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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums1.5 Million Missing Black Men
In New York, almost 120,000 black men between the ages of 25 and 54 are missing from everyday life. In Chicago, 45,000 are, and more than 30,000 are missing in Philadelphia. Across the South from North Charleston, S.C., through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi and up into Ferguson, Mo. hundreds of thousands more are missing.
They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars. Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million, according to an Upshot analysis. For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity.
African-American men have long been more likely to be locked up and more likely to die young, but the scale of the combined toll is nonetheless jarring. It is a measure of the deep disparities that continue to afflict black men disparities being debated after a recent spate of killings by the police and the gender gap is itself a further cause of social ills, leaving many communities without enough men to be fathers and husbands.
Perhaps the starkest description of the situation is this: More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 years old have disappeared from daily life.
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more: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html
They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars. Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million, according to an Upshot analysis. For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity.
African-American men have long been more likely to be locked up and more likely to die young, but the scale of the combined toll is nonetheless jarring. It is a measure of the deep disparities that continue to afflict black men disparities being debated after a recent spate of killings by the police and the gender gap is itself a further cause of social ills, leaving many communities without enough men to be fathers and husbands.
Perhaps the starkest description of the situation is this: More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 years old have disappeared from daily life.
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1.5 Million Missing Black Men (Original Post)
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2015
OP
A variant is "eom" after the subject -- end of message, meaning the subject line is all there is. NT
Jim Lane
Apr 2015
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Trillo
(9,154 posts)1. What a travesty. NT
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)2. Yeah it's horrible. Why does everyone keep saying "nt"?
Trillo
(9,154 posts)3. It means "no topic" in the message body.
This is the message body.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)4. Oh...today I learned NT
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,850 posts)6. I thought it ment 'no text' in the 'message text' box... nt
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)7. hmm no text, that makes sense...nt
brush
(53,778 posts)11. "No text" is correct. Saves you from clicking on an empty text box. nt
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)12. A variant is "eom" after the subject -- end of message, meaning the subject line is all there is. NT
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)5. Systematic persecution by "law enforcement", lack of economic opportunity, institutionalized racism
declining quality and availability of public education, stagnant wages...
What more do you need to know?
If African-American men had legal, economic, and political representation to challenge the day-to-day instances of mistreatment that other races avoid by simply *not* being Black, things would literally be all good in tha hood.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)8. Yeah. What you said.
Plus the prison industry and government agencies that profit by preying on the black community.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)9. I ran out of words to even mention that. Thanks.
eom
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)10. Yeah, it's pretty much the definition of a societal clusterfuck.
When right-wingers claim America is "equal-opportunity" all I can do is laugh.