It's too bad none of us are black celebrities, because what's been pointed out for decades has gone unheard

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The odds that any of these gentlemen are licensed gun owners: zero percent. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country; how’s that working out?

Bill Maher asks why celebrities don't talk about rampant black-on-black inner-city violence

As far back as 2014, in the aftermath of the “mostly peaceful Ferguson riots, the WSJ took note of the black-on-black murder rate:

Homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men, and 90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.

According to the FBI, homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men, who are 10 times more likely than their white counterparts to be murdered. And while you’d never know it watching MSNBC, the police are not to blame. Blacks are just 13% of the population but responsible for a majority of all murders in the U.S., and more than 90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Liberals like to point out that most whites are killed by other whites, too. That’s true but beside the point given that the white crime rate is so much lower than the black rate.

Blacks commit violent crimes at 7 to 10 times the rate that whites do. The fact that their victims tend to be of the same race suggests that young black men in the ghetto live in danger of being shot by each other, not cops. Nor is this a function of “over-policing” certain neighborhoods to juice black arrest rates. Research has long shown that the rate at which blacks are arrested is nearly identical to the rate at which crime victims identify blacks as their assailants. The police are in these communities because that’s where the emergency calls originate, and they spend much of their time trying to stop residents of the same race from harming one another.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pointed this out recently on “Meet the Press” in a debate with sociologist Michael Eric Dyson. “What about the poor black child that is killed by another black child? Why aren’t you protesting that?” Mr. Giuliani asked.

“Those people go to jail,” Mr. Dyson responded. “I do protest it. I’m a minister. They go to jail.”

Mr. Dyson might want to try protesting a little harder. Chicago had 507 murders in 2012, only 26% of which were solved. “To put it another way: About three-quarters of the people who killed someone in Chicago in 2012 have gotten away with murder—so far, at least,” Chicago Magazine noted. Mr. Dyson and others on the left are not oblivious to this black pathology, but they are at pains even to acknowledge it, let alone make it a focus. Instead, liberals spend their time spotlighting white racism, real or imagined, and touting it as an all-purpose explanation for bad black outcomes.

And related, because liberals use their spurious claims of police brutality to deflect attention from the real story of what’s going on in our less desirable neighborhoods,

A majority of liberals polled guessed that, nationwide, the police shoot “over 1,000” unarmed black men each year. In fact, that number was 9 in 2019, and averages about 11 annually.

He noted that education made nearly no difference whatsoever in how black respondents answered—78% of non-college graduates and 76% of college graduates believed police shootings killed more young black men than traffic accidents.

…White (70%) and black (95%) respondents who held the belief that “white Republicans are racist” were the farthest off. Kaufmann noted his findings mirrored a recent survey series conducted by the Skeptic Research center, which showed “very liberal” Americans believed police killed at least 1,000 unarmed black men in 2019—which he called “a likely error of at least an order of magnitude.”

In fact, according to studies, only nine unarmed black men were killed by police in 2019.