Do you think that African Americans should get reparations?
I'm not trying to start trouble but I just wanted to know everyones stance on it. I'm kinda in the middle of it. I think that maybe Black Americans should get some type of money for it but then again I don't. I don't know, but some people don't derserve any.
Why the f/ck do native Americans get exlsucive benefits?
READ BEFORE YOU INSULT ME! Ok, i feel sorry for what happened to native Americans ALL those years ago. But, it was their ancestors who had to face the adversities and the troubles, NOT the Native Americans of today. I don't know why they get special treatment. Being conquered, it happens. Every nation has conquered at least one country in their history, weather recorded or not is a different story. Should Macedonia pay benefits to all those countries that Alexander the great conquered? Should France apologize to all those countries Napoleon conquered? We need to leave the past in the past. We should learn about it, that is a MUST. But why must we overlap our past and present together. What happened 300 years ago, does not PERSONALLY effect the Native american people of today. History happened, it was sad. But now we must get over it. Also, what's with if you 1/6 or 1/8 Native ( don't know the exact percentage) you get to go to college for free. So wait. So if you have native down the line, you get to go to college for free, that's just prejudiced. I'm not and AA so some of you can't say, ohhh but black we're enslaved, and they complain all the time. Well, no they don't. My people we're COLONIZED, i don't expect Italy or Spain to apologize to my country, or to give ME benefits, the past is in the past. Also, before America had foreigners coming in. The native Americans we're only using a small % of America's lands. Barely tapping into the rich resources that this country has. Again, it wasn't THEM who experienced the pain. People have been conquered, their lands and people we're pillaged, it happens. Native Americans are NOT special.
Why is the poverty rate of African-Americans so much greater than the overall rate in the US?
Your table starts with the year 1959. Voter suppression and Jim Crow laws as well as defacto and dejeure segregation in housing, jobs and education were widespread, Disproportionate & unjust incarcerationLet's go back further than that, thoughLet's highlight somethings :Not only did economic reparations not get made to slaves as promised, economic reparations were made to slave holders. Wow. How's that for justice?As Dennis Copeland points out, the majority of African Americans aren't living in poverty, but they are overrepresented in poverty and the the justice system/ prison system.So, when we look at why any American who lives in poverty, regardless of their racial or ethnic identity, there can be any host of individual circumstances that lead them there. Job loss, medical problems, mental health or learning issues, substance abuse, etceteraAll of those issues apply to individual black Americans who live in poverty. Just add on the additional barriers of racism in the justice system, housing , education and job market.
Are the black Americans really the true biblical Israelites?
The black race has suffered many of the curses of the Ancient Israelites even today blacks are subjected to incredible racism by the white race.. We know that Ancient israelites were not a white skinned blue eyed nation. The ancient Israelites were black and were said to have been sent into slavery by ship,all over the world and indeed blacks were shipped by ship as slaves all over the world. wouldnt this be American slave ships? So do you believe the blacks in america are the true israelites?
When will the white race become extinct?
The reason why whites have stopped reproducing at a fast rate is because the world is overpopulated. This is especially understood in Europe, the white homeland. However other ethnic groups are not doing what is best for the world and continue to overpopulate it. Whites do mingle with other ethnic groups to a certain extent. Whites, especially those who are young, have had anti racist sentiment literally drilled into them every year they spend in the school system and tend to be OK with interracial relationships. However other whites, including some young ones, will likely remain pure white. So i don't really think whites will go extinct. I like your comment about efforts to preserve the white ethnic groups being called racist. I would agree that any active effort to keep a race and culture intact would be very vulnerable to accusations of racism. and of course everyone knows that one accusation of racism true or false is all that is needed to ruin someone.
Why do minority neighborhoods tend to be poor?
I live in a neighborhood with a racial makeup of about 55 percent Hispanic and 45 percent black. My husband and I are probably the only non-Hispanic white couple residing in the neighborhood. The neighborhood is poor and somewhat ghetto. Most of them are not property owners; instead, they rent their homes, and the ones that do own their homes often have homes with low house values. The schools are often underfunded because the attendance rates are low, as well as the test scores. My husband and I, however, are home owners. We're fairly new to that neighborhood, and only reside there due to the close proximity of our jobs. We want to move out, however, which could have an adverse effect on our net pay because moving in a rural area would be more costly; thus, we would have a higher mortgage rate and have to take a pay cut as a result.