Suicide Among Older White Males
by James Buchanan
A recent news article reports “Older white males have the highest suicide rate in the United States, said the Population Reference Bureau in Washington. White males are more than eight times as likely to kill themselves as women of the same age… Suicide experts are unable to pinpoint an exact cause for the higher rate but some believe white males lack the resilience and coping mechanisms that women and other ethnic groups have.”
So White males can’t cope with adversity. The same sort of White males that fought in World War One and World War Two. The same White males who fought in Vietnam when many Blacks chickened out or fragged their officers. The same breed of White males who conquered the wilderness and the Indians and built a great nation in North America. (more…)