Monday, April 27, 2015

Social : The biggest problems facing African Americans today

Nowadays, Black Americans still have to face problems, we can evoke ten of them which are the biggest one :
  1. Lack of opportunity and safety : There has been a loss of industrial jobs and a failure to control crime in nothern cities... 
  2. Breakdown of the family : Illegitimacy increased from 23,6% in 1963 to nearly 70% of all black children today.
  3. Black anti-intellectualism : Accusations of "acting white" in the classroom
  4. Failure of urban K-12 school : Teachers unions and the education establishment have been more interested in pay-raises and grants than student achievement
  5. High incarceracion rate of Black men
  6. Reduced respect for human life : Black women have nearly 30% of the all abortions, resulting in the death of 350 000 fetuses a year or one every 90 seconds. Beyond the tragic loss of life itself, this much death reduces the civility with which people treat each other. 
  7. Licensing requirements : Government imposes barriers to labor-intensive entrepreneurial opportunities, licences are a de-factor re-creation of Jim Crow laws, they are passed in the name of "health and safety"... Moreover, continual increases in the minimum wage make it more attractive to invest in capital equipment than hire unskilled black workers..
  8. Victimology  
  9. Radical relativism : : Black leaders and liberal academics do not criticize even the most obscene behavior of people like Puff Daddy, OJ Simpson, and Dennins Rodman..
  10. Excessive race-consciousness 
As we can see, the situation of Black people in the USA is still unperfect, but still, we can notice a lot of improvment compared to what they had to endure in the past. Black Americans are nowadays well integrated in the society of the USA. 


Source : https://blessedaaron08.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/the-ten-biggest-problems-facing-african-americans-today-ranked-in-order-of-despair-caused/comment-page-1/