299. Richard Reeves — Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
The Michael Shermer Show
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Black American Children and Black Kids in America
i'm an emigrant from the uc and white. So i've learned a lot through through his experience, including his childhood experience in that neighbourhood. The scale of our failure here is almost incomprehesible. One in four black boys are held back a grade by the end of high school. And then you you just read out the numbers around incarceration rates for black men too. It's literally unconscionable in a country as rich as ours that we should allow that to happen. Second that, as i said, the gap is huge by race. And it's really black kids a who are really the ones wish we most focused on.
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