The CDC has a simple but powerful online search engine that anyone can use to generate a report of the leading causes of death for a given segment of the U.S. population based on demographic criteria and broken down by age group and time period.
I ran a report of the leading causes of death across the entire U.S. black population for the years 2000-2005 and got some alarming answers. This is CDC data, as legit as you can get.
The leading cause of death for blacks in the U.S. between the ages of 15 and 34 is homicide.
The second is "unintentional injury" which is almost always a traffic accident (73% of the time.)
The third leading cause is suicide (ages 15-24) or HIV (ages 25-34).
What an enormous tragedy.
It gets worse.
The number one leading cause of death amongst blacks in the U.S. between the ages of 1 and 14 is "unintentional injury" -- almost always a traffic accident (73% of the time.)
And second leading cause of death amongst U.S. blacks between the ages of 1 and 4, that's right, babies and toddlers, is homicide.
The third leading cause of death amongst blacks in the U.S. between the ages of 5 and 14 is homicide.
What the hell is going on folks?
The numbers for whites in the U.S. are not as alarming but aren't rosy either.
For whites, the number one cause of death for ages 1-44 is "unintentional injury" (traffic accidents mostly.)
Suicide is the number two cause for ages 15-34, and the number three cause for ages 10-14.
Homicide is the number three cause for ages 15-24, the number four cause for ages 1-9, and the number five cause for ages 1-14, and 25-34.
I was curious how our current times compare to years past. So I found another CDC report that shows the leading causes of death in the U.S. between 1900 and 1998.
Here are the top three leading causes of death for some of those years (across the entire population):
1990: 1. heart disease, 2. cancer, and 3. stroke
1980: 1. heart disease, 2. cancer, and 3. stroke
1970: 1. heart disease, 2. cancer, and 3. stroke
1960: 1. heart disease, 2. cancer, and 3. stroke
1950: 1. heart disease, 2. cancer, and 3. stroke
And for none of those years does suicide or homicide show up at all in the top ten causes -- except suicide, which showed up at number 10 in 1980 and rose to number 8 in 1990.
It appears that our minds and souls are becoming sicker than our bodies.
peace,
-Forsyth
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wow. Its really amazing how we have learned to handle our problems. Real eye opening.
ReplyDeleteI don't think people realize the gravity of the situation.
ReplyDeleteThe African American statistics are easily explained. I blame it purely on the black culture of the past decade. You're almost expected to gain material wealth, demand respect (because of your wealth), and if respect is not given, force it. It's all about pride, about how people perceive you on the outside, not the inside. Everything from the music to the clothing even to their way of speaking says "I'm better than you." It's sick and out of control. That's how African Americans are identified nowadays. The major proponent is the music, by far, but whats gonna happen when that fad dies down? My prediction is they'll have no sense of identification. An entire generation is lost to this absurdity and im fearful of what they're going to do when they can't identify with anything. There's a lot more wrong with the culture but I won't go in depth.
Now what happens when a culture like the one I described in the previous paragraph becomes idolized by the youth? You get those death statistics. I can't think anyone who hasn't heard the popular Hip Hop songs on the radio. And I would say about 90% listens to it on a daily basis. What we're seeing is the result of our youth being saturated with nonsense beliefs and a false sense of what is "right" and "just".