Posted on 04/06/2005 11:52:35 AM PDT by LouAvul
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.
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[[What that freeper said is factually correct. Slavery didn't end four hundred years ago. It started four hundred years ago and ended in 1860, segregation ending in the 1960s. It wasn't something that 'just happened'. Personally I think that in 2005 with the information superhighway and so many opportunities there's not much of an excuse for anyone failing.]]
You are absolutely right, slavery started 400 years ago and ended 150 years ago so there is no excuse for blaming failure on somebody else. There has never better been a better time in this country for anybody to become successful, especially minorities, with all the of the government programs that are available.
I agree that the government has created an atmosphere that fosters black dependence but then again, we all have a "choice" to be dependent or independent. I choose not to be dependent on anybody but myself.
As far as N3WBI3, notice how he likes to racebait and insinuate that peole are racist if they don't agree with him. I beleive that he is from Canada, so that probably explains his guilt.
Wow putting together a bit of whining and then you up and call me a Canadian? Sry to tell you bub, born and raised in the US.
I am not insinuating anything, I am out right saying it! I suspect you're nothing but a racist twit trying to speak softly to get a conservative ear or two. I wont let that subtle racism stand here without answering it..
Speaking of answering things do you care to reply to post 36, or do you want to keep trying say I am not an American?
Oh WOW!!!!! Very revealing stats, if true.
Citing a source would help.
The problem is cyclical, the #1 indicator of violent crime is not race, its family structure. Kids from single parent households are more likely than AA's to commit a violent crime (there is intersection but this is not a sub set relationship).
Why cant 4th graders read? its because a lack of parental involvement in the home this happens because the AA community has been conditioned to believe that the govt will take care of them, and by extension teach their kids.
So we have a set of people who were enslaved, and forbidden to learn for 400 years. We then had the 'equality' of lower standards pushed no them which which told them they needed our help to succeed. Is it any wonder that many turn to drugs / crime to escape, and the govt is there to 'catch' the kids teaching them that life should be 'fair'.
The failure of the AA community is the failure of white liberals..
Most of them near an open-air sewer.
Lack of reparations has really hit them hard.
In the meantime, new imigrants from Africa continue to prosper and assimilate here!
What is an "AA"?
OH, wait. Now I get it.
Nevermind. Apparently, some of us are more easily PC-ed than the rest of us.
Sorry but you are not quite seeing the problem clearly. The problem is simple hate. It's biggotry against whites and being anything like them. I walk in my hood and 1 out of 2 blacks I meet will give me a dirty look. Sometimes even more. And it's because I'm white. If whites are going to be good in school, blacks won't, if whites are going to wear their pants right, blacks won't, if whites are going to marry the women they have sex, blacks won't. Sure, here at work I'm surrounded by the best of blacks that are wonderful citizens, because they don't hate whites. But in my hood, it's a very sad and different story.
AMEN, my sister.
The sooner blacks realize this, the better off they'll be. I find it interesting that blacks of my parents' generation, whose only government program was the GI Bill, seem to have accomplished much more, in the face of defacto and de jure discrimination, than young people today, who have program after program and so many more opportunities and yet accomplish nothing.
If the civil rights "leadership" truly cared for African-Americans, they would focus like a laser beam on this, instead of incessantly whining about government programs and Republicans.
[[The failure of the AA community is the failure of white liberals]]
Yea thats right, it's all whitey's fault. Get lost troll, you have no crediibilty here. I'm officiall done with you now, son.
Um youre the one confusing the hillary clintons of the world with all whites... Whos the troll have fun on whitepower.com...
[[Les Français sont des singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage.]]
The above quote from your profile explains your diseased mind. You are a FROG! hahaha
A tribute to France :)
http://www.angelfire.com/hero/uniformedwarriors/france/fr.html
And I'm sure it is all whitey's fault. The 'culture' that is fostered among African Americans can't possibly have anything to do with it.
You might want to go back and actually read post 45. You're way off the mark calling this guy a troll. It doesn't seem like you got past the first half sentence.
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