| Kasz216 said: Also... i find it amusing how you say... "The statistics don't lie." You can run from the debate all you want. But the trtuth is. The problem largely concerning black people now is a wealth issue. Unlike... women.
This racial wealth gap accounts for many of the racial differences in socioeconomic achievement that have persisted in the post-civil rights era. When we compare black and white families who have the same income and net worth, we find that African-American kids are more likely to graduate from high school than whites and are just as likely to complete college. And when we compare individuals who grew up in families with the same economic resources--income and wealth--we find that the wage gap between blacks and whites disappears and that African-Americans are just as likely as Anglos to be working full time. But among the poor, a lack of assets makes blacks more likely to rely on welfare. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/conley Stacey Jones, an African-American woman with a graduate degree and a solidly middle-class job, describes a common bind for minority parents: "I am, in effect, priced out of homebuying in good school districts," she says. "This, in turn, makes it difficult for me to pay more for housing, since I am spending a good deal of my income on education for my children." For much of the growing black middle class, a lack of assets means living from paycheck to paycheck, being trapped in a job or a neighborhood that is less beneficial in the long run, or not being able to send one's kids to top colleges. Income provides for day-to-day, week-to-week expenses; wealth is the stuff that upward mobility is made of. Equality of opportunity cannot be achieved under unequal conditions (such as differential access to wealth). Indeed, whether the parents enjoy the American dream of the house, the car and the 401k is one of the best predictors of whether a child will have a chance to achieve the same.
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I grew up without any of those things and also kicked out of the house at 18 because my mom believed in setting out on ons own.
I currently go to school at Northeastern and have a ~3.5 GPA and a steady job and a condo apt with a pool. Any black person should be able to do what I did.
However, I went to public school for one year, before I paid (myself) to go to private high school.
In that year, every white teacher told me that I didn't need to take the tests because they knew I knew the work, even if I didn't. I got all A's in every single class, and an A- in a class that I slept in.
The black kid next to me who did homework for other classes got a B.
Sure this is just anecdotal evidence, but you have to at least understand my perspective where I've gotten so much shit easy compared to the black kid sitting next to me.
