Why Is There So Much Poverty Among Young Black Adult Males Like Me in Michigan?

Question by Red Barn And Cornfield: Why is there so much poverty among young black adult males like me in Michigan?
Why is there so much poverty among young black adult males like me in Michigan?

For some reason employers here in Michigan don’t want to hire young black males like me, which then leads young black males like me to try to deal drugs or get on Social Security Disability because our moms don’t want to support us cause we grown.

Employers here in Michigan will hire other minorities like Latinos, Asians or Middle Eastern men before they hire us black men.

Why is society so corrupt in Michigan and elsewhere in America when it comes to dealing with young black males like me?

Best answer:

Answer by Kathy
I am black and live in in a city with a lot of poverty too. My brother has been working since he was 16. He realized he had a gift for landscaping and now he owns his own business. You need to find something you’re good at and then try it.

Answer by Nom Nom Nom
Look at the demographics of those in poverty in the United States as a whole… You’ll quickly discover a number of common traits:

1. Trauma/Abuse in childhood.
(Sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional/mental abuse, addiction, abandonment, neglect, exposure to stressful cultures, etc.)

2. Addiction/Alcoholism.

3. Untreated Mental Illness.

It doesn’t matter if it’s Ghetto Black Culture in Detroit or White Trash Culture in the South or Latino Trash Culture in California…

No matter how much money you throw at poverty, no matter if you offer the children in poverty the best education on earth, the odds are staggering that a child raised in an abusive family of origin and culture will end up perpetuating the generational transmission of trauma and continue in poverty.

The person above me is participating in this cycle and his brother, I think he said, started his own landscaping company and escaped the cycle… He is the exception to the rule…

Oprah is the ultimate acception to the rule… She was born and raised in abject poverty, brutally abused, and happened to have been born with the genetics to be able to cope with the horrific stressors and escape. Exceptions to the rule do not negate the “Average”.

Unless we put an Alateen Meeting in every high school…

Unless we stop calling alcoholism/addiction a lifestyle-choice and allowing addicts to scream “HOW DARE YOU! I LOVE MY CHILDREN! I’ve never smoked meth IN FRONT OF THEM so they don’t know what I DO!”

Unless we start to teach the psychology and biology of trauma in schools and get the average person to understand that just because you’re used to the spinning doesn’t mean that being raised in a blender is normal nor healthy…

Unless we start making treatment for physical violence against children, sexual violence against children, having an addict parent, having a mentally ill parent, etc. MANDATORY we’ll never make a dent in the violence and poverty in this country.

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