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While the Black community is still overrepresented at 20% in the poverty category, Black people have reached a "new low"overall. This time, "low" is good because, according to the US Census Bureau, the official poverty rate for the Black Population reached a historic low of 17.1 %. The Black Community was the only group to experience a significant change in poverty between 2021 and 2022! (Say what?) For comparison, in 1959, more than half (55.1 %) of the Black population was beyond broke. I've attached the link to the study below. When you have time to review, you may conclude that COVID-19 programs helped the Black Community immensely because one measurement (Supplement Poverty Measure) indicates the poverty rate was as low as 11.3% before the pandemic safety net programs expired. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/black-poverty-rate.html By the way, did you notice the poverty rate for the white population? OMG!!! President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

The solution is even simpler...human beings need to do a better job in taking care of each other. More love. Less greed.😎

Marcus Gilmore is the grandson of Roy Haynes. https://www.4.com/buzz/2020/06/17/marcus-gilmore-and-ghost-note-southern-spirits/

Interestingly, DC crime has never felt as bad at ground zero as it is reported to the outside world. 😁 Of course, there are certain things that you just don't do here but that goes for any city. From a personal security perspective, it's always a good idea to keep your head on a swivel at all times. Otherwise, I've never felt like I'm living in a war zone here in DC.😎

Yep. Americans should be asking themselves why there is poverty at all in the most powerful country on the planet. Of course, it's by design.😎

Bill Moyers recalled from LBJ We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." The land of opportunity myth is one of the great tragedies of the usa. It's always been even when british colonies mostly filled with the impoverished. A 1% ofrom each : whites/women/indigenous/blacsk/males/many more

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