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“Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.” ~ Malcolm X

"The most dangerous creation in the world, in any society, is the man with nothing to lose."

James Baldwin

New study says that little black boys are inferior to little white boys

According to this report, only 12% of black fourth grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38% of white boys, and only 12% of black eighth grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44% of white boys. The report goes on to say that poverty alone does not explain the difference. Poor white boys do just as well as black boys who do not live in poverty, as measured by whether or not they qualify for subsidized school lunches.

The report shows that black boys on average fall behind from their earliest years. Black mothers have a higher infant mortality rate and black children are twice as likely as whites to live in a home where no parent has a job. In high school, African-American boys drop out at nearly twice the rate of white boys, and their SAT  critical reasoning scores are on average 104 points lower.

The analysis of results on the national tests found that math scores in 2009 for black boys were not much different than those for black girls in fourth and eighth grades, but black boys lagged behind Hispanics of both sexes, and they fell behind white boys by at least 30 points, a gap sometimes interpreted as three academic grades.

This report clearly illustrates how society views black boys/black men. These are the challenges that they face, and they must fight against it.