Posted on 11/13/2007 7:25:32 PM PST by RockinRight
Blacks increasingly less certain about racial progress in America
WASHINGTON - Growing numbers of blacks say they’re worse off than five years ago and don’t expect their lives to improve, a study released Tuesday shows. Black pessimism about racial progress in America, according to the study, is the worst it’s been in more than two decades.
The survey by the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based research organization, paints a mixed picture of race relations following Hurricane Katrina and the Jena Six case, in which six black teens were charged with beating a white student at a high school in the town of Jena, La.
It found that just one in five blacks, or 20 percent, said things were better off for blacks compared with five years ago; that is the smallest percentage since 1983, when 20 percent also made that claim. In-between, the percentage of blacks who said things had gotten better had grown, only to drop back to 20 percent.
Another 29 percent of blacks said things had gotten worse as opposed to staying the same, the largest number since 32 percent made that claim in 1990.
In addition, fewer than half of all blacks, or 44 percent, said they expected their prospects to brighten in the future. That’s down from 57 percent in 1986, during the height of the Reagan administration when the Justice Department actively sought to curtail affirmative action in favor of race-neutral policies.
Whites see black gains
Whites have a different view about black progress, according to the survey. Whites were nearly twice as likely as blacks to see black gains in the past five years. A majority of whites polled, or 56 percent, also said they believed prospects for blacks would improve in the future.
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Or...does Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton beat it into them when the GOP is in the White House while telling them how great they're doing when Dems are?
Input from Black Freepers wanted...
“Most African Americans believe the government response to problems is one of benign neglect rather than forceful action.”
Women and minorities hardest hit.
(running away)
It would be very interesting to see what the conditions of Black America were on Jan. 20, 1993, when the good Democrat, Bill Clinton took office after collecting over 90% of the black vote. And then, to contrast what “progress” if any, had been made in the black community by the time Bill and Hill left the White House on Jan. 20, 2001.
Depending on what’s being looked at, the black community does have some problems. But in terms of equality of opportunity, openness of society, enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, etc. Blacks may be better off in the year 2007 than ever before.
The majority of them need to improve themselves.
The depressed (by any measure) black masses need to break free from the democrat party, which has been enslaving them for 180 years. The democrat party even fought a Civil War to keep their slaves, battling the Republicans seeking (then and now) to free blacks.
Simply amazing, isn’t it?
You’ve got to be kidding.
It’s sad, really, that for about 70% of African-Americans, their hatred of anything Bush, anything Republican, blinds them to reality.
Of course things are getting worse. 70% of Blacks don’t have fathers. 12.5% are or have been in the joint.
Jesse doesn’t intend to ever solve the problem of the failure of the Black family. That would put him out of a job. Al is in the same position, as are all of the rest of Black leadership.
Their strategy is similar to that of the Islamofascists, who also never intend to create an economy that transcends poverty for most, which provides them a large, poor, uneducated, easy to manipulate mob.
Suck it up. My in-laws came here in the ‘50s, no English, and learned the language, raised 4 kids, Catholic schools, owned their own business, bought their house cash and became US citizens on July 4, 1976.
They never looked for a hand-out.
Who is keeping them out of the libraries, the tutoring centers, the trade schools, the employment opportunities that allow them to earn and save AS OTHER PEOPLE DO to move them ahead in life?
And don't get me started on all the affirmative action goodies that they can avail themselves of.
It is ludicrous to say that racism is holding anyone back. Not today, in 2007.
Well Jesse and Al have been working overtime to perpetuate this fallacy. Interesting study released today and noted in a WSJ editorial:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010855
Exactly. I’m not saying racism doesn’t exist, because I’ve seen it happen, but you can work around it.
Not every white person is racist. In fact, I’d bet a lower percentage of whites are racist than blacks from what I’ve seen.
My friends who are black are doing very well these days. I’ve noticed however that almost every black to some degree (some more than other) are holding onto the resentment that in generations past their ancestors where held in slavery. They don’t seem to recognize that slavery was worldwide, and the United States (Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party) made a tremendous sacrifice to end slavery.
Why can’t our fellow black Americans of today get over this? Rather than feel victimized by the U.S., shouldn’t they be grateful? Not that my generation can take any credit, but generations before corrected the terrible wrong. So why does this victim mentality still exists today?
Holding resentments has terrible consequences. I believe that if our nation’s black population would stop trying to change the past, and accept the present, there would be a great outpouring of grace, success, happiness, and wholeness come to our troubled black communities.
We must always remind people that the reason that the Democrat Party was founded was to distribute the political spoils system and to extend slavery into the 19th century US territories, and that the GOP was founded to OPPOSE slavery. The 13th amendment forbids the RATS from physically enslaving us, so contempory RATS tax us to death and chip away at our legitimate constitutional liberties as incrementally as they can, while providing a bulwark and safe haven for Cultural Marxists.
I am a black man who regularly engages in discourse with people in my community as to why the DemocRAT Party is the worst political, social, cultural and historical disaster EVER to befall the black community ouside slavery itself. Even after I get them to acknowledge this essential truth, they remain committed to voting RAT.
The staggering level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightning.
My boss, who is black and worth several million, still has this mentality as well. I don’t get it. He could buy everything I own three times over and still be loaded, and he still holds that resentment.
On one hand, I realize that slavery was a horrible evil that cannot be forgotten.
On the other hand, so were a lot of things that happened in Europe way before this continent was settled by the Pilgrims.
And furthermore, nobody alive today in the US has either been a slave, or owned one.
Can’t we get over this stupid subject. Racism is a dead issue.
I went to collage without any financial help. My parents did help me with my books in my freshmen year and that is all they could do. I worked two (and sometimes three) jobs. I had a full schedule and still managed to graduate in the upper percentile of my class.
I drove a cab in the evening, cleaned office buildings late at night and was a bouncer in a local college bar on weekends.
Don’t tell me you can’t do it!!! BS.
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