the basiks.
  • Homepage
  • About Me
  • Blog Posts
  • Experience
  • Contact

The fight to ensure 67,000 black men don’t go unaccounted for in Georgia

11/23/2019

0 Comments

 

67,000 black men could go unaccounted for in Georgia in 2020 | Yahoo News from Marquise Francis on Vimeo.

ATLANTA, Ga. — There are roughly 1.6 million black men currently living in Georgia and research indicates 67,000 of them are at risk of not being counted in the 2020 census, according to the non-profit Fair Count. This could cost their communities approximately $154 million a year in funding for the next ten years. That’s why former Georgia Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams is taking on a new challenge, through Fair Count, of ensuring hard-to-count populations that include blacks, Hispanics, renters and young men are properly counted during the 2020 U.S. Census.

It’s something Abrams says President Trump and Republicans don’t want to see happen.


​“I think that the Trump administration has intentionally defunded the census and created confusion,” said Abrams. “Because that administration does not respect the whole of what makes America, America. … [That’s why] my responsibility, when it comes to Fair Count, is to ensure that the Trump administration is not allowed to erase people from our state, and not allowed to diminish the importance of Black Men in our communities.”

The Black Men Count initiative under Fair Count is a priority of the organization. It was launched in May with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other black male leaders from across the state of Georgia coming together to acknowledge the challenges of having the proper figures for black male populations. 
“We want to make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself and that black men aren’t under-counted,” said Holder. “Because there’s an effort out there to try to keep us from being counted.”

The census directs billions of dollars in federal funding to states and guides reapportionment and redistricting for the next decade. Proper headcount means communities get the appropriate funding they deserve for the resources they need. Based on the latest census estimates, roughly 20 percent of Georgians live in hard-to-count neighborhoods.

“We're hoping to mobilize black men at the beginning of the year, when the census is actually active and engage them to make sure that they actually turn out and are counted,” said Ed Reed, a Fair Count community organizer who’s responsible for staffing Black Men Count. “I think as much as we can do to educate people the direct impacts in their neighborhoods, in their classroom, in their families, in their homes, I think that will go a long way.”


In the 2010 Census, the black population had the highest undercount rate of any racial and ethnic group. Additionally, black men typically experience higher undercount rates because the family structure varies from family to family. But this doesn’t mean each person cannot be accounted for says Ryan Smith, co-founder and CEO of the Gathering Spot.

“Representation matters. Young people simply don't see their voice in this process,” said Smith. “And so this is an opportunity to have a much larger conversation about telling folks that they do matter, and that ultimately that when we can get them counted, the resources ... will have an impact in their lives.”
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Marquise Francis

    lives by one word: achievement. in anything and everything, achieve.

    Archives

    August 2021
    February 2021
    July 2020
    March 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    August 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    October 2014
    September 2014

    Categories

    All
    2014 Forest Hills Drive
    2015
    2016
    2016 GOP
    2017
    2018
    Accomplish
    Activism
    Adrian Peterson
    A&E Networks
    Africa
    Album Sales
    Apollo Theater
    Atlanta
    Author
    Baltimore Ravens
    Ben Carson
    Birthday
    Black
    Black History Month
    Black Leaders
    Black Lives Matter
    Blackness
    Bobby Shmurda
    Book
    Brandon Bell
    Brooklyn
    Carolina Panthers
    CDC
    Celebration
    Center For Disease Control
    Charlottesville
    Child Abuse
    Civilization
    Civil Rights
    Colin Kaepernick
    Color
    Communication
    Dance
    D.C.
    Dear White People
    Death
    Deli
    Democracy
    Democrats
    Democrats 2016
    Discrimination
    Doctor
    Doer
    Domestic Violence
    Dr. Tom Frieden
    Dry Cleaning
    Earth
    Ebola
    Education
    Empire
    Evil
    Explosion
    Facebook
    Faith
    Ferguson
    Football
    Fox
    Frazier
    Freedom
    Gender
    George Floyd
    Georgia
    Goals
    GOMD
    Gop
    Greg Hardy
    Grow
    Harlem
    Heterosexual
    Hip Hop
    History
    History Channel
    History Now
    Human
    Hysteria
    Icon
    I Have A Dream
    Income
    Instagram
    Interaction
    Issues
    January 19
    J. Cole
    Job
    Jonathan Butler
    Justice
    Kavanaugh
    Killinig
    Layed Off
    Legend
    LGBTQ
    LI
    Liberia
    Love
    Love And Hip Hop
    Lunch Counter
    MAGA
    Make America Great
    Malcolm X
    Martin Luther King. Jr.
    Mature
    Men
    Million Man March
    Minneapoliis
    Minnesota Vikings
    MLK
    MLK Day
    Movie Theater
    Muhammad Ali
    Murder
    Music
    Nathan Mccall
    NBA
    Nbc
    New Jersey
    New Me
    New Year
    New Years
    New York City
    NFL
    North Carolina
    NY
    Outbreak
    Police
    Politics
    Power
    President
    Pulitzer Prize-winning
    Puppy Love
    Queens
    Race
    Racism
    Ray J
    Ray Rice
    Republicans
    Rights
    ROOTS
    Samantha
    Selling Out
    Shmoney Dance
    Silence
    Social Justice
    Society
    Soulja Boy
    Sports
    St. Johns University
    Super Bowl
    Supreme Court
    Surgeon
    Syracuse University
    Teraji B Henson
    Terrance Howard
    Tierra Marie
    Tim Wolfe
    Tragedy
    Trump
    Twitter
    United States Of America
    University
    University Of Missouri
    University Of Missouri Football
    Vh1
    Vimeo
    Vine
    Violence
    Virginia
    Vision Board
    Vlog
    Washigton
    Washington
    White Man
    White Priveledge
    White University
    Wiz Khalifa
    Women
    World
    YouTube

    RSS Feed

© 2015 by Marquise Francis | All Rights Reserved
  • Homepage
  • About Me
  • Blog Posts
  • Experience
  • Contact