 times more likely to be killed by a black person than by a white one." I wish I could say I'm surprised ... but I'm not.