Salon.com, the leftist hysteria website, has noticed that black smokers prefer menthol cigarettes. It bases this conclusion, one presumes, on demographic and other statistical data.[ Big Tobacco’s big race play: Philip Morris, the NAACP and the future of menthol cigarettes | The FDA is slow to ban the flavored smokes, despite their myriad health risks, and black groups refuse to speak up, Myron Levin, November 26, 2015]

Why then does the website crucify even leftists such as Richard Cohen for noticing that violent crime is a enervating pathology among blacks, which is proven by demographic and other statistical data?