Thread: Florida Shooting: 17 Students Shot dead in another Mass Shooting in the U.S
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Old 25-02-2018, 22:45   #181
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Re: Florida Shooting: 17 Students Shot dead in another Mass Shooting in the U.S
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
And according to the US Census, the USA is 73% White, 13% Black/African American.

So if you correlate total population against executions, there would be 3/4 of 23 would be White (around 16), and 1/7 would be Black/African-American (around 3 or 4).
Scarily enough, I made a near identical post yesterday morning.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
It's obviously not about absolute numbers but the chances of being executed in the US are higher if you're black than white as the country is composed of 13% black people and 72% white people.
So, a proportionate number of executions in 2017 would have been more like 17 white (not 13) and 3 black (not 8). We would need to track back over several years to see a full picture.
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