African Americans Are the Most Widely Disadvantaged Race in the United States
Hailey Simpson
Government Paper
African Americans Are the Most Widely Disadvantaged Race in the United States
Did you know that there are twice the number of bathrooms as necessary in the Pentagon? The famous government building was constructed in the 1940s, when segregation laws required that separate bathrooms be installed for people of African descent. This building isn’t the only American icon that goes back to this embarrassing and hurtful time in our history. Across the United States there are many examples of leftover customs and misrepresentations that reflect the once widespread and violent racism in the United States. These disadvantages are still disenfranchising African Americans today.
Black men suffer a little more in a variety of ways, including being stereotyped as reckless and having little regard for their children. “They are also disadvantaged because changes in the economy have depleted the number of well-paying, manual labor jobs”, said Waldo E. Johnson Jr., Associate Professor at SSA, who is the editor of Social Work With African American Males: Health, Mental Health and Social Policy, recently published by Oxford University Press. “Contemporary characterizations and depictions suggest that African-American males harbor a lifelong disregard for their own personal development, and a lack of commitment to their loved ones and society in general,” an attitude that keeps them from being helped, he said.
2008 Racial Academic Achievement Gap Fact Sheet did a study showing at comparable educational levels, Black men earn only 67% of what White men make. And in Illinois there are roughly 24,000 black inmates, but only 11,000 black college students.#
Why is there such a big disadvantage among the black community? Over the next few pages I am going to show you why 39 million african americans in the United States do not get the same opportunities or advantages. From the racial disparity in judicial sentencing, disenfranchising state
Government Paper
African Americans Are the Most Widely Disadvantaged Race in the United States
Did you know that there are twice the number of bathrooms as necessary in the Pentagon? The famous government building was constructed in the 1940s, when segregation laws required that separate bathrooms be installed for people of African descent. This building isn’t the only American icon that goes back to this embarrassing and hurtful time in our history. Across the United States there are many examples of leftover customs and misrepresentations that reflect the once widespread and violent racism in the United States. These disadvantages are still disenfranchising African Americans today.
Black men suffer a little more in a variety of ways, including being stereotyped as reckless and having little regard for their children. “They are also disadvantaged because changes in the economy have depleted the number of well-paying, manual labor jobs”, said Waldo E. Johnson Jr., Associate Professor at SSA, who is the editor of Social Work With African American Males: Health, Mental Health and Social Policy, recently published by Oxford University Press. “Contemporary characterizations and depictions suggest that African-American males harbor a lifelong disregard for their own personal development, and a lack of commitment to their loved ones and society in general,” an attitude that keeps them from being helped, he said.
2008 Racial Academic Achievement Gap Fact Sheet did a study showing at comparable educational levels, Black men earn only 67% of what White men make. And in Illinois there are roughly 24,000 black inmates, but only 11,000 black college students.#
Why is there such a big disadvantage among the black community? Over the next few pages I am going to show you why 39 million african americans in the United States do not get the same opportunities or advantages. From the racial disparity in judicial sentencing, disenfranchising state