Report: Blacks Lag Behind Whites in Money, Jobs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blacks lag far behind whites in economic status, health and education and are in danger of "a great backslide" from the gains made since the civil rights movement began, the National Urban League said on Wednesday.

"This year ... almost every indicator available shows that progress for black America is stalling or falling," said Marc Morial, the league's president, at a briefing to release the group's annual Equality Index.

The index found the overall status of blacks in the United States stayed at 73 percent of the status their white counterparts have, virtually unchanged from the 2004 report.

Despite this apparent stability, Morial said, "No one should take that to mean black America has simply stood still in terms of the equality gap. To stand still in today's world is to fall further behind."

The widest disparity for blacks remains economic, where African-Americans have 57 percent of the economic status of whites.

In the area of social justice -- how people are treated by the criminal justice system -- the status of blacks fell to 68 percent from 73 the previous year.

Forty years after the 1965 Voting Rights Act enabled many blacks to vote for the first time, Morial applauded their economic gains but worried about erosion of rights.

He said the black middle class has quadrupled in size, the African-American poverty rate has been cut in half and there are more black doctors, lawyers, business owners and elected officials than ever before.

This is more whining by Morial than anything else. Take a look at the end of the article:

the black middle class has quadrupled in size, the African-American poverty rate has been cut in half and there are more black doctors, lawyers, business owners and elected officials than ever before.

Strides are being made. Is the change instant? Nope. Nothing worth having ever is. Celebrate the progress being made. Work to continue that progress. That's what needs to be done.

Morial hasn't figured that out yet.

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"No Father" = Poorer Outcomes for Kids
Children in homes without fathers have worse outcomes than do children who live in homes with their married biological mother and father. The literature cited below documents the negative effects of fatherlessness in the areas of Education, Child Abuse and Crime.

Education

_ Fatherless Children are twice as likely to drop out of school. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Survey on Child Health. 1993

_ After taking into account race, socioeconomic status, sex, age, and ability, high school students from single parent households were 1.7 times to more likely to drop out than were their corresponding counterparts living with both biological parents. McNeal, Extracurricular Activities and High School Dropouts Sociology of Education. 1995

_ At least 1/3 of children experiencing parental separation demonstrate significant decline in academic performance persisting at least 3 years. Factors Associated with Academic Achievement in Children Following Parental Separation American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 1990

_ A study on 1,700 seventh and ninth grade South Carolina students indicated that children whose parents were divorced had lower grades than their peers whose parents stayed together, even after controlling for parental occupation, education, race, and family size. Smith & Ewin A Journal of Marriage and Divorce 23 (1995): 151-164

_ Children who live with both biological parents are nearly 2-4 times less likely than other children to have been expelled or suspended from school. Remez, A Family Planning Perspectives (January/February 1992).

_ In general, the longer the time spent in a single parent family, the greater the reduction in educational attainment . Fitzgerald, Betlar. Educational Attainment of Children From Single Parent Families: Differences by Exposure, Gender and Race 1988

Child Abuse

_ Premarital pregnancy, out-of-wedlock childbearing, and absent fathers are among the most common predictors of Child abuse Selwyn, Hanson & Noble. Social Aspects of the Battered Baby Syndrome. Child Abuse: Commission and Omission. Eds. Cook& Bowles: Toronto: Butterworths, 1980. 217-220

_ The rate of child abuse in single parent households is 27.3 children per 1000, which is nearly twice the rate of child abuse in two parent households (15.5 children per 1,000) America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. 1997

_ Compared to their peers living with both biological parents, children in single parent homes have:

a 77% greater risk of being physically abused
an 87% greater risk of being harmed by physical neglect
a 165% greater risk of experiencing notable physical neglect
a 74% greater risk of suffering from emotional neglect
an 80% greater risk of suffering serious injury as a result of abuse
overall, a 120% greater risk of being endangered by some type of child abuse
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect: Final Report. 1996

