After years of criticism from the Black community, President Obama has recently set into motion a series of initiatives that will focus on helping to decrease the disproportionate amount of young Black men who are victims to crimes and those who commit them.
The White House amassed data that proves that young men of color regardless of class, are at a greater risk of entering some type of reformatory program, from their youngest years, through college and the early stages of their professional lives.
Black and Hispanic young men are six times more likely to be victims of murder than their white counterparts. Sadly they account for almost half of the country's murder victims each year.
President Obama is ready to take action, forming an initiative creating a collaborative effort between foundations and businesses. People whose help the POTUS is seeking are leaders in their perspective industries. Such leaders are scholar Robert Putnam, a Harvard University professor, Thomas Donohue, the chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, former basketball star and businessman.
President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum establishing the My Brother's Keeper Task Force to help determine which public and private efforts are working, how the Federal government can support those efforts, and how we can get more people involved in those efforts across the board.
With the recent murders of young, innocent, Black teenage boys such as Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, this initiative will help to shield our youth from laws such as Stand Your Ground-which can be misinterpreted, overused and perverted-lopsidedly distorting the law in favor of whites.
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