Black community controls solution
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, of the estimated 10.6 million Blacks under 18 in the U.S., nearly 51 percent are male. In Chicago of the 230,495 Blacks under 18, 50 percent are male. So what is the solution?
The political sector has to step up using what leverage they have in giving money to faith-based organizations for employment opportunities for Black youth said Mr. Nelson. People must push politicians they elect to support their communities and stop continuing to vote for those that do not.
The low-skill, low wage jobs offered, are in the outskirts of the Chicago metro areas with little to no available transportation to those areas. Blacks must have their own businesses and initiate their own business development, said Mr. Nelson.
“So if Carlos Nelson from 79th St. has a business, it’s going to grow on the strength of folks from the community that I’m going to employ. It’s going to grow from banks in the community that I’m going to put my deposits in. We’ve got some strong leaders in our community. If we focus on creating our own in our communities in which we’re able to hire and retain our own, then we dig our own selves out of these holes.”