Posted on 05/18/2015 9:14:33 AM PDT by Zakeet
Inequality in Baltimore has been thrust into the national spotlight this week, with riots and civil unrest in that city following the funeral of Freddie Gray. This inequality has roots that stretch deep into the past. It's been exasperated by bad policy decisions in the present-day. And it makes itself felt in every aspect of life in the city, from the racial composition of neighborhoods to the number of empty houses standing in them.
For another illustration, let's look at a hypothetical case of two babies born on the same day this year in Baltimore. One is born in Roland Park, a wealthy neighborhood in the north of the city. The other is born just three miles away in Downtown/Seton Hill, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
The Roland Park baby will most likely live to the age of 84, well above the U.S. average of 79. The Seton Hill baby, on the other hand, can expect to die 19 years earlier at the age of 65. That's 14 years below the U.S. average. The average child born this year in Seton Hill will be dead before she can even begin to collect Social Security.
The only thing more astonishing than this 19-year gap in life expectancy is the short distance you have to travel in Baltimore to get from one extreme to another.
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It totally is racism. This is caused by white people not wanting to live in those neighborhoods.
The obvious answer is that we need to throw more money into the war on poverty. /sarc
Tremendous!
I stole you graphic, if you don’t mind.
Excellent!
Excellent!
Baltimore.
Here we have an African-American President appointing an African-American Attorney General to investigate the African-American-lead police force of an African-American city with an African-American mayor. About their racism.
Sorry Christopher nice try but you’re wrong.
It is far more basic than real estate.
The most accurate predictor of longevity and poverty is parents.
A child born of married genetic parents (mother and father) is statistically more likely to live free of poverty and live a average life span.
If you want to get to the truth Christopher check statistics of the households in your two neighborhoods, find out the percentage of two parent household and get back to us.
I am guessing that the percentage of children born to unwed mothers in Seton Hill is greater than 70%.
Personal behavior is the true determinate of life span, not wealth or poverty.
more money for education!(teacher’s unions)
it’s for the chillrun!
Brilliant graphic. Your original? May I steal it?
The real racist party is the Democrats: the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, eugenics, socialism and communism. The Democrat party hates liberty and the middle class - the "petit bourgeoisie". They hate Western Civilization, too, because it is a creation of the middle class.
The Democrats - The Party of Envy and Hate.
Trillions of dollars spent over the decades in the war on poverty and this is what you get, every major and many minor cities are facing the same demise; this is exactly the way democrats want it.
Maybe they should eat more rice. They’ll have to stick to looting boxes of it though since they could strain a muscle carrying those big bags.
Those deaths don’t count,
black lives only matter when killed by the police, not by fellow residents.
Political correctness meets statistical sampling bias. Instead of talking about the male gang banger's life expectency, they want to build an image of poverty, lead poisoning, etc that is completely fictional.
BUMP!
Why are whites still allowed to choose where they live?
Shouldn’t the courts do that?
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