ID EY PaRlE
JOE LOUIS
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o
t
under the best of circum-
tance t 'adde ocial psycholo-
gi t Jam cGhee, Ph.D.,
re arch director for th
Urb n Le ue,
D.C.
ingly bi a
cial, economic, and health
condition, Blac mal
"Becoming
cies
when they are working; be
incarcerated and executed; kill
or be killed in homicide ; and
end up in mental institutions
for p ycho sand neuro s that
are fatal twice as often as they
are for white .
"It' like all th prob ems
you h ve in ociety come out
in on oup - the BI c male,'
y Oakland University develop­
ment I psychologist I g� Har­
ri on. "The world i a ho tile,
threatening place for Blac men
J ES • 10 SO
•
o
gram
recoveries h
economic p er
nor era d le cy of rim,
ay re earcher . The ap in
incomes bet een whi te males
and Black males h iden d
in the la t 10 year while the
number of Black m n givin
up the j b arch ha cele­
rated ince 1969, a cording to
recent report by the Center
on Budget and Policy Prioritie ,
nonprofit, nonp rtisan group
E EST E. JUST
that analyzes the effect of
the budget on 10 -incom
Americans. oreo er, note
the report, the Blac poverty
rat a 36 percent in 19 3,
the highest in 15 y'ear and
nearly triple that of white .
RE L ISSUE: JO LESS
"But jobl sne is the real
bane of Black men. rite
onitor reporter olleen
Corde. In] 982, rou hly 29
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