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At this point, Black people must be the most well-researched, well-studied, and well-documented people on Earth. Yet on balance, very little changes regarding their socioeconomic condition. Indeed, as Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett document in their recent book The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, African Americans are worse off today than in 1968 across many socioeconomic measures of well-being. We write report after report documenting the levels of racial, economic, and social inequalities. We march, vote, and protest to incremental effect. But even in the wake of the heinous police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a too-long list of others, we’ve seen no substantial change.
Even with the concerted, multifaceted national and international civil uprising over the last ten months, Black men and women continue to be gunned down in the streets of America.
Even in the face of a pandemic where the data show Black people are dying from COVID at unprecedented rates, little has changed when it comes to how Black people are treated in our systems.
The problems persist and, in fact, have become deeper and more embedded into the fabric of our community.
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