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   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:17:45 GMT, beav  wrote:   
      
   >In something more out of a twilight zone.. A dead city of violence and   
   >horrific air quality daily.. every day.. the same hell.. fears of violence   
   >and lost health resound. Doctors and hospitals and satelite hospitals for   
   >test and cancer clinics and three heart and lung centers.   
      
   When are you going to grasp that much of the violence and killing   
   is caused and being experienced by black people and **THAT'S**   
   what's getting worse, day-by-day, year-after-year.   
      
   Don't believe me? Here it is one more effing time:   
      
      
   Half U.S. murder victims are black   
   WASHINGTON - Nearly half the nation's murder victims in 2005 were black,   
    and the number of black men who were slain is on the rise.   
      
    A majority of the black murder victims were between 17 and 29,   
    the Justice Department said in a study released yesterday.   
      
    The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics report offers a   
    snapshot of racial disparities among violent-crime victims.   
    Black people constituted about 13 percent of the U.S. population   
    in 2005, the latest year for which data are available, but   
    were the victims of 49 percent of all murders and 15 percent   
    of rapes, assaults, and other nonfatal violent crimes   
    nationwide.   
      
    Ninety-three percent of the black murder victims were killed   
    by other black people, the study found. About 85 percent of   
    white victims were slain by other whites.   
      
    The study showed that 6,783 black men were murdered in 2005,   
    up from 6,342 in 2004.- AP   
      
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