Actually, I used to live in the "inner city". I think these numbers indicate the effect that poverty,drugs, and gangs have on the black community. I ain't got the answer of how to fix the life of a man who started f'ing it up before he became a teenager though. Some people start a life of crime and have pretty much ended any chance of anything productive while they are still minors.

Not to mention dropping kids all over town. You shoot yourself in the foot when 40-50% of your income will have to go to the various kids you have created all over the place. I make no excuses for the rates, just that I grew up around it and didn't fall into the trap, but I don't want to be included in that stereotype. I want to stay a part of the 60% of black men that WON'T end up in prison.