Justice
The Astounding Odds That You'll Be Shot if You're a Black Man in Oakland
Over the past decade, the number of African American men killed nearly matched the number who graduated from high schools ready to attend university.
The San Francisco Chronicle is in the midst of a three-part series, the last of which will run this Sunday, built around a terribly sobering statistic about what it's like to grow up a black male across the bay in Oakland:
To be more specific, in the past 10 years, 787 black men and boys in the city have been a victim of a homicide (out of 1,197 total Oakland homicides in that time). During the same stretch, only 802 young black men graduated from high school meeting the requirements to attend a California State University or University of California school.