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Wilson also argued for an expansion of the current values of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained increased media coverage in the past few years. “We can recognize overall upward achievement trends while also acknowledging that they do not extend to everyone.”

Amanda Konradi, a sociologist and Loyola professor. “What I’ve always found valuable in Wilson’s writing, and this speech, is his persistent examination of the economic variability with racial groups,” said Dr. Lead contamination, home evictions, and the psychological trauma of witnessing someone killed within a child’s own neighborhood, Wilson asserted, are correlated with a lack of personal value on education. Wilson also considered other factors that play a role in the deterioration of America’s inner cities and poor black families. All of these factors, Wilson concluded, contribute to the difficulty of impoverished black children seeing the relationship between education and future employment. Schools higher in poverty tend to also lack adequate supplies and resources for their students in addition to lacking qualified teachers.įewer resources and less guidance result in lower-performing students, making higher-level curriculum unnecessary and unfundable. In his analysis of the typical educational environment that lower-class black children experience in America, Wilson found that schools with many black and Hispanic students typically have a larger population of students experiencing poverty. However, he noted that these programs “were not designed for poor blacks,” thus leading to his “very pessimistic” outlook on the future of the poorly educated black community. Wilson cited affirmative action as the main stimulus for the success of the more affluent side of the black community. These antagonisms, Wilson said, are “products of situations-of economic situations, of political situations, of social situations”-all of which can be connected to the current state of American politics. Racial antagonisms, a clear negative effect on impoverished black communities, seem to have skyrocketed since Trump’s election. However, where upper-class African Americans have seen a vast improvement in their quality of life over the past couple of decades, life for black families on the lower end of the American socioeconomic hierarchy continues to deteriorate rapidly. The annual incomes of affluent black families in America have increased substantially since the age of Martin Luther King-more so than those of affluent white families. In his lecture, Wilson outlined the various peaks and valleys that different socioeconomic groups are experiencing in the twenty-first century and, more specifically, during the Trump Presidency.

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13, William Julius Wilson, sociologist, and professor at Harvard University visited Loyola to give his “Race Relations in the Age of Trump” lecture as part of the Bunting Peace and Justice Speaker Series, which was co-sponsored by Messina, CCSJ, and Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship. The Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation was to reduce Jones’ sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole, which would have been immediately eligible for.On Nov. “After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” Stitt said in a statement. The decision comes after Jones’ sister, Antoinette, and a group of spiritual leaders were unable to meet with the governor on Tuesday in an effort to overturn the execution. On October 27, 2021, Jones was granted a stay of execution which was later overturned by the state attorney general’s office however, on November 18, the same day as his execution, Stitt spared Jones’ life. In 2002, Julius Jones, 40, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death at just 22 years old for the killing of 45-year-old businessman Paul Howell. WHAT DID GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT SAY ABOUT JULIUS JONES?

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