The Obscene Suffering of Black Youth | The Firebrand MagazineBlack youths face extraordinary level
The Obscene Suffering of Black Youth | The Firebrand Magazine Black youths face extraordinary levels of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration. Unsurprisingly, this suffering goes untalked about almost everywhere. I write often about poverty, inequality, and other kinds of suffering in the United States. I usually write in general terms about the country as a whole, but it deserves mentioning that this sort of suffering is not at all evenly distributed throughout the population. Some racial groups face much higher levels of economic and social suffering than others, and blacks tend to face some of the most extreme levels of suffering. Here I detail the obscene levels of suffering visited upon black youth in the United States. Read this piece. Neither of the two main candidates for President will be talking about these matters to be sure. No, these statistics are invisible. Best to just talk about some vaguely defined ‘middle class’ that includes everyone except those who’ve taken the worst hit. -- source link
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