White male suicide rate could exceed Black male homicide victimisation rate within thirty years

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2. Not suggesting otherwise

nor am I suggesting that this is because of women/feminists or any other external cause. By all indications this is a deep seated cultural problem for white men and it has been for a very long time.

There was a discussion around the issue which was pleasantly substantive. Someone did mention that it smacked of a "league table of suffering" mentality, although everyone readily acknowledged that this was a Sui generis issue and not a commentary on race relations as a whole.

Someone also mentioned that suicide tended to skew towards older white men (highest for 85 plus) whereas homicide was mainly a problem for young black men. So to a large extent the issue was elderly white men electing to go gracefully rather than fight for the last few years. Fair enough, although there is the issue of why women don't feel the need to go gracefully. Someone also suggested that if black men lived as long as white men there might be more elderly suicides, although the life expectancies for white and black men have been converging and so far that hasn't happened.