My relatives were slaves more recently than theirs and nobody owes me anything. In fact, my great grandmother was a Jewish slave in Poland.......She died a wealthy woman.
The slavery/human rights issues the blacks and their leaders cling to is nothing but an excuse. If things are to improve for "African Americans", THEY need to move on and take responsibility for THEIR actions.
That is all they have to hold onto to explain their massive failures in our society. As long as they can keep saying their failures to advance in this nation are because some great, great grandparent was a slave, they won't have to take responsibility for having the highest, per capita, incarceration rates, murder/assault/serial killing/car jacking/home invasion/rape/ dope usage and sales rates, welfare rates, food stamp rates, section 8 housing rates, HS drop out rates, unwed pregnancy rates, UI rates, poverty rates, etc., etc., etc.
I have another approach that is hard to dismiss. If racism is so bad
why are Asian Americans doing so well?
why are Indian immigrants and their children doing so well?
why are African immigrants doing so well?
Evidently they're not.
The popular discussion of black immigrants often exaggerates their achievements and denigrates U.S.-born
blacks. One regularly hears asked, “Why do black immigrants do better than native blacks?” (Coates 2009). In
these discussions, black immigrants usually are presented as hard working, valuing education, entrepreneurial,
and family-oriented. U.S.-born blacks are often presented as lacking all of these characteristics, and sometimes even
described as carrying “victimhood baggage” (Coates 2009; Marshall 2006). Many such discussions are driven by
anecdotes, and even when these issues are explored using actual data, rarely are comparisons based on more than one
measure; rarer still is there a comparison of how black immigrants fare in comparison with native whites.
This report aims to deepen the public discussion by conducting a broader, more careful examination of the socioeconomic
standing of black immigrants relative to U.S.-born blacks and whites. Its main findings are:
• After taking into account the effect of 15 wage-related characteristics, all black male populations are found to earn
less than similar U.S.-born non-Hispanic white men. U.S.-born black men earn 19.1% less. West Indian men, that
is, black immigrants from English-speaking Caribbean
countries, do slightly worse, earning 20.7% less.
Haitian men and African men do substantially worse
than U.S.-born black men. Haitian men earn 33.8%
less, and African men earn 34.7% less than similar
native white men.
• All groups of black women have lower weekly wages
than similar U.S.-born non-Hispanic white women,
but the size of the wage gaps is smaller for women
than it is for men. West Indian women do somewhat
better than U.S.-born black women. West Indian
women earn 8.3% less than U.S.-born white women. U.S.-born black women earn 10.1% less than U.S.-born
white women. African women also earn 10.1% less. Haitian women are the worst off, earning 18.6% less.
Analyses of unemployment • and poverty rates show that U.S.-born and foreign-born black populations are also worse
off than U.S.-born whites on these measures.
• Economically, U.S.-born and foreign-born blacks have common problems that need to be addressed.
A broader look at the socioeconomic conditions of black immigrants
This report first examines the population growth and geographic distribution of the foreign-born black population, and
then compares the U.S.- and foreign-born groups by educational attainment, marriage rates, unemployment rates, and
poverty rates.
These comparisons are followed by a more sophisticated analysis of the groupsÂ’ weekly wages. Multivariate statistical
analyses are used to compare the groups while taking into account 15 additional characteristics (see the appendix for
all variables). These characteristics are all useful in predicting weekly wages and could explain differences in the weekly
wages among groups. The reference group for these analyses will be U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites.
U.S.-born blacks typically are found to earn less than U.S.-born whites in these types of analyses.
http://http://www.epi.org/files/page/-/BriefingPaper298.pdf?nocdn=1
and Berry!!!!!!!????????
but remember folks........they are Bad Ass Racists.....See you BOYS around....must fly as I have important work to do.
When you act badly, I will help you turn out sadly. The way it is.
