The Atlantic has an article in its newest issue (not even on the web yet) from folks at the New America Foundation on The State of the Union. I was really interested in their article on tax reform (in a nutshell we should tax in order to both generate revenue AND get individuals to save...hence the installation of a consumption tax along with various other platforms). But while browsing I found an that asks a question I asked a while ago--where are all of the black men? The Black Gender Gap is interesting reading to say the least. Particularly when coupled with a book written by one of my friends at Michigan entitled, The Minds of Marginalized Black Men. Given our economic future I forsee that this book is a harbinger of things to come for white men in rural and suburban areas.
Off to Michigan...and then Berkeley next week. I don't expect to post much. We'll see.
This is a good question Dan. I'm going to answer it, but give me some time. I'm a bit behind the clock and I have to go out of town. If you've got some time in the meantime, check out American Apartheid by Massey and Denton.
Posted by: Lester Spence at January 13, 2004 07:17 PM
Thank you for the link to the Atlantic article. One sentence caught my eye:
Posted by: Daniel Day at January 13, 2004 04:24 PM"Unfortunately, most poor black men lack the singular qualification that made their female counterparts the object of sustained intellection and public money: consumption of taxpayers' dollars in the form of monthly welfare checks."
Poor black men are also consuming plenty of public money through the penal system.
As a white male, I watch this ongoing tragedy and wonder just what is needed to stop it. I'm inclined to put much of the blame on the disgusting phrase popular among young blacks, "acting white" and on black men who abandon the mothers of their children (the latter behavior is, obviously, common among all races). What am I missing here?