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Blacks: Half of all murder victims

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Study: Half of all murder victims are black

Though blacks made up only about 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2005, they were the victims of 49 percent of all homicides, according to a report released by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Violence against blacks is overwhelmingly intraracial -- about 93 percent of murders were black-on-black...



Full story: http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/08/study_half_of_all_murder_victi.html

Doing a little math... Let's see, if 49% of murder victims were blacks, and 93% of those black murders were committed by blacks, then that means that... 45% of all murders originate from the 13% of the population that is black!

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45% of all murders originate from the 13% of the population that is black!



Your statistics asume each murderer kills only one victim. If only one (black) murderer killed 49% of victims, the vast majority of murderers would be white.

Serial killers remain the near exclusive domain of white males under 40.

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45% of all murders originate from the 13% of the population that is black!



Your statistics asume each murderer kills only one victim. If only one (black) murderer killed 49% of victims, the vast majority of murderers would be white.

Serial killers remain the near exclusive domain of white males under 40.

t



We'd probably know about someone that killed thousands. Anytime an event claims more than a couple lives it gets wide press. So it's safe to reject your thesis.

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45% of all murders originate from the 13% of the population that is black!



Your statistics asume each murderer kills only one victim. If only one (black) murderer killed 49% of victims, the vast majority of murderers would be white.

Serial killers remain the near exclusive domain of white males under 40.

t



The statement was that 45% of murders, not 45% of murderers, originate from 13% of the population ...
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