Murders

Over this past weekend 43 people where shot and 10 killed in Chicago. I scanned the various news outlets and found one mention on the BBC site. This is akin to black on black genocide yet it is not deemed news worthy. While the murder rate in the US has been going down over the past 30 years reaching the lowest point since 1966, the rate of blacks killing blacks is increasing. Even though blacks represent 13% of the population they account for over 50% of homicides and almost all are blacks killing blacks. Last year there were 987 fatal shootings by police and 223 were blacks and most of these received considerable news coverage but the 7,000 blacks killed by other blacks received very little coverage.