my friend john clovis has done the analysis in a string of rochester neighborhoods called the crescent. many of our cities and not just big cities anymore have these neighborhoods. these historically troubled, entirely african-american neighborhoods. this stuff doesn't go on in white neighborhoods and almost doesn't go on in hispanic neighborhoods. this is a singular lack american problem. in this crescent of troubled neighborhoods homicide rate for 18 and 19-year-old black men is 520 phosphor 100,000 every year which means if you do long division it means more than one in the one hundred black men are killed almost entirely by gunshot every year. lord those work with kids from these neighborhoods that have gotten caught in boston and she and i, and this goes on in plain sight. it was at john jay and we went off track and started talking about why nobody cares about this stuff. the question is from a black man in a rome, we are dying like flies out there. why is this not an issue with another of black friends and i. quote we are black. we are supposed to die. i can't get anybody to get