MATH IS HARD if you’re journalist James Rush of The Independent (UK).

Figures from the Bureau of Justice reveal the startling statistic that the number of black or African American victims of homicide was almost 15 per cent higher than the number of white victims.

While the total number of black or African American victims of homicide stood at 7,380 in 2011 – a rate of 17.3 per 100,000 – the total number of white homicide victims stood at 6,803, a rate of 2.8 per 100,000 residents.

A glance should show that 7,380 is not even ten percent higher than 6,803, let alone fifteen percent higher as the author claims. And this is the first claim regarding statistics in his article, which is titled “Ferguson riots: Nine charts which show what life is like if you’re black in America.” Is there any reason to read further?

This is more helpful: Black And White Homicide Rates: Who’s Killing Whom? “More Blacks kill Whites than the reverse, which strangely is exactly what you don’t hear on TV.”