A Really Big Thing I Wish Wasn't True About New York City

This Jim Dwyer Times column actually does make the case quite well that New York City actively works to retain its 50% jobless rate for black men of working age-or increase it, I suppose, as the racial disparity in official unemployment increased during the latest recession-and that the City has a system of policies and procedures to not only create success and profit for the white and/or already well-off but also to keep black and/or poor people excluded from opportunity, not only by barring them from avenues of success but by introducing them disproportionately to the criminal justice system.