Steve Rattner: Unemployment of Black Men Makes Them Carry Switchblades

‘—because they don’t have a job, or they’re not in school, it leads to a confrontation with the police’

"It's not what causes these kids spine to break, but it causes a culture where you have a lot of people on the streets who are unemployed, who are maybe carrying switchblades, maybe doing this or that because they don't have a job, or they're not in school. It leads to a confrontation with the police, rising tensions. And then stuff happens that shouldn't happen however it happened."

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