Poverty rates: there are more whites living below the poverty line in America than there are poor blacks.
We need to be careful when we are talking about a rate (a percentage) and when we are talking about an absolute number.
According to the National Census Bureau, in 2014, some 31 million white people in the US were below the poverty line. Some 11 million African Americans were below the poverty line. So, yes, in absolute terms, there were more white people in poverty. But...
According toe the same source, those 31 million white people were about 12% of the white population. The 11 million African Americans were 26% of the African American population.
So, the poverty *rate* is higher among African Americans - if you're African American, you're more than twice as likely to be in poverty than if you're white in the US.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/incpovhlth/2014/table3.pdf
Then there's the fact that no one in America is starving.
The USDA finds that about 86% of American households were food secure at all times in 2014. "These households had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members."
That means 14% of housholds had some level of food insecurity - "At times during the year, these households were uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food. Food-insecure households include those with low food security and very low food security."
Rates of food insecurity were higher for some groups:
All households with children (19.2 percent),
Households with children under age 6 (19.9 percent),
Households with children headed by a single woman (35.3 percent),
Households with children headed by a single man (21.7 percent),
Black, non-Hispanic households (26.1 percent),
Hispanic households (22.4 percent)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food...curity-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx
Heck, if poverty rates were really to blame, then why is it a small minority of blacks (young, urban, male) doing the overwhelming majority of the killing?
There are other social factors involved, that transcend race. Whatever the race, men are *far* more likely to be violent criminals than women. In essence, when you put a group under stress, it is the men who lean toward the high risk activities that may lead to violence. This likely has more to do with more broad gender roles than race.
Disenfranchised: I don't know what that means. Blacks vote at higher rates than most populations, last time I checked.
By the US Census Bureau, voting rates for blacks were 2.1 percent higher than whites in the 2012 Presidential election. That was the first (and only) time that lack voting rates were higher than whites in the period of 1996-2012. The cite I found doesn't speak to years before that, but in 1996 blacks were voting at a rate of 7.7% lower than whites. The trend is such that I am not confident that they'd ever been at a higher rate before 2012.
https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-568.pdf
You try solving crimes in an area where "no snitchin" reigns supreme, some time. The "law" can't protect witnesses, money can.
Yes. See the financial sector (filled with white people) as an example of both of these - you'd imagine a lot of folks should have gone up the river for fraud after our last financial crisis, but... no. Closed mouths and money do protect people, clearly.
