The Devaluation of The Black Child in America Will Always Be a Solemn Promise

That needs to be broken

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readMar 16, 2017

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Another study that aims to once again reduce Black people to brutish relics that don’t quite possess the flawless tendencies of their White counterparts has been unleashed for public consumption.

This time — the news is annoyingly familiar because like most studies — about race — the findings don’t hold anything that we haven’t been privy to. But, somehow each year yields recycled fodder that is given the kind of reception that should be reserved for something epically inclined.

According to CNN, the American Psychological Association apparently gathered 950 people for an online exercise that asked them “to rate black men and white men on their weight, height, strength and build.”

Truth be told, these “studies” haven’t really done very much to smoothen the cracks in the war between Whites and Blacks — in fact I will venture to say that they are propelled by a machine that is purposed for the demise of more people of color — who always seem to fail the test that they weren’t even assigned in the first place.

The result of this latest game of White versus Black was just as we all expected.

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