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Jason Whitlock wrote a column on the murder of Sean Taylor and the "Black KKK" as Whitlock calls it.

Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long.

When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions.

Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working?

About as well as the attempt to shift attention away from this uniquely African-American crisis by focusing on an "injustice" the white media allegedly perpetrated against Sean Taylor.

While four black men have now been arrested in the murder of Taylor, Memphis is watching the prosecution of four other young black men charged in the the murder of University of Memphis football player, Taylor Bradford. Michael Roy Hollihan writes a moving piece about Taylor's father Jimmie Bradford and his enduring pain over his son's death. (Includes link to video interview with Jimmie Bradford.)

According to a Department of Justice report, blacks make up a grossly disproportionate number of murder victims. 93% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.

Around 8,000 of nearly 16,500 murder victims in 2005, or 49 percent, were black Americans, according to the report released by the statistics bureau of the Department of Justice.

Broken down by gender, 6,800 black men were murdered in 2005, making up more than half the nearly 13,000 male murder victims.

Black women made up 35 percent, or 1,200, of the nearly 3,500 female homicide victims.

Young black men aged between 17 and 29 bore a disproportionately high burden in the grim statistics, making up 51 percent of African-American murder victims.

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Most murder victims -- 93 percent of blacks and 85 percent of whites -- were killed by someone of their own race.

I'm with Whitlock on this one. Why don't we hear more outrage? Why don't we see more action by black leaders to stop the violence?

Tens of thousands protested the Jena 6 prosecutions. Riots broke out in Los Angeles when a black man was beaten by police. Not killed, beaten. A local NAACP president takes offense at an Agatha Christie play being presented at a high school.

But the murder of the approximately 7,440 blacks murdered by other blacks is greeted with deafening silence.

Hat tip to Instapundit.