Interesting story from George Will with important facts and figures:
…in 2006, blacks, who are less than 13 percent of the population, were 37.5 percent of all state and federal prisoners. About one in 33 black men was in prison, compared with one in 79 Hispanic men and one in 205 white men…
In 2005 the black homicide rate was over seven times higher than that of whites and Hispanics combined. … From 1976 to 2005, blacks committed over 52 percent of all murders.