The social crisis in Black Buffalo will persist, becoming increasingly complex and difficult to solve, until a way is found to put African-Americans to work ar a living wage. The compelling reality is that the futures of blacks and whites are tied together. We have a common destiny. If Black Buffalo is economically weak and in distress, inevitably, White Buffalo and the entire region will suffer. The problems confronting blacks then, must be solved within a metropolitan context.
Job creation is the key.
Without expanding the job base and simultaneously rebuilding neighborhoods, the economic and social crisis will not be stopped. It always has, and it always will. Yet, at the same time, the story of black and white Buffalo is not historically structured and determined. We are not trapped in an iron cage of socioeconomic determinism, where future stories are already foretold. We cannot change the history, but we do not have to be trapped by it, either.