Avoid fragile communities

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A new study by the Center for Advancing Opportunity (CAO) and Gallup finds that 33% of residents in America's fragile communities -- defined as areas with concentrated poverty and limited access to educational and economic opportunities -- say they know "some" or "a lot of" people who were unfairly sent to jail. That figure rises to 50% among blacks in fragile communities, vs. 17% of whites and 28% of Hispanics. Among the total U.S. population, 18% say they know some or a lot of people who were unfairly sent to jail, similar to the figure among whites in fragile communities.

Even white people, they say. We need a standard color for these 'fragile' districts. Let us call them purple, an odd color which will not offend anyone, except purple people. Purple perps, they are.