[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

According to the "National Vital Statistics Reports" the gap in life-expectancy narrows, as age increases. There's only about one year's difference between the life expectancy of 71 yr. old white and black males. Based on average statistics, Justice Thomas can expect to live for about 12 more years. Given his occupation, the first-class health care he receives, and what's known about his current health; it's likely that he'll live significantly longer than the average.

Check out the tables at the link below (Table 21, starting at page 53) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_04-508.pdf

[pepsi_junkie]

Your statement is better sourced and supported by data but I was about to say that black men die young in disproportionately large numbers (drugs, gangs, etc) and that skews the numbers. It’s like the old idea that life expectancy in the middle ages was 40ish. That’s technically accurate but misleading mostly because so many people didn’t survive childhood. Adults by and large lived well beyond 40 but all the child mortality totally skews the numbers. And so it is with black men.