Murray and Murder

P J O'Rourk has died.

The Durham accusation is serious, but is it deep?

                         
Murray and Murder

In his new book, Charles Murray reviews the database for New York City murders and finds that of the 1,906 blacks killed from 2006-2017, 89 percent were killed by African Americans. Latinos committed 10 percent of these murders, and just 0.6 percent of black homicide victims died at the hands of whites. These figures, Murray writes, are “useful as a counterweight to much of the rhetoric from the Black Lives Matter movement.”

The problem with this kind of logical criticism is that it assumes the sincerity of its opponents.