"Regarding Black men in America, this racist system don't give a fuck about us!" - Rapper
"To be male, poor, and African-American is to confront on a daily basis a deeply held racism that exists in every social institution. No other demographic group has fared as badly, so persistently and for so long.” - Camille Busette
"Black men in America have faced a far more dire situation than is portrayed by current common socioeconomic statistics; far more dire than the brutal racist murder portraits of George Floyd. Since the end of slavery, from the Reconstruction era to the Post Civil-Rights era up to this present day a period of 157 years, massive numbers of Black men have been repressed, attacked, murdered, marginalized, criminalized, jailed, neglected, excluded, sickened, distressed, and died prematurely." - Kenny Anderson
"Provisional life expectancy estimates from February 2021 suggest that Black men had the greatest decline in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020 (3.0 years). This decline is more than half of a year greater than the next closest groups—Hispanic men (−2.4 years) and Black women (−2.3 years). In 2019, Black men already had the shortest life expectancy of any racial/ethnic and sex group (71.3 years). If this difference holds for the full year, Black men’s life expectancy in 2020 will have dropped to be almost as low as it was in 2000 (68.2 years1). And yet, these findings have not warranted explicit programmatic or policy intervention. Black men’s health and mortality remain hidden in plain sight." - Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Christopher S. Holliday, PhD, MPH, Okechuku K. Enyia, MPH
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