Why Young Black Men Are Endangered

LOS ANGELES--New studies by researchers from Columbia, Princeton and Harvard again found that young blacks in their 20s and 30s are more likely to be jobless, tossed in jail, join gangs, father children out of wedlock, kill other young blacks and pillage their communities in far higher numbers than young white or Hispanic men.

The dangling question that the researchers did not satisfactorily answer is why so many young black men have become endangered in America, and just as important, what can be done to reverse it. Discrimination, racial profiling, failing public schools and broken homes are the easy answers that the researchers fingered to explain the crisis. Democrats, for their part, pound President
Bush and say that his fiscal and economic policies have resulted in the loss of millions of jobs during his years in office. His slash-and-burn of job training programs and dearth of tax incentives for the working poor have certainly helped fuel the crisis.


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