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...Keith, a former professor and dean at Dartmouth College, contrasted the achievement level of students at Morehouse, which is the nation's only Black male college, to the "backdrop of near desperation" of most Black American youth...
...want to say the situation is becoming insurmountable, but it may be coming close," said Keith, citing a recent study indicating that one in four Black males commits a criminal act. He also pointed to high homicide rates for Black males in American cities and the disproportionately high number of Black males in the correctional system...
...Keith said that the American correctional system, which often places whites in supervisory positions over predominantly Black prison populations, is "almost like South Africa...
...cannot separate what is happening to Black males from what is happening to Black females, to Black family life, to what will happen to the country," Keith said...
...Keith said that among the main factors affecting Black males today are "a welfare system that perpetuates poverty" and a lack of male role models, as the number of households headed by Black women alone increases. Keith also lamented the lure of easy money that drug dealing holds out to many inner-city youths...