Black Culture Is Not the Problem
The
problem is not black culture. It is policy and politics, the very
things that bind together the history of Ferguson and Baltimore and, for
that matter, the rest of America.
Specifically,
the problem rests on the continued profitability of racism. Freddie
Gray’s exposure to lead paint as a child, his suspected participation in
the drug trade, and the relative confinement of black unrest to black
communities during this week’s riot are all features of a city and a
country that still segregate people along racial lines, to the financial
enrichment of landlords, corner store merchants and other vendors
selling second-rate goods.
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