With constant fear of police brutality and trending controversies these days, the value of life for black and white Americans is inequitable. Nate Silver, the founder and editor of FiveThirtyEight, has statistics to back this with sickening realities.
On the latest episode of The Katie Halper Show, the statistician explains that “if you’re a white person your chance of being murdered every year is 2.5 out of 10,000… If you’re a black person it’s 19.4, so almost eight times higher.” Silver also goes into explaining that the murder rate for white Americans is similar to the murder rate for people living in Finland, Chile or Israel whereas the murder rate for black Americans, is similar to the rate found “in developing countries that are war zones even, like Myanmar, or Rwanda, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, places that have vast disorder."
He discusses police brutality as well:
You can listen to the entire discussion, here.
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