Black crime must stop

Usually I just talk about sports, but today I feel like I need to touch on another subject. As a black male at Prairie View A&M University, I see and hear many things that are extremely disturbing to me.
Seldom do you hear about a white kid coming into a black neighborhood and taking the life of an African-American, in fact you never hear that nowadays.
Everyone has heard the term black-on-black crime, but I don’t think we, as a people, understand how serious that really is.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the per capita black homicide rate is seven times greater than the white plus Hispanic homicide rate.
When it comes to crime and welfare rates, Hispanics count as white. About half the “white” crime rate is actually committed by Latinos.
In raw numbers (not per capita), the whites are 45.8 percent of offenders, but 50.9 percent are victims.
Blacks, meanwhile are, 52.2 percent of offenders and 46.9 percent of victims. Taken together, this suggests the targeting of whites because blacks are more likely to be offenders, but whites to be criminals.
The numbers show that whites killed 86 percent of white victims and 94 percent of black victims were killed by blacks.
Again, we see a disparity toward targeting whites. Almost 20 percent of all crimes committed by strangers is black on white. White on black stranger crime is only about three percent.
In the last few years at Prairie View A&M we have lost many of our fellow Panthers due to all different reasons. Do we really need to be worried about our own race bringing us down?
For the people, male and female, who get upset for someone accidentally stepping on your shoes, grow up and just walk away. Plus, if you’re the man or woman, it shouldn’t be a problem for you to get a new pair, right?
At the end of the day we, as African-Americans, need to come together and stop fighting each other and start working together.
We are the world’s future leaders, and our time is not far away, so be an example and the exception.Jeremy O. Malone