A better source link: http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/05/ah-yes-guns-as-disease-vector-meme.html

Black men under 35 are just 3.7% of the population of the country, but they provided 30% of the victims of violent homicide in 2006.

Wow.

Racism or poverty?

brightlight4, there is lots of poverty in this world and they are not killing each other. Is it racism? I have no idea how that fits this picture. They are killing each other. Other races are not killing them.

brightlight -- as the clip says: "You want to do something about the number of deaths in this country? ...[S]tart addressing the cultural problems that lead young black men to kill."

I don't think it's racism *or* poverty. It's the culture. There was FAR more racism in the 1950s in this country, but blacks had *nothing* like the problems they have today with crime, out-of-wedlock births, drugs, and homocides.