re: Black women 6 times likelier to be killed than white women

Because black women are in more regular contact with black men, who murder at rates higher than any other demographic in America.

Also, this practice of capitalizing black but not white needs to be called out whenever possible. There is no reason for doing it other than to promote racism.

From the article:

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“As a scholar whose research examines intimate partner violence, I have long known that there were disparities in homicide rates between Black and white women,” Waller, a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research fellow, said in a statement.

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