I had hoped to kick off the weekend with a fun post of some kind, but there is chilling news: the latest study issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that black people are victims of nearly 50% of the murders in this country despite being only 13% of the population.
Around 8,000 of nearly 16,500 murder victims in 2005, or 49 percent, were black Americans, according to the report released by the statistics bureau of the Department of Justice.
Broken down by gender, 6,800 black men were murdered in …