The Real Difficulty

Jason Riley, a young black man who writes for The Wall Street Journal, commenting on Fox News about the furor surrounding the events in Ferguson, MO. The video and text are available on RealClearPolitics.

I know something about growing up black and male in the inner city and it's not that hard to avoid getting shot by a cop. They pull you over, you answer their questions, you are on your way.

The real difficulty is not getting shot by other black people if you are a young black man in these neighborhoods and again that is something we need to talk more about. Cops are not the problem. Cops are not producing these black bodies in the morgues every weekend in Chicago, in New York and Detroit and so forth. That's not cops. Those (are) other black people shooting black people.

I expect Riley is correct about the relative dangers.