If Black Lives Matter, Blacks Need To Stop Killing Each Other

From The Return of Kings:

The biggest violent threat to African-American communities is neither the “white” police (for example, the Baltimore officer allegedly most responsible for Freddie Gray’s death was black) nor white people in general. It is blacks themselves. Of all the blacks killed in the United States over the last 35 years, only a fraction have been killed by law enforcement and a small minority by the broader white population.

The numbers may be “large” for these two categories of white-on-black crime (America has 320 million inhabitants) but they are spectacularly dwarfed by the rate at which blacks will shoot, stab, and otherwise maim each other.

93% of murdered blacks between 1980 and 2008 were murdered by fellow blacks. More recently, the proportion was 91%.

Here's a stunning stat. About 12% of the US population is Black. Assuming a 50-50 split, approximately 6% are black males. About 1/3 of that population is under the age of 30. So roughly 2% of the total US population is responsible for 93% of the blacks murdered between 1980 and 2008.