Among the hardest hit were blacks. Graham believes education and training are essential tools for overcoming poverty. People living in poverty need the opportunity to increase their skills and education. Studies have shown a correlation between income inequality and increased mortality rates, as well as increased firearm deaths and violent crime, for all economic levels. Poor communities are walled in by violence, so that when the residents fire a gun the bullets richochet inward.
Poverty is about dodging bullets.
And the end result of oppressive poverty and racism is spiritual bankruptcy. We must become pro-active, and stop giving politicians the authority to speak for us in our communities. The black church is the only institution we truly own. Historically the church has done many things in communities that other institutions have not. Education, insurance, and even policing.