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To: kabar

The chart on the share of black children segregated is misleading. Since blacks are only 13% of the overall population they can not be integrated to more than that percentage (without them living in all in one place).


19 posted on 06/10/2016 9:37:34 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
Not misleading at all. First, blacks make up a larger share of the population under 18 than the 13% of the total population. Non-Hispanic whites will be less than 50% of those under 18 by 2019. They comprise about 52% of the under 18 population compared to 14% for blacks and 24% for Hispanics.

By 2060 non-Hispanic whites under 18 will be 36% of the population Blacks will be 13% and Hispanics 34%. Minorities will comprise 64% of those under 18.

Since blacks are only 13% of the overall population they can not be integrated to more than that percentage (without them living in all in one place).

Faulty logic. The chart shows that 74% blacks attend schools that are 50% to 100% non-white. 38% attend schools that are 90 to 100% minority. This reflects the fact that blacks live in concentrated de facto segregated areas, by choice or for economic reasons. Generally, the schools are poorer with less talented teachers. The black students come mainly from single parent households. They have a high dropout rate. These combine to make them poorer and more dependent upon government. Their neighborhoods are crime-ridden and there is a lack of jobs. Our cities are tinder boxes waiting to explode.

Being only 14% of the under 18 demographic, you would expect them to be attending schools that reflect their share of the total population, i.e., they would be a minority at most schools. The reality is that they are living in ghettos and are just as segregated as when we had de jure segregation. This is what the data show.

26 posted on 06/10/2016 10:12:38 AM PDT by kabar
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27 posted on 06/10/2016 10:16:04 AM PDT by kabar
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