University of Chicago professor Franklin Cosey-Gay explains social roots of violence, inequality in Black neighborhoods

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Monday, October 19, 2020
University of Chicago professor explains roots of inequality, violence in Black neighborhoods
"Black communities are not violent, they're victims of violence and so what you have is hurt people, hurting people," explains Franklin Cosey-Gay, University of Chicago professor and executive director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Black communities are not violent, they're victims of violence and so what you have is hurt people, hurting people," said Franklin Cosey-Gay professor at the University of Chicago. "People are upset. They're hurting, they're in pain and they want revenge--I'm sorry they don't want revenge, they want justice."

As Executive Director of the Center of Youth Violence Prevention, housed inside the University of Chicago's School of Social Work, Cosey-Gay is an expert on the Black experience in America and how Chicago's predominantly Black neighborhoods have changed over the 20th and 21st century.

ABC 7 Chicago sat down with Cosey-Gay to talk through issues like white supremacy, income inequality, if there is a correlation between wage and violence and are Black neighborhoods are more violent.

For more on Cosey-Gay and the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, visit their website.

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