30 years ago today

[Tommy Tainant]

Are things better or worse ?

 

[fncceo]

Live in the now...

 

[SassyIrishLass]

They hold themselves back....them and the dems

 

[IM2]

Live in the now...

He is.

50 years after the Kerner Commission
African Americans are better off in many ways but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality

The year 1968 was a watershed in American history and black America’s ongoing fight for equality. In April of that year, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis and riots broke out in cities around the country. Rising against this tragedy, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawing housing discrimination was signed into law. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a black power salute as they received their medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Arthur Ashe became the first African American to win the U.S. Open singles title, and Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives.

The same year, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, better known as the Kerner Commission, delivered a report to President Johnson examining the causes of civil unrest in African American communities. The report named “white racism”—leading to “pervasive discrimination in employment, education and housing”—as the culprit, and the report’s authors called for a commitment to “the realization of common opportunities for all within a single [racially undivided] society.”1 The Kerner Commission report pulled together a comprehensive array of data to assess the specific economic and social inequities confronting African Americans in 1968.

Where do we stand as a society today?

In this brief report, we compare the state of black workers and their families in 1968 with the circumstances of their descendants today, 50 years after the Kerner report was released. We find both good news and bad news. While African Americans are in many ways better off in absolute terms than they were in 1968, they are still disadvantaged in important ways relative to whites. In several important respects, African Americans have actually lost ground relative to whites, and, in a few cases, even relative to African Americans in 1968.

50 years after the Kerner Commission: African Americans are better off in many ways but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality

And then

Stop lying about how this is a thing of the past.

 

[IM2]

They hold themselves back....them and the dems

Yeah, right.

Go cook me some pancakes.

 

[blastoff]

They hold themselves back....them and the dems

Yeah, right.

Go cook me some pancakes.

C’mon, you know that’s your Aunt Jemima’s job. Guess you’re trying to set Sassy up so you can then bitch about a racist white woman taking a job away form a colored girl.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

They hold themselves back....them and the dems

Yeah, right.

Go cook me some pancakes.

Get off your welfare ass and cook your own

 

[IM2]

They hold themselves back....them and the dems

Yeah, right.

Go cook me some pancakes.

C’mon, you know that’s your Aunt Jemima’s job. Guess you’re trying to set Sassy up so you can then bitch about a racist white woman taking a job away form a colored girl.

 

[Moonglow]

Are things better or worse ?

Yes, rappers don't feel the need to wear big clocks for necklaces...

 

[IM2]

They hold themselves back....them and the dems

Yeah, right.

Go cook me some pancakes.

Get off your welfare ass and cook your own

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