Posted on 08/30/2014 5:29:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MANY white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves.
Bill O’Reilly of Fox News reflected that weariness, saying: “All you hear is grievance, grievance, grievance, money, money, money.”
Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.
Yes, you read that right!
So let me push back at what I see as smug white delusion. Here are a few reasons race relations deserve more attention, not less:
• The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.)
• The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967.
• A black boy born today in the United States has a life expectancy five years shorter than that of a white boy.
• Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students. They are three times as likely to be suspended and expelled, setting them up for educational failure....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What else do you expect from NYC?
“Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism. Yes, you read that right!”
Why are you so shocked Nicholas? It’s TRUE!
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Ferguson turns protest into political power
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3198925/posts
I could end their “oppression” overnight for free. They only need to drop the fantasy that they’re somehow different and be Americans with the same problems as everyone else and move forward.
I know blacks who have done it and live perfectly happy lives.
That’s right; somehow Asians (often with non-English speaking parents) attend the same schools and flourish.
150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and we’re still hearing this nonsense...
Yes, Kristof, black are the only minorities in the world (rolling eyes)...
But then things changed. Democrats put away the firehoses and they put away the dogs, and they got real friendly with the negro. And it's all been downhill since then. The days of Jim Crow? You may not want to call 'em the Good Old Days, but nowadays ain't so good in comparison.
But you go right on giving 94% of your vote to Democrats. See if that fixes things.
They always say we don’t get it. We get it, we just disagree.
The Thugg brain wash appears to be working..
Black heads are being emptied at a phenomenal rate..
Luv it when they just recite these stats without any context or critcal analysis. Like: maybe there is some problem holding Blacks back that has nothing to do with racism??
Want to live longer? Don’t hit people. We have the right to kill you in self defense.
Want to die?
Hit a cop!
Teach your kids these lessons and they will live longer.
Don’t teach them, and the rest of us will have to take care of the problems that you unleash on the world.
I think “attention” is the operative word. Most of the antics seem to be driven by narcissism, “where’s the camera”, “where’s the microphone?”
Civil rights did not include anything about whites giving up what they worked for to make others equal, it only was about making the opportunities equal as possible.
We have a black president, attorney general, and most government positions are staffed by blacks. That proves the opportunity is there, if you don’t want to work and sacrifice for it, then you have no grievance.
I think these people believe they have a right to rob and assault and kill people or something
Same here. My mom is eligible for land because of her Cherokee heritage. She NEVER took it. Didn’t want a ‘hand out’. Goes against her grain.
We are already inundated with whining about race 24/7/365.
I’ve been brainwashed with this crap for over 40 years. I now I can finally say; free at last, free at last, thank God almighty I am free at last.’
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