Black-on-Black Amnesia

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Last month, CNN contributor Van Jones appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and discussed the murder rates of young black males across the United States.

Maher remarked, “We do know that, for young black men, gun homicides are the leading cause of death. And … that leading cause outstrips the next 15 causes combined … Also, black men ages 18 to 25 die from gun homicides at a rate nearly 19 times that of white young…