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To: blam
Yes the average life expectancy for a black man is 67....retirement age.
18 posted on 01/07/2004 12:40:27 PM PST by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
"Yes the average life expectancy for a black man is 67....retirement age."

A lot of the inner-city 'youth' drug related deaths are distorting that number. A black man that gets beyond the age of 35 has a lot higher life expecency.

20 posted on 01/07/2004 12:46:26 PM PST by blam
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To: hobbes1
Yes the average life expectancy for a black man is 67....retirement age.

Yeah well guess why 65 was chosen originally, Because it was BEYOND the average life expectancy.
62 posted on 01/07/2004 7:36:40 PM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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