Every minority, specifically blacks, grows up without a father figure.
Black people tend to carry guns and use them to rob and kill.
There are more stigmas that continues like blacks are aggressive and violent. Blacks are uneducated since they use "slang". The list continues. However, this all happened due to social media, movies, television shows, and more outlets that gains mass' attention exaggerating what an urbanized neighborhood in poverty looks like. I am not stating that there are not SOME minorities that fully represent these stigmas, but to label all blacks like this is absurd. How can a person expect to escape this urban poverty if society mock us, and label us that separate us from rest of society. As someone that grew up in urban poverty, I completely understand why someone might lose hope when living in these conditions because it is not easy. Urban poverty consists of :"crime rates [that] are high and many homes [that] sit dilapidated and abandoned". Urban poverty isn't an issue that can easily be fixed, but there are high concerns about the progression of it. For example," Why have the black poor remained centralized over this period despite growing decentralization of the poor more generally?" "What are the consequences of these increasingly isolated pockets of deep black poverty in Urban America?" When it comes down to it, blacks are in a system of struggle. It became to a point where in our own neighborhoods, we are against each other. We have gangs that separate us. We are willing to kill each other, our own kind, because of these gangs. How can anyone take our culture seriously if we have hatred and animosity towards ourselves?
Cops are not that active in the community now in these dangerous neighborhoods since they are trying to protect themselves. In these urban neighborhoods, the rate of gang violence has sky rocketed. “In the past five years we’ve seen an 8 percent increase in number of gangs, an 11 percent increase in members and a 23 percent increase in gang-related homicides.” declared James Howell, member of the National Gang Center. Not all blacks fit these descriptions. It is possible for a minority to escape these heinous conditions and flourish in society. However, it is unlikely. But it is because we need more help changing the environment that we live in.
The government needs to be way more active and involved in helping these urban neighborhoods. The police need to be more active in solving these crimes, and preventing more from occurring. The people themselves living in these conditions also plays a role on the way how people views us, and the help we receive. It is a mentality of having "lack of hope" due to these conditions. Not having clothes, not having decent quality food, not living in quality housing, not having any support, and more all starts to accumulate causing minorities to feel like violence and aggression is the outlet. However, that is not the answer. If we start to address this civic issue of urban poverty, then everything around the community starts changing as well.
One thing that will change if we focus on urban poverty is the quality of education. For example, " Blacks from low-income families have worse academic outcomes—test scores and graduation rates, for example—than similarly low-income whites." This is completely unacceptable. There should be no way one demographic should be performing less due to income. Education is valuable, and can impact a person's future. So, the fact that these black students are not performing, and there has not been a significant change to fix this troublesome. I realize that it is not easy to fix this, but more efforts got to be done to make this change. There has been some gain like, "No Child Left Behind law and the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program." However, this is not enough. It is a cycle that will never be broken if we do not address this issue now.
In a different perspective, lets consider the children. A study was conducted evaluating education and the data expressed, "Parents' low educational attainment was shown to predict persistent poverty for their children more consistently than any other factor the study investigated — including single motherhood, family unemployment, young age of parents or living in inner-city neighborhoods." Living in these conditions does not help or improve a minority chance of becoming successful. Instead, their future are being drained down the toilet.
Therefore, in order to fix this problem of urban poverty, we need more interactions between the police and government to help mollify the amount of crimes and help implement policies to ameliorate living conditions. Then, the people also got a role in improving these conditions and express that they want change as well so that officials can take them seriously. But, a way of fixing this long dreadful process is education. It might not fix all stigmas, but it will definitely help some come to a dissolution. So lets all come together and try to fix urban poverty!
No one is walking around with their pants that low.
