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Thursday, July 16th, 2015

Stats wiz Nate Silver: For black Americans, US is about as dangerous as Rwanda

Author:     Katie Halper
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     14 Jul 2015 at 15:14 ET
Link: Stats wiz Nate Silver: For black Americans, US is about as dangerous as Rwanda
Stephan:   Here is some data that shows the reality of race in the U.S. It is not a pretty picture. When I read it I was reminded of research I did some months ago that revealed that a child, particularly a Black child, born in rural North Carolina, an increasingly benighted Red value state, has less of a chance of living to see their first birthday than a child born in Botswana. As a nation we need to stop trying to dominate the world and do something within our own borders to improve the quality of life for those who live here.
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Nate Silver Credit: Wikipedia

For black and white Americans, the difference between life and death is literally worlds apart. Although we may know this on some level, Nate Silver, the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight, has the startling statistics that demonstrate this reality.

As he explained to me on the latest episode of The Katie Halper Show,  “If you’re a white person your chance of being murdered every year is 2.5 out of 10,000… If you’re a black person it’s 19.4, so almost eight times higher.

To put this into context, Silver explained, the murder rate for white Americans is similar to the murder rate for people living in Finland, Chile or Israel. The murder rate for black Americans, on the other hand, is similar to the rate found “in developing countries that are war zones even, like Myanmar, or Rwanda, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, places that have vast disorder. To me that stat was so striking that I thought this was a case where even if you kinda zoomed out, that was […]

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