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The Way Forward To The Beloved Community In
The Macon Middle Georgia Community
Solutions to the African Education Achievement Gap and Black On Black Crime
by: Thomas Duval D.D.S., M.P.H.
The goal of this article is to inspire a movement that can implement practical solution strategies
to reduce and subsequently eliminate the unutterable elephants in the room epidemic problems
plaguing the
Macon Middle Georgia community. These ubiquitous elephants in the room problems include:
1. Single Parent low-income families
2. Racial income disparity
3. Bad behavior in public schools
4. Education minority achievement gap
5. Black on black violent community crime
6. African American community blight
Nationally no African American (AA) leader has stepped to the forefront to propose a solution
strategy to the unutterable elephants in the room problems that lead to the school to prison
pipeline. The fundamental question becomes; what can the public, private, and religious sectors
in the Middle Georgia community realistically do to reduce and potentially eliminate these
ubiquitous problems; especially the violence in our predominantly African American local
neighborhoods?
Public health has a long history of prescribing prevention as the best solution for epidemics. To
solve an epidemic, one must go upstream to find the source of the problem. To eliminate a
problematic epidemic, public health staff must reduce the incidence of new cases of the problem
or problems. The public health definition of incidence is defined as the proportion of new cases
(numerator) over the defined population (denominator). Public health describes vectors as
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