Being poor does not make you black.
Being black does seem, from the data, to make you poor.
Being a murderer, does not make you black.
Being black does seem, from the data, to make you prone to murder.
So.....from the data:
Does being being poor make you a murderer?
Does being a murderer make you poor?
Does being black make you poor and/or a murderer?
Can a question be racist?
Can a fact be racist?
Facts are not racist, but what we see within a micro-culture is truly tragic. We need to have a national discussion that is honest and frank because we all lose by allowing this to continue.
I have often said that our nation would spare no expense to rescue a small child who fell down a well - it would be covered by the news and millions would pray for the child and rescue workers. Every day in our inner-cities there are children born to mothers who are as statistically doomed as that child would be in a well. Yet, we do nothing to change the circumstances that birthed the child, we continue to subsidize the problem, and we are told we cannot speak about it because of color. Does anyone honestly think color matters?