Crime
_ The prevalence of delinquency among children from broken homes is 10-15 % higher than among children from intact homes. School Delinquency and School Commitment. 1995

_ Children born out-of-wedlock are 1.7 times more likely to become an offender and 2.1 times more likely to become a chronic offender if male, 10 times more likely to become a chronic juvenile offender if male and born to an unmarried teen mother. Paternal and Maternal Risk Factors for Later Delinquency. 1997

_ In a study of 1,600 juvenile sex offenders:

Only 27.8% were living with both biological parents
26.1% were living with a biological parent & a step-parent
23.1% were living with their mother only
3.2 % were living with their father only
6.3% were living with a parent & their parent's housemate
15.1% were living with neither parent
Trends in a National Sample of Sexually Abusive Youths. 1996

_ A 1988 study found that the proportion of single-parent households in a community predicts its rate of violent crime and burglary, but the community's poverty level does not. Smith & Jargoura Social Structure and Criminal Victimization. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (Feb 1988)
_ 60 % of men accused of rape and 72 % accused of murder grew up absent their biological father . Cornwell, Dewey et al. Characteristics of Adolescents charged with Homicide (1987); Davidson. Life without Father (Policy Review 1990)

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The Effect of the Decline of Marriage.
As this Report shows, this analysis found that the decline of marriage since the 1960s has been a substantial factor behind the current high levels of child poverty. Specifically, if marriage were restored to 1960s levels:

The number of children living in single-parent homes would be cut by nearly 60 percent. The number of children living in married couple families would increase by almost 11.5 million, and the number residing in single-parent homes would be reduced by a corresponding amount. These 11.5 million children represent 16.2 percent of all children.
Among the 11.5 million added children residing in married-couple homes in this scenario, the poverty rate would fall by 80.4 percent. Some 34.2 percent of these children are now poor and live in single-parent homes. If their parents were married to spouses with matching demographic characteristics, only 6.7 percent of these children would remain poor.
Overall, restoring marriage to 1960 levels would remove more than 3 million children from poverty nationwide. The U.S. child poverty rate would fall by nearly a third, from 15.7 percent to 11.2 percent.
The decline in marriage since the inception of the War on Poverty in the 1960s has clearly contributed to child poverty. Overall, our analysis shows that child poverty would be nearly a third lower today if the traditional two-parent family had not deteriorated over the past three decades.

Background
Before the War on Poverty began in the mid-1960s, traditional husband-wife families comprised the vast majority of families with children. Indeed, over 88 percent of all children resided in a married-couple family, according to data from the 1960 decennial Census of Population and Housing.4 By 2000, this demographic statistic had changed significantly: Around 72 percent of all children lived in married-couple families. In four decades, American family structure changed, and more than a tenth of all children shifted from two-parent to single-parent families.

More at: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/CDA02-04.cfm

What we have here is a amalgamation, or a coming together, if you will, of facts that do not enforce the issues and legacies of paleo-negroes who seek to their own edification, or money, if I may, on the backs of underclass black people.

Mmm, hmmm...

You see, real news can not escape their well-placed filters, or spin, if you will, without endangering the oppression, or victimization, if I may, of their own making under which the socio-political underclass Americans of color continue to labor to this day.

Mmm, hmmm...

This, of course, does not mean that they wish that Americans of darker hues can never rise, or elevate, if you will, to their status of living playa-licious, or ballin', you understand, unless you take the avenues that they themselves undertook to secure positions of authority concocted by their Democrat enablers of lighter complexions, or white rats, if you will.

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They do not want all underclass blacks completely broke, per se, for that will only hamper their liquor store businesses, but only wish them to have enough sustenance to get fat and out of shape and remain angry enough to cast votes for them, after which they scurry back to their deluxe apartments in the sky.

The preceding commentary was presented by Professor Pookie Raheem al-Shabazz Jones. The good professor also wishes to ask the audience if can borrow $5 dollars until next Friday. He forgot his bus pass.

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