By Selwyn Duke

There was a race factor in the death of Tyre Nichols, but it wasn’t “white-supremacist systemic racism.” Rather, when the 29-year-old was killed by five Memphis cops on January 10, he became part of an all-too-common pattern — the phenomenon whereby 92 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks.

What’s more, averred commentator Jason Whitlock (who is black, by the way), the Memphis tragedy and the violence committed by young black males generally mirror each other in another way: They both reflect the culture of fatherlessness/single motherhood that, in particular, plagues the black community. (Seventy-three percent of black children are born out of wedlock.)

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