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   From: thebeav@yahoo.com   
      
   "Karen Y Byrd"  wrote in message   
   news:slrnfbok7u.anq.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.   
   so let me get this, black people are the only ones who live in fear here   
   right? That Asian shot to death is one of three killed this year.. All your   
   sentiment Karen is not the reality. We are a city in crises. Having   
   thousands of people with guns affects everyone. not just blacks. Because   
   motown music is black don't mean only black people listen, it affects allot   
   of people. Murder in this city is a symptom ( at least to me to old city ,   
   closed stores for rent. air that is hard to breathe, and a press that lies   
   and ignores it all).   
      
   >   
   > 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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