Cheese Sandwich (194 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026541205
1.5 Million Missing Black Men
OMG!!! WHERE DID THEY GO!?!?!? WHY ARE THEY MISSING!?!?!? WHY IS NOTHING BEING DONE!?!?!?!
They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars.
Oh...
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.
Disappeared by their own choice.
KeepItReal (6,394 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
Stop commiting crimes.
nomorenomore08 (12,805 posts)
10. Yeah, it's pretty much the definition of a societal cluster****. When right-wingers claim America is "equal-opportunity" all I can do is laugh.
Let's take a look at numbers...
In 2013 US Census Bureau estimated 45,003,665 African Americans in the United States meaning that 14.1% of the total American population of 316.1 Million is Black. (Includes those who identify as black… (?))
African American women have 30% of all abortions* but according to the 2010 census Black females make up less than 14% of the female population of the United States.
69% of pregnancies among black woman are unintended, compared to 40% of pregnancies among white women and 54% among Hispanics
Eighty-five percent of women having abortions were unmarried*, including 45% who were never married and 29% who were cohabiting
Women who live in either poverty or have low incomes have 69 percent of all abortions*. Just over 60% of African American households live in poverty or have low incomes compared to just 36% of all American households.
According to official estimates from the US Census Bureau the Black male population in the United States was 21.5 Million in 2013. This is 48% of the total Black population compared to Black females who make up 52% of the Black population (23.503 million black women)
Only 17% of Black men have a bachelors degree compared to 30% of ‘all men’.
African American males ages 16 to 64 had a lower participation rate in the labor force (67%) compared to ‘all males’ (80%)
About 6% of working-age (18-64yrs old) Black men are currently in state or federal prison, or in a municipal jail (see chart right). This is three times higher than the 2% of ‘all men’ in the same age group. What’s even more concerning is that approximately 34%* of all working-age Black men who are not incarcerated are ex-offenders compared to 12% of ‘all men’
In 2005 the U.S. Department of Justice ‘Bureau of Justice Statistics’ released a report titled ‘Contacts between Police and the Public: Findings from the 2002 National Survey’. This was a sampling of 80,000 Americans that collected information regarding traffic stops and the circumstances surrounding contact with police. The report found that:
9% of White drivers were stopped
9% of Black drivers were stopped
9% of Hispanic drivers were stopped
However, African Americans, and Hispanics were much less likely to be issued a simple traffic warning from police during these traffic stops and were much more likely to be searched (person or vehicle), handcuffed, and arrested.
Even though the same percentage of Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics were stopped by police (9%), African Americans were:
three times more likely to to be searched (person or vehicle) than Whites
more than three times more likely to be handcuffed
almost three times more likely to be arrested.
According to the US Department of Justice more African Americans have sentences for drug convictions (of more than one year) in state prisons than any other offense. Approximately 122,600 Blacks were under state jurisdiction for drugs accounting for 21.1% of all Black state inmates in December 2009. This is higher than the 17.8% of all inmates incarcerated for drug offenses. Robbery was the cause for the second largest percentage of Black inmates with 18.9%, followed by property crimes which include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and others at 15.2%. Murder convictions were responsible for 14.4% of African Americans in state prisons.
