10 worst states for black people

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@Domingo Halliburton is in PA too, don't know if he's black though :patrice:
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I am from there. Now I am between PA and NJ for my job. I've been to Philly and Pittsburgh quite a bit and I don't really see much of a difference between them and most other northeast cities. Western PA can be a quite bit more rural than the east (well actually a lot of the state can be rural outside of the cities) so I could definitely see the cops in Pittsburgh being a bunch of redneck morons but to be honest I don't know.

5. Pennsylvania
> Pct. residents black: 11.0%
> Black homeownership rate: 43.1% (14th highest)
> Black incarceration rate: 3,269 per 100,000 people (10th highest)
> Black unemployment rate: 14.4% (15th highest)
> Unemployment rate, all people: 7.5% (20th highest)

While some 28% of Pennsylvania’s black population did not have health insurance last year, only 8.5% of the white population did not, a difference of 20 percentage points. Also, as in the majority of the states on this list, African-American children faced larger obstacles to opportunities than their white classmates — much more than black children faced nationwide. Geographical segregation may partly explain the discrepancy in educational outcomes. A number of Pennsylvania cities, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, were identified in a recent analysis by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research as among the nation’s 20 most racially-segregated cities. In addition, black state residents were nearly nine times more likely than their white peers to go to prison, a larger incarceration rate gap than the vast majority of states.
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I was born in Harrisburg and they are right about the segregation. The town is right beside a river and all the black people live on the east shore in Harrisburg and all the white people live on the west shore (people from there even call it the "white shore"). The guy who was mayor for like 30 years really fukked the city over. They wasted hundreds of millions on this incinerator and the city was taken under receivership. This has only exacerbated poverty as the city is broke and can't pay for anything.
 
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Domingo Halliburton said:
I am from there. Now I am between PA and NJ for my job. I've been to Philly and Pittsburgh quite a bit and I don't really see much of a difference between them and most other northeast cities. Western PA can be a quite bit more rural than the east (well actually a lot of the state can be rural outside of the cities) so I could definitely see the cops in Pittsburgh being a bunch of redneck morons but to be honest I don't know.



I was born in Harrisburg and they are right about the segregation. The town is right beside a river and all the black people live on the east shore in Harrisburg and all the white people live on the west shore (people from there even call it the "white shore"). The guy who was mayor for like 30 years really fukked the city over. They wasted hundreds of millions on this incinerator and the city was taken under receivership. This has only exacerbated poverty as the city is broke and can't pay for anything.
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ever go to a Harrisburg Senators game at night? the amount of bugs from the river is fukking insane
 
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ever go to a Harrisburg Senators game at night? the amount of bugs from the river is fukking insane
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yeah I have on the island there. They have a new stadium now. I last went when Bryce Harper was in the minors. You are right about the bugs. I think the new stadium kind of corrected the issue though I could be wrong. I just know last time I went I don't remember the bugs being a problem. When's the last time you went?
 
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yeah I have on the island there. They have a new stadium now. I last went when Bryce Harper was in the minors. You are right about the bugs. I think the new stadium kind of corrected the issue though I could be wrong. I just know last time I went I don't remember the bugs being a problem. When's the last time you went?
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i went like 14 years ago haha
 
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ever go to a Harrisburg Senators game at night? the amount of bugs from the river is fukking insane
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Bruh its fukking aggravating man. MY hometown is like 20 mins from Harrisburg. The bugs are still annoying.


I was born in Harrisburg and they are right about the segregation. The town is right beside a river and all the black people live on the east shore in Harrisburg and all the white people live on the west shore (people from there even call it the "white shore"). The guy who was mayor for like 30 years really fukked the city over. They wasted hundreds of millions on this incinerator and the city was taken under receivership. This has only exacerbated poverty as the city is broke and can't pay for anything.
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All facts about the shore. I grew up in York. That incinerator shyt was crazy, they fought and fought to get that shyt and now its not doing shyt. The only good thing about Harrisburg now is 2nd street. Funny enough, when I was growing up people would always say how bad the city was, but now people are saying the same shyt about York. :mjcry:
 
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Rhode Island? :dwillhuh:


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I know. Though, RI is wack overall but I would not list it that poorly. But it does not have many black people outside of Providence so of course this list will rank it low. I think Root is better.

Wisconsin

So bad it should get ranked twice, the state of Wisconsin incarcerates black people at the highest rate in the country—13 percent. Within the state, 49 percent of black men under 30 have already been incarcerated, mostly because of its mandatory-minimum-sentencing drug laws, overall hostility toward drug users (prison is often preferred over treatment) and “driving while poor,” aka having a suspended license because of unpaid fines. Other problems with Wisconsin include its punitive voter-ID law, which disproportionately affects African Americans, and its education of black kids—boy, is it bad at education.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation put out a report this year ranking Wisconsin as the worst place to raise black children. (It beat out Mississippi, which was the second-worst place.) The foundation gave Wisconsin a score of 238 out of 1,000 for “its ability to prepare black children for educational and financial success.” The national average score was 345, with Hawaii receiving the highest score, 583. Adding insult to injury, Wisconsin was ranked 10th overall in preparing white children for success.

And its largest city, Milwaukee, is among the most segregated cities in the United States.

Ohio

Thank goodness they have LeBron, because Ohio is having a rough time otherwise. The Buckeye State is home to the second-highest infant mortality rate in the country. The median black household income is a horrid $26,039 (pdf), compared with $45,400 for white Ohioans. (The national median income for black households is not awesome but better than Ohio at $33,321.) Cleveland ranks in the top 10 most segregated cites. Ohio is also No. 6 on the list of worst places to raise black children. Oh, and the voter suppression: Ohio has run into myriad voting snafus affecting the black vote, going back to the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004.

Michigan

Michigan gets on the list for being the third-worst state in which to raise black children; the home of Detroit, America’s No. 1 most segregated city; and for having the highest black unemployment rate in the nation, which clocks in at 16.7 percent. (Michigan’s white unemployment rate is only 5.8 percent.) To go with that miserable rate, Michigan also has thelowest rate of approval (23 percent) for jobless benefits.

Iowa

If you’re black and into marijuana, avoid Iowa. The state arrests blacks at a rate eight times higher than whites for marijuana possession, despite the rate of drug usage between blacks and whites being about the same. For years, Iowa also held the title for locking up black people at a higher rate than any other state (it recently lost that crown to Wisconsin). While other states have large prison populations, what makes Iowa stand out is that it’s a relatively small state with a small population. In fact, its black population is only about 3 percent. Adding insult to injury, the poverty rate among African Americans in Iowa is 31 percent, compared with 11 percent for white Iowans.

Mississippi

As the second-worst place to raise a black child in America, Mississippi has a lot of other issues to go with that dishonor. It has the unfortunate distinction of having the highest infant mortality ratein the country—nearly 10 deaths for every 1,000 births, beating out also-high neighbors Louisiana and Alabama. But why is it so high? Probably because the numbers are heavily skewed by the black birth mortality rate, which is 13.8 per 1,000 births, with 40 percent of all infants in Mississippi being born to black women. One of the poorest states in the nation, Mississippi also has a high black unemployment rate (13.9 percent) and the worst unemployment benefits (a paltry average of $194 per week).
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