15 Baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than North Korea

[EC]

Yes, I know it's the WaPo pulling the blame card, but seriously? How is this even allowed?


By Christopher Ingraham April 30

Dante Washington shown in shadow of his old, semi-blighted neighborhood in east Baltimore, MD on July 17, 2014. He defied the statistics of a 25-year-long research project that was turned into a book "The Long Shadow" which centers on children growing up in poverty -stricken areas of Baltimore. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post)

Inequality in Baltimore has been thrust into the national spotlight this week, with riots and civil unrest in that city following the funeral of Freddie Gray. This inequality has roots that stretch deep into the past. It's been exasperated by bad policy decisions in the present-day. And it makes itself felt in every aspect of life in the city, from the racial composition of neighborhoods to the number of empty houses standing in them.

For another illustration, let's look at a hypothetical case of two babies born on the same day this year in Baltimore. One is born in Roland Park, a wealthy neighborhood in the north of the city. The other is born just three miles away in Downtown/Seton Hill, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

The Roland Park baby will most likely live to the age of 84, well above the U.S. average of 79. The Seton Hill baby, on the other hand, can expect to die 19 years earlier at the age of 65.  That's 14 years below the U.S. average. The average child born this year in Seton Hill will be dead before she can even begin to collect Social Security.

The only thing more astonishing than this 19-year gap in life expectancy is the short distance you have to travel in Baltimore to get from one extreme to another. Below, I've mapped the life expectancies for the city's neighborhoods.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/30/baltimores-poorest-residents-die-20-years-earlier-than-its-richest/

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[alicewonders]

EC asked:

"Yes, I know it's the WaPo pulling the blame card, but seriously? How is this even allowed?"

The ugly truth is that black lives DON'T matter - to the Democrat Party - the only thing that matters to them are black votes.  The party has done a masterful job of convincing blacks and other minority and underprivileged groups that THEY are the only ones that care enough about them to provide them a safety net for when they will "fall through the cracks".

George Bush said it right when he called that the "bigotry of low expectations".  It's so much more effective than actually putting people in chains.

[musiclady]

EC asked:

"Yes, I know it's the WaPo pulling the blame card, but seriously? How is this even allowed?"

The ugly truth is that black lives DON'T matter - to the Democrat Party - the only thing that matters to them are black votes.  The party has done a masterful job of convincing blacks and other minority and underprivileged groups that THEY are the only ones that care enough about them to provide them a safety net for when they will "fall through the cracks".

George Bush said it right when he called that the "bigotry of low expectations".  It's so much more effective than actually putting people in chains.

Precisely right.

The Dems, with their sometimes not so soft bigotry, have run these neighborhoods for decades, and the are reaping what they have sown.

These people don't matter one whit to the Democrat party.  They just want their votes.

Unfortunately, they continue to get them in spite of the bigotry and belittling.

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musiclady wrote above:
[[ These people don't matter one whit to the Democrat party.  They just want their votes.
Unfortunately, they continue to get them in spite of the bigotry and belittling. ]]

And they'll continue to get them, forever.

obama has fundamentally changed the dynamic of "the black vote", perhaps permanently.

There was a time before obama during which at least a small number of blacks could wander off the plantation, and vote Republican.

But no more. Two elections with a black at the top of the ticket have poured a thick coat of tar o'er that baby.

I doubt we'll see a "black Republican vote" greater than 5-7% again.
10% -- that will be a "black landslide".

This is why every dollar spent by Republicans trying to win black votes is a wasted dollar.

As far as the future of the Republican party is concerned, "black lives [really] don't matter".
Nor should they.