Absent from that article is any kind of graph or straight-forward comparison. I could only find one for all ages: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Age_adjusted_US_suicide_rate_by_race_1981-2016.png" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/...</a> (note that the x-axis does not start at 0)<p>Some data in tabular form, on suicide rates by race and age-group: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2017.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2017...</a><p>Notably, in that table, the suicide rate for every single gender and age group is significantly higher for whites compared to blacks, for 1999 and 2017.
Since they increased about the same magnitude of that of all others, I'm more inclined to ask why they are still lower than a lot of that of other groups, especially that of 'Non-Hispanic native Indian or Alaska Natives'<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155821/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155821/</a>