Black Teen Murder Rates Rising

Who's to blame when murders committed by black youth have soared by as much as 34 percent since the millennium?


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That staggering statistic comes courtesy of a Northeastern University report released today and reported on widely. Unfortunately, most folks that this report concerns the most were probably pre-occupied with the absurd insult of that "Barack the Magic Negro" blip that Chip Saltsman released earlier this year, to the delight of our President-elect's detractors.
Note to the RNC's Mr. Ken Blackwell: Quit clownin'! You too, Larry Elder; if your words held any weight you would't have to bug your eyes, wave your arms and squawk.
Forget that distraction. What matters is that 1,142 black boys aged 14 to 17 committed murder last year. I'm no math whiz, but doesn't that equate to more than 200 kids killing kids (in most cases) per state in 2007?
Who's going to step up and help stop this madness?
One expert, conservative Carnegie Mellon criminologist Dr. Alfred Blumstein, told the times that the breakdown of the black family is chiefly to blame.
"In the inner city, you have large numbers of kids with no future, hanging out together with a great emphasis on their street credibility."

As gun laws loosen, the economy falters, peer pressures tighten and households dissolve, what hope is there in beating back that phantom "Mr. Big" who keeps crime scenes appearing?