The Most Dangerous Place

There has been a lot of talk recently about the billboard that went up (and then quickly down) in Soho. One of the best comments I've read came from one of the readers at Sociological Images

Bea Strike 2:03 pm on February 28, 2011 | # | Reply

Interesting.

I’d think the most dangerous place for an African American child would be in in our nation’s inner cities and small towns in which their parents are under and unemployed so the children are subsequently undernourished and mal-nutritioned, under-educated, and poorly housed while suffering health neglect that ultimately leads to, among other things, unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.

I’d think the most dangerous place for an African American child is a state that is hostile to their equal human rights but wants to use the specific tragedies and travesties of African American history to distort and distract from that fact.

But, that’s what I get for thinking.