If that's a little hard to figure out, let me try to translate.  About twice as many whites are murdered by blacks than blacks murdered by whites.  But there are only about one-sixth the number of blacks to do the murdering.  What that means is that, statistically, it's almost 12 times more likely that a black will murder a white than that a white will murder a black.  And what that means is that the Trayvon Martin case is, far from being the Symbol of Violent White Racism Against Black Teenagers that it has been portrayed, more accurately seen as the rare exception. (And even that is counting the half-Hispanic Zimmerman as white, and his self-defense homicide as "murder," both of which I am doing to make every assumption in favor of the media's false narrative).

In other words, while this county does have a problem with interracial murder, it's not that whites are killing blacks.  It's that blacks are killing whites.

I realize how unpleasant a thing that is to say (and, I suspect, a risky thing to say for an academic).  But if we are to have the honest dialogue Mr. Holder says he wants, someone has to start.

Having started, let me say one other thing as well.  The huge majority of murders are intra-racial not inter-racial.  Thus, the other, also largely hushed-up problem in this country is the enormous number of black murder victims killed by other blacks. Again, while blacks are between 12 and 13 percent of the population, they account for almost half the murder victims.  

In other words, there is a national disgrace lurking around the Trayvon Martin story, just nothing like the one the media and liberal politicians are peddling.  The real disgrace is that we too often fail to deploy the ultimate punishment  --  the death penalty  --  when murder victims are black.  And the way to start fixing that disgrace is, not to abolish justice for white victims, but to start giving it far more frequently to black ones.