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Please brace yourself because you are about to get an eyeful.
I’m fighting every urge to type this story in all caps. I’m keyed up over the capital case of craziness in our society.
I now know…
It’s a common misconception that if you raise a child in the “right” neighborhood, they will have a better shot at life.
It’s a common misconception that Black communities fall behind because we lack two-parent households.
It’s a common misconception that if Black men only got degrees, then we’d succeed.
Because a new study by researchers at the Census Bureau, Stanford, and Harvard, gives the middle finger to all of that sage counsel.
In a study reflecting the lives of 20 million children born between 1978 and 1983, researchers show how Black boys fare no better in the United States regardless of their household.
Stop and read that again, please. Let it hit you and sink in one more time.
