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But riots do not exist in a vacuum. And while the military may be used to create a sense of law and order again, what remains, regardless of whether the military is deployed, are the structural inequalities that sparked the unrest in the first place.
Milwaukee is literally considered "the worst place for African Americans to live" in America
Clarke may place the blame on black people for the rioting, but over the past half-century, it doesn’t seem that the Milwaukee metro area under Clarke’s jurisdiction has given black people any other options.
Segregation remains as stark as ever, as reported by Kenya Downs for National Public Radio's Code Switch blog last year. Black residents make up 57 percent of the city's population, compared to less than 2 percent of nearby suburban counties' populations, according to CNN.
As black Americans fled the south during the Great Migration of the early 20th century, they essentially skipped over Milwaukee, instead choosing Chicago. But when African Americans did come to Milwaukee in the 1960s, its local industrial power was waning, leaving little for the city’s new black arrivals and driving tensions between European immigrants who had long called the city home.
It’s so bad that there’s an old "joke" that the city’s 16th Street Bridge bridged "Africa and Europe," because it connected the black residents in the north side to white residents in the south side.
According to a 2013 report by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the state's rate of incarceration for black men is nearly double the national average (12.8 percent compared with 6.7 percent), and the highest in the country. But in Milwaukee County, which is under Clarke’s jurisdiction, the report showed the incarceration rates at "epidemic levels," in which more than half of black men in the their 30s and 40s have been incarcerated at some point in their lives.
Milwaukee’s black children don’t fare much better. In 2014, four out of five black kids in the state lived in poverty compared with three in 10 white kids. In 2013, the state had the widest achievement gap in the country; in fall 2014, reports showed that Milwaukee Public Schools, one of the most underfunded school systems in the state, failed to meet state expectations. By contrast, all nine districts that exceeded expectations were in higher-income Milwaukee suburbs.
Indeed, Clarke suggests that black people have failed. But by systematically disinvesting in black people over the half-century they’ve been in the area, Milwaukee hasn’t given black people any real opportunity to succeed.
