Black Lives Matter

I bet some folks are going to go nuts with the change in the twenty dollar bill.

whites kill whites and blacks kill blacks at substantially the same rate

You better reread your statistics: the fact is that blacks kill blacks and whites kill whites at about the same rate regardless what the total numbers are from each group.

Why are you so dense you can't recognize that?

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a14.htm

During 2007, homicide rates were highest among persons aged 15--34 years, and the overall unadjusted rate for males was approximately 4 times that of females (9.8 versus 2.5 deaths per 100,000 population, respectively) (Table 1). Unadjusted homicide rates were highest among blacks (23.1 deaths per 100,000), followed by AI/ANs (7.8) and Hispanics (7.6), then whites (2.7) and A/PIs (2.4) (Table 1).
Additional analyses by age, race/ethnicity, and sex revealed that black males aged 15--34 years were at greatest risk for death by homicide (Table 2). Based on the available data, black females also had the highest homicide rates compared with females in other racial/ethnic groups within each age category, with the exception of women aged 30--49 years (Table 2). Within this age group, a statistical difference between the rates of black and AI/AN women could not be determined. Both rates were significantly higher than those of white, Hispanic, and A/PI women. (All comparisons were significant at the p<0.05 level.)
During the 9-year study period, trend analyses revealed that the age-adjusted homicide rates increased for blacks and decreased for Hispanics and A/PIs (p<0.05) (Figure). Furthermore, trend analyses revealed that the between-group differences in the modeled age-adjusted homicide rates for blacks versus AI/ANs, blacks versus A/PIs, and blacks versus Hispanics increased over the 9-year period (p<0.05). However, these changes were slight and likely detected because large populations were analyzed. Age-adjusted homicide rates were consistently highest among blacks, ranging from 20.6 to 22.4 deaths per 100,000 persons (Figure). Each year, the rate among blacks was approximately 2--3 times higher than among AI/ANs and Hispanics and at least 5 times higher than A/PIs and whites.
Similar to previous findings, results of this study indicate that homicide disparities by age, race/ethnicity, and sex are evident (2,3,5), and the homicide rate is particularly high among young black males (2,3). Individual factors (e.g., employment status) and socioeconomic factors (e.g., poverty and economic inequality) play critical roles in racial/ethnic disparities in homicide (9). For example, persons of a minority race are more likely than those of other racial/ethnic backgrounds to be unemployed and to live in economically impoverished residential areas; both factors are associated with a higher homicide risk (9).
Among females, blacks had higher homicide rates than other racial/ethnic groups; however, AI/AN women aged 30--49 years also had high rates. These findings indicate heightened risk for females during adulthood, which might be indicative of intimate partner--related homicide. These findings also are consistent with a study that reported high rates of intimate partner-related homicide among black women aged 20--39 years (10) and another study that estimated that one third (30.7%) of AI/AN women aged ≥18 years had been physically assaulted by an intimate partner in their lifetime (11).
Although the 1999--2007 homicide rates were highest among blacks, their rate for 2007 represents a substantial decrease compared with the early 1990s. In 1991, the homicide rate among non-Hispanic blacks peaked at 38 deaths per 100,000 population (1), which was nearly twice the rate reported in 2007. Similar decreases from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s were observed among the other racial/ethnic minorities (1).

Why he can't see that what drives black youth to murder is poverty, marginalization, purposely degraded schools (blacks don't do that: the whites in power do that), lack of opportunity.

Any group subjected to that does exactly the same thing: they predate their own. The Chinese and Vietnamese gangs are doing it now. The Italians did it, the Jewish it, the Irish did it. The difference is that the other groups had a chance to be upwardly mobile. When Black Americans started moving up the Jim Crow laws of the Teens and Twenties occurred and buried the emerging black middle class, by law and violence. Whites initiated race riots all over the US and burned out black populations and forced them to "move on". Its a dirty, dirty history that's been buried in shame but the proof is there.

It happened here in Texas, too. As well as Florida, Oklahoma, California and other states and hundreds of black lives were lost, and very, very few white lives were taken.