Black men must fight back against obstacles.(For Brothers Only) From: Ebony | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Mathis, Greg | COPYRIGHT 2007 Johnson Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In recent years, the media, social scientists and other segments of society have had a field day portraying Black men as the "wretched of the earth." The usual statistics used to drive their point home is unemployment rate, our fatherless homes and our incarceration rate. Oddly enough, most of the brilliant analysts fail to correlate the unemployment rate with crime and incarceration and the fatherless homes, not to mention failed substandard education systems.

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