I read some pathetic statistics about black men from Bill's Come On People book. Ya'll are gonna be shaking your head after you read this.


1. Homicide is the #1 cause of death for black men between 15 and 29 years of age and has been for decades.
2. Of the roughly 16,000 homicides in this country each year, more than half are committed by black men. A black man is 7 times more likely to commit a murder than a white man and 6 times more likely to be murdered. Black mothers live with these numbers. I don't know how they sleep at night.
3. 94% of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people.
4. The life expectancy at birth of black men is 69 years compared to 75 years for white men, 80 for white women and 76 for black women.
5. In the past several decades, the suicide rate among young black men has increased more than 100%.
6. In some cities, black males have high school dropout rates of more than 50%.
7. Young black men are twice as likely to be unemployed as white, hispanic and asian men.
8. Although black people make up just 12% of the general population, they make up nearly 44% of the prison population.
9. At any given time, as many as 1 in 4 of all young black men are in the criminal justice system.
10. By the time they reach their mid 30's, 6 out of 10 black high school dropouts have spent time in prison.
11. About 1/3 of the homeless are black men.

I can't believe nobody responded to this. Are ya'll ********? These statistics are serious and they need to be talked about.

I read some pathetic statistics about black men from Bill's Come On People book. Ya'll are gonna be shaking your head after you read this.


1. Homicide is the #1 cause of death for black men between 15 and 29 years of age and has been for decades.
2. Of the roughly 16,000 homicides in this country each year, more than half are committed by black men. A black man is 7 times more likely to commit a murder than a white man and 6 times more likely to be murdered. Black mothers live with these numbers. I don't know how they sleep at night.
3. 94% of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people.
4. The life expectancy at birth of black men is 69 years compared to 75 years for white men, 80 for white women and 76 for black women.
5. In the past several decades, the suicide rate among young black men has increased more than 100%.
6. In some cities, black males have high school dropout rates of more than 50%.
7. Young black men are twice as likely to be unemployed as white, hispanic and asian men.
8. Although black people make up just 12% of the general population, they make up nearly 44% of the prison population.
9. At any given time, as many as 1 in 4 of all young black men are in the criminal justice system.
10. By the time they reach their mid 30's, 6 out of 10 black high school dropouts have spent time in prison.
11. About 1/3 of the homeless are black men.

These stats are pathetic, but on your list, #1 really discusts me! Black men killing each other is out of hand! I am sick of this! Black people claim to love one another, but we really hate each other! Black on black crime shouldn't be happening! we are the only race that don't seem to trust one another! I don't get it, when something goes down, we call the police, we say f*uck the police, but when the police kill or hurt one of our own, we are ready to protest and rally against the police, but it's ok to shoot and kill another brother and the police can't?!

I can't believe nobody responded to this. Are ya'll ********? These statistics are serious and they need to be talked about.
Twenty years ago when Different World was on enrollment at black colleges went up. Now there are more black males involved in the penal system than higher education. So a thing as relatively silly as tv can have an impact upon culture and society. I'm out of it with eatching current tv, but what current show has any kind of black male role models being depicted as being about something and getting somewhere - all I can think of Everbody Hates Chris which is set in the 80s and is on what is considered a cut rate network.

I've been watching an old tv series on DVD called Ironside. One of the characters was an African American ex-con who was the bodyguard of the main character. In the show when he's not out helping the police fight crime they show him going to night school and eventually going to law school and passing the bar exam. In a lot of the episodes on the dvd you see him sitting in the scene doing his HW while the cop characters are doing their detective work. By the end of the series he was an attorney. Dude was basically a 'boy' for the police chief and wore the same clothes in multiple episodes but was clean, well groomed, showed both street smarts and book sense and wasn't treated like an idiot who couldn't put two sentences together. In one episode it is said that he was paid $20 a week. Designing Women was another show with a black male character who went from being an ex-con to going to college and then law school.

What kind of potrayals are there in the current shows? You may see characters who have $$$, but it seems like they don't show how these characters sacrificed and worked their way up from class to class creating the illusion that they just 'got it like that'. TV in general now seems to glamorize wealth, fast money, an acquisitive mindset and excessive creature comforts.

I read some pathetic statistics about black men from Bill's Come On People book. Ya'll are gonna be shaking your head after you read this.


1. Homicide is the #1 cause of death for black men between 15 and 29 years of age and has been for decades.
2. Of the roughly 16,000 homicides in this country each year, more than half are committed by black men. A black man is 7 times more likely to commit a murder than a white man and 6 times more likely to be murdered. Black mothers live with these numbers. I don't know how they sleep at night.
3. 94% of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people.
4. The life expectancy at birth of black men is 69 years compared to 75 years for white men, 80 for white women and 76 for black women.
5. In the past several decades, the suicide rate among young black men has increased more than 100%.
6. In some cities, black males have high school dropout rates of more than 50%.
7. Young black men are twice as likely to be unemployed as white, hispanic and asian men.
8. Although black people make up just 12% of the general population, they make up nearly 44% of the prison population.
9. At any given time, as many as 1 in 4 of all young black men are in the criminal justice system.
10. By the time they reach their mid 30's, 6 out of 10 black high school dropouts have spent time in prison.
11. About 1/3 of the homeless are black men.
Wow... That's sad! :eek:

JamesAnthony you're right. Black tv shows nowadays are trash and BET network is trash. So many ignorant young black men today think the only way they can make it outta the hood is selling drugs, rapping, going to the NBA and NFL. So pathetic.

JamesAnthony you're right. Black tv shows nowadays are trash and BET network is trash. So many ignorant young black men today think the only way they can make it outta the hood is selling drugs, rapping, going to the NBA and NFL. So pathetic.


Black men need to realize the value of education. I cannot stand BET because of the movies that they show. They are always show shoot em up, drug dealing, hootchie baby mama movies like Baby Boy and Menace to Society. I'm glad that my son watches Disney Channel and Nickeoldeon. He's 13 years old but so what. I'm glad he is not watching the ignorant shows that BET plays. The Suite life of Zack and Cody, Hannah Montana, Zoey and Drake and Josh are shows that I do not have to worry about teaching him to cuss out women, deal drugs and talk slang.