Fat Charlie, you are comparing:
the numbers of blacks killed by blacks and whites killed by whites
With
the percentages of blacks killed by whites and whites killed by blacks.
“Of the 13,455 cases from last year in which the FBI listed a victim's racial information, 7,039 victims – or 52.3 percent – were black. That compares with 5,854 cases – or 43.5 percent – in which the victim was white“
“[W]hites account for 77.1 percent of the overall U.S. population of roughly 321 million, while blacks comprise 13.3 percent.”
There were 15,696 murders reported in 2015, 13,455 where the FBI listed the victim’s race, and about 6,000 where they knew the race of the murderer and the victim, so these numbers are not going to match up.
Are we supposed to demand they always record the race or never?
Taking the percentages from one set of data and applying it to the numbers from another set:
8.6% of 7,039 = 605
15.8% of 5854 = 925
When I talk to English speakers, I call myself Guatemalan. When I talk to Latinos, I call myself “Estadounidense”--dense person from the States (literally “Person from the United States”). Latinos call me “Americano” and English-speakers call me white.
My grandfather is a full-blooded Guatemalan, but was born in California, and never learned Spanish. I am fluent in Spanish, my sister can speak it when she wants to, and my other sister learned French from a high school teacher from Vietnam.
Once I have paid off my credit cards and can pay cash for it, I will visit Guatemala. Maybe I can find some information about my family besides the fact they emigrated a hundred years ago.
I also identify as poor, although I believe there are entire countries that operate on less than the $39,000 that I will be earning in nine months.
I need to figure out how I am supporting myself over the summer…
I am not doing the “smart” thing and having the district withhold money from each paycheck, throw all of it at me at the end of school year, and then running out before school starts back up.
No, I am going to run out before summer starts.
I had planned on stockpiling money in that checking account that I found that pays 5% interest, but I have not been able to stockpile anything.
I pay $395 to rent a 10 x 10 room, $531 in student loan payments, I think $110 to insure two old cars and my life for half a million dollars, and $69.50 for My Precious.
We mentioned overcoming poverty the other day. I started this math and realized that I could not account for the majority of the $2,552 that gets deposited to my checking account every month.
I am going to try to sort out that.
Be righteous to each other!
