The title is actually, "1.5 Million Missing Black Men"
Like six orders of magnitude matters...
I've spotted the physicist.
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#12"The gaps tend to be smallest in the West." Well, except for LA and Oakland. I wonder why the other west coast cities have the opposite trend?
LA and Oakland have higher crime rates than the other cities. Since black men are disproportionately represented in the criminal population, areas with higher crime rates will have higher gaps. Additionally, there are significant gang populations in these areas. Because gangs tend to recruit along racial lines, this further adds to the disparity vs areas with fewer/smaller gangs.
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#13> The black women left behind find that potential partners of the same race are scarce, while men, who face an abundant supply of potential mates, don’t need to compete as hard to find one. As a result, Mr. Charles said, “men seem less likely to commit to romantic relationships, or to work hard to maintain them.”
Interesting, I never thought about this side-effect of mass incarceration. Another aggravating factor in a repeating cycle?
I remember reading a hypothesis of why many middle eastern countries generate so many young angry jihadists is that most of the young men had never had a stable interactions with women in their youth. Most grew up in socially conservative environments and missed out on the stabilizing effect of having relationships with women, not having a sexual output, not having reasons to stay alive for a girl at home, or even missing out on having a female perspective on things (women are arguably less war-prone than men).
Middle eastern young males obviously experience a different social environment than black men do but I'm curious if stable relationships with women really do lead to less violence/crime by males? Or is that merely hopeful thinking by social conservatives?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably excessively naive, but my first guess is some sort of demographic velocity. My expectation is that the gap will be the smallest in the places that have the most mobile populations.
More likely it correlates to gang activity.
I would expect higher rates of gang activity in populations with lower mobility.
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#16> The black women left behind find that potential partners of the same race are scarce, while men, who face an abundant supply of potential mates, don’t need to compete as hard to find one. As a result, Mr. Charles said, “men seem less likely to commit to romantic relationships, or to work hard to maintain them.” Interesting, I never thought about this side-effect of mass incarceration. Another aggravating factor in…
This dynamic has always frightened me about China's "one child" generation coming of age. Instead of a group of disaffected Jihadists, you have a large and influential political force in an increasingly belligerent and powerful nation.
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#17The black women left behind find that potential partners of the same race are scarce,...The imbalance has also forced women to rely on themselves — often alone...
There is a pretty obvious solution to this problem which has been legal since 1967. It works well and the babies come out really cute. Weird how the NYT glosses that over...
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#18> The black women left behind find that potential partners of the same race are scarce, while men, who face an abundant supply of potential mates, don’t need to compete as hard to find one. As a result, Mr. Charles said, “men seem less likely to commit to romantic relationships, or to work hard to maintain them.” Interesting, I never thought about this side-effect of mass incarceration. Another aggravating factor in…
This dynamic has always frightened me about China's "one child" generation coming of age. Instead of a group of disaffected Jihadists, you have a large and influential political force in an increasingly belligerent and powerful nation.
> increasingly belligerent
I'd argue that China's belligerence is lower now than it has been. They've moved from a very communist that strongly distrusted and arguably even hated the West, to a semi-capitalist one who mostly just wants to compete with the West (and makes oodles of $$$ selling to us).
The US has been drum-beating against China a lot recently, but frankly that seems more about the US losing in the "trade wars" than anything specific China did.
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#19Will this have an effect on U.S diversity ? In a way, it may foster more interracial relationships on affected areas
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#20I'm a Black Man. Growing up there was a realization that being alive and out of trouble over the age of 21 was an accomplishment. This would extend to middle class. Due to a history of American apartheid, there were often just a few degrees of separation between middle class and working/poor class kin.