>>9771552Inner cities are hell and the result of policies which trapped black Americans.
Think about healthy, stable communities around the world. They have the following common attributes:
1) Opportunities for employment in the community
2) Resilient family structures
3) Good educational systems
4) Good nutrition
5) Strong religious beliefs/social glue
The worst inner cities in the US have none of those.
Imagine being born in an inner city. Your dad either skipped out or is in jail. Your mom has to work at least two part-time jobs just to feed you and your three siblings with shitty food. You grow up poor without religion, so you have basically no shared social support structure and moral code. Growing up, your peers in public school have no respect for learning or the teachers, so your education is a wash. Once you either graduate high school or just drop out, you either have two options: get out of the trap, or stay. If you get out, you might have a shot; that required money and intelligence, two things hard to come by. So you stay. Maybe you work some part-time jobs at the Domino's, but you make just enough to pay rent and buy the drugs you need to drown out the meaninglessness of your existence and utter lack of any useful future.
I know an anomaly, someone who grew up deep in Mexican poverty in a US city but still graduated from a good college with a useful degree. This person, while growing up quite broke, had at least two things a person in Black poverty didn't have: good nutrition and strong religious culture. Not everyone around this person had the same. To the person's knowledge, everyone on the block they grew up with is either addicted to drugs, in jail, or dead.
That example hopefully shows a big difference between Black poverty and other cultures of poverty: the others have something to draw from.
