Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban
pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain
concentrations of the uneducated, unemployed, underemployed, and
unemployable. Many fail to stay in school and others choose lives
of drugs, violence, and crime. Most do not marry, leading to
single-parent households and children without a father figure. The
cycle repeats itself generation after generation.
It is easy to argue that nothing works, given the policy
failures of the past. For Lewis D. Solomon, fatalism is not
acceptable. A complex and interrelated web of issues plague
inner-city black males: joblessness; the failure of public
education; crime, mass incarceration, and drugs; the collapse of
married, two-parent families; and negative cultural messages.
Rather than abandon the black urban underclass, Solomon presents
strategies and programs to rebuild lives and revitalize America's
inner cities. These approaches are neither government oriented nor
dependent on federal intervention, and they are not futuristic.
Focusing on rehabilitative efforts, Solomon describes workforce
development, prisoner reentry, and the role of nonprofit
organizations. Solomon's strategies focus on the need to improve
the quality of America's workforce through building human capital
at the socioeconomic bottom. The goal is to enable more people to
fend for themselves, thereby weaning them from dependency on public
sector handouts. Solomon shows a path forward for inner-city black
males.
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