Thursday, October 15, 2009

Charity!

I've decided to encourage people to contribute to the Black Expo. As a white dude, this might seem a little weird and perhaps intrusive to a predominately black event. I've never even been to the Black Expo. But the Black Expo intrigues me because it looks like a great opportunity for blacks and people of other races to join together and look at how America can be better shaped for equality.
It is not a secret that many blacks are disadvantaged at a young age: "The poverty rate of Indiana Black youth, ages 0-17 is 152% greater than the poverty rate of the total youth population in Indiana". This is an appalling statistic - how is America supposed to be equal when people can't even start on equal playing fields? There's tons of more statistics that show that blacks have disadvantages in society. Who's fault this is is unimportant, but what is important is that everybody has an equal opportunity in America and the Black Expo looks like a good opportunity for acquiring information on this.

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