Recasting The Crisis of Poor Black Men
Chapter eight starts off with some funny yet interesting words from a man by the name of Vance Smith. Smith said "That's retarded to think that . People actually think like that? I mean, people with Ph.D's and shit." People who think that a black man cannot be responsible for their lives are extremely wrong. This book has shown us that these poor black men have plans to improve themselves and have hopes and dreams they just lack the skills and capital to better themselves. They are many things that need to be done before these people can live better lives.
A key one would be a stable labor market with good job training. But the likely hood of that happening is small because the majority of people view this community with the idea of "three strikes and your out." That these people had their chance and chose to cheat and therefore put themselves in the situation that they are in and we should not have to help them. The last main point in the book is that as times change and their situation changes the way researchers and people view that area needs to change with it otherwise they will never be able to get out of the hole that they are in.
Read more about this topic: The Minds Of Marginalized Black Men, Chapter 8
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