Travelled? I was born and raised in the west indies, junior high and high school in harlem, lived down south for 4 yrs, lived in Germany for 2yrs, been to almost every state in the US. spent a month in france, been to England, 2 weeks in Turkey. So fuck your travel statement. Its an alarming rate but its far from genocide. Economic growth is great but that alone will not stop the high crime rate. These crimes are mostly gang related gangs are organized crime. Building an economy and not addressing the gangs will only make things worst. To say black folk are desensitized is ridiculous. They need law enforcement help and its not coming in the right way. Instead of intelligently addressing the gang situation law enforcement are taking a blanket approach of painting everyone in the hoods as a criminal and sort them out after.
There has to be economic leadership, people in the hood are overwhelmed by trying to make it day to day, economically, health and safety wise.
As far as the test of the world you can't lump all the eggs in one basket. There are much more harsher things our brothers outside the US are facing. But you, me and all other black folk who have these discussions should make this question a part of the discussion...what are we doing to help?