My Art Project

Ok, We have a class project to do in art. The topic of our project is "Death Rate Awareness" which will be focusing on the death rate here in Memphis. While we were figuring out the logistics and critical details for the project, the class ended up having a big discussion of why we should take race (black, white, asian, etc) out of the project. I understood what the student was trying to say, however, I think what she failed to realize is that if you are doing the rate of something no matter what it is that you are going to need statistics and since we are doing the death rate, the statistics are going to state the percentage of what race is dying from what and how many people of that race has died in that city and that year. I don't know if its just me but why does certain people only want to depict the good about everything. I mean seriously. Also the project is emphasizing on the murder in memphis. (I think thats what started the whole race debate.) If people haven't realize that the majority of the people that are being murdered are African Americans. You don't need statistics to tell you that, just watch the news and read the newspaper. But my point is, there is no way you can take race out of this project. How can you get around that?


Death Rate= Statistics= Percentage of how many people of different races are dying from different forms of death.

Can someone please let me know Im not the only one thinking this way