In Henry Louis Gates essay Forty Acres and a gap in Wealth, Henry determines the causes of such inequalities nowadays and tries to provide ways to reduce them. “We can’t afford to wait any longer to address the causes of persistent poverty among black families”, I agree with this statement because we need to start taking action now because once it starts getting out of hand than who is aware of when it’s going to stop. Poverty has increased dramatically over the past decade in the American society, so if people were to say that it’s totally the black people no one cares about them, that’s the matter with our society, it’s all a bunch of people that just cares regarding themselves. It isn’t only black people, which might be residing in poverty,
