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@waltercool Good evidence racism is real and that black women are far more often the victim of murder than whites, thanks.

@freemo Also, white people tend to kill themselves far more than black people.

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No it doesnt say that.

It is showing percentages of the death, not rates... ill try to explain with an exagerated example.

Imagine whites commit suicide 90% of the time and murder 10%... If they have 10 deaths a year then 9 suicide, 1 murder.

Lets say blacks commit suicide 10% of the time but murder 90% of the time... but they have 1000 deaths a year.. that means 900 times their murdered and 100 times they commit suicide.

The black suicide rate here is still almost 10x higher than the white despite having 90% instead of 10%.

I am not saying those are the numbers, i am just pointing out the charts you are showing is **not** saying whaat you think it is saying.

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