Economist and Philadelphia native Walter Williams
has estimated that 262,621 blacks were murdered by other blacks between 1976 and 2011.
He notes that about 7,000 blacks are murdered annually — this means that more than 50 percent of murder victims are black with blacks making up just 13 percent of the population. He points out that 94 percent of the time the killers are other blacks.
In comparison, Williams says that between the years 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks were lynched at the hands of whites and that black war casualties from the Korean War (3,075), Vietnam War (7,243) and all wars since 1980 (8,197) come to 18,515.