I will return to this theme in a moment, but let me come at this from another angle, with another set of statistics. Black men and women over 20 had an unemployment rate of over twice that . . . Whites under 20 were unemployed at a rate of 10.6 percent, blacks under 20 . . . One quarter of all young black people looking for work cannot find jobs. That's a very different headline than the one you will hear on the nightly news.
Black babies die at over twice the rate of white babies.
More likely to die at birth and less likely to live to the age of 75. Men in China and India have a better chance of living til 75 than black men in America. Here's another horrifying statistic. Black Americans make up almost ten times the number of AIDS cases in the U.S. as compared to white Americans. 85.7 per 100,000 as compared to 9.9 per 100,000.