The killings of innocent black Americans by police are causing enormous trauma to the black American community. When a killing occurs, many black Americans are traumatized by the experience. Eva a fitness instructor explains that she gets sick when the news breaks of murder of unarmed black American by police. She also fears for her life and safety as she imagines that this can happen to her or her friends or relatives. Police shooting of unarmed black Americans is causing real trauma. Also, the killing of unarmed blacks is making families to rethink whether they should have children. Eva fears that her child may face the same situation and fears bringing children to experience the prejudice facing black Americans. This is a very serious issue and murder of innocent blacks is causing a serious mental health issue among the black community. Mental health professionals lack the capacity and skills to handle trauma caused by the innocent killings of black Americans. Mental health professionals should take this issue seriously and develop a framework for handling trauma caused by the killing of unarmed blacks. It is affecting many black families and needs the attention of then mental health profession. Whites do not feel the same traumatic experience when their fellow counterpart is killed by police but for blacks, the killing of an innocent black causes’ real trauma to the black community. It reminds them of the kind of society they live in where the racial minority are prejudiced.
The wealth inequality gap in the US is increasing. The rich are becoming richer while the poor are becoming poorer. This is the current reality of many families in the United States. People of color are hardest hit by inequality gap as they lack wealth, income and opportunities like their white counterparts. A shocking statistic is that the median wealth of white family is 41 times more than the median wealth of black American family. This is huge inequality gap shows how the people of color especially black Americans are disadvantaged in comparison with the whites. The whites are becoming more while the people of color are sinking into poverty. Also, a white American family has 22 times more wealth than a Latino family reflecting the lack of opportunities for upward mobility for people of color. There real barriers which event people of color from growing their wealth. The result of this ever-increasing inequality gap is the stagnation of wages since the 1970s while expenses on healthcare, housing and other basic necessities have increased significantly pushing, many more families of people of color to poverty. As many as 37%perent of blacks and 33% of Latinos have negative wealth. The average American wealth decline per household is 3% percent since the 1980s while for blacks it has reduced by more than half. The top 400 billionaires own more wealth than the entire black Americans and a quatre of the Latino community. There should be public policy aimed at reducing this serious inequality gap as it is affecting the competitiveness of the US economy and will
