Murder Victims In America

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Most murder victims in America are usually black people slaughtered by their own, magazine The Economist says, “Blacks represent 13% of America’s population, yet in 2015 they represented 52% of the slain.” Until now there is not an answer to why young black americans tend to be the ones being affected by this the most, whilst men from other ethnicities do not deal with such problems. The answer lies with a combination of poverty, family imbalance, epidemic of drug use in the wretched inner-urban center districts into which many total darkness s were corral by racialist housing policy, and bad, or non-existent, policing. The last of these, which may be the most important, extends far beyond occasional instances of police brutality. In America’s

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