According to Jeff Jacoby's article, "Ideas run the gamut from a government check for each Black family to free college tuition for needy Black students;" (About.com). According to author and racial historian David Horowitz, "West Indian blacks in America are also descended from slaves, but their average incomes are equivalent to the average incomes of whites (and nearly 25 percent higher than the average incomes of American-born blacks of all classes)," (Reparations). ... First, the $20,000 compensation to the Japanese-Americans was paid to the individuals and/or their families who act...

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A Muckraker is a brave organization exposing injustices; so grave they made the blood of the average America run cold. ... " –charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1911 Both black and white families struggled to keep their family alive. The little children in the families, they had no choice but to work, then be educated for their family to survive. ... Low wages family prevented their children from education. ... It was either good or bad for the family and the society. ...

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Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. Hughes hated his father and he was passed around between his different family members and family friend. ... Langston continued to write poetry however and he dropped out of college with a B+ average. ...

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Johnson states, "Segregation in housing and schools is stubborn and pervasive, and the average wealth of white families is almost ten times that of Blacks." ... It was intended so the White male could have luxurious cars, live in a big house, and be able to spend money on either himself or his family. ...

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Bigger Thomas was poor for most of his life, living in a one bedroom apartment with his mother, brother, and sister, Bigger struggled through most of his life like any other average black person. Bigger Thomas never met his Father and couldn't afford to go to school or to move to a different and better place, he was forced to work to feed himself as well as his family. Like Bigger, Richard Wright was forced to live with his family in a small apartment, through most of his life he struggled to feed himself, his family, and tried to attend school as well. Richard Wright didn't get...

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This people are on welfare traveling these great distances trying to provide for their families. ... Some people have to work two jobs in order to provide for themselves and their families. ... How does the average child get access to a gun? ... Blacks in the entertainment business broke all color barriers but when they stepped out into the real world, they were the average person out on the street. ... It also shows the struggle many people (including blacks) had to go through to provide for their families. ...

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Slavery was not only about broken families and tragic break ups, but brutal work conditions. ... On average a woman made $2.25 a week, this in turn paid for her room and board, and clothing. ... They didn't have families to cheer them up when they were depressed. ... These were uneducated men trying to make an honest living to support their families. ... Families would starve to death on the account of insufficient money. ...

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In America the average income for a black man is 61% less than the average white man and that is the same percentage difference as in 1880. ... This is going to cost a lot of jobs in America and the UK so the big businesses can get richer while thousand of people have no money to support their family. ...

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The Breedlove family has moved from the rural south to urban Lorain, Ohio, and the displacement, in addition to grinding work conditions and poverty, contributes to the family dysfunction. ... He represents the average black man. ...

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Prejudices in To Kill A Mockingbird " As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it "whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." ... He was an average black man in Maycomb. ...

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More blacks ran for office and more than average were elected. ... The result of this was black families moved to the white suburbs. When the black families moved there they were met with angry white families, and eventually made the black families go back to the ghetto in Chicago south side. ...

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"1 This was because slaves had their food, clothes, shelter and everything needed for themselves and their families provided by their masters, although the condition and quality of such provisions were not mentioned. ... In his document, he wrote, "The negro men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day....

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Born into an abolitionist family, he was the great nephew of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. ... Attending his first college at Columbia University to study engineering, he dropped out with a B+ average. ... In the autobiography, "The Big Sea," Hughes writes about a boy of a poor family in the Midwest. ...

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Many black families related to them. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... Both were of well-to-do families that were proud of their heritage. ... Family Matters showed focus on a middle-class black family living in Alba 6 Chicago. ... They were portraying the average black family. ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ...

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Police Blood runs in his family. ... Throughout the year of 2012, 21 people were killed by the NYPD, which averages at almost 2 killings per month. ... Statistics for police brutality in America are as followed: 3,445 police misconduct reports 4,778 victims 258 fatalities reported One incident every 96 minutes 33% of officers charged were convicted, not justly for the crime committed 64% of officers convicted were imprisoned, not as long as justified Those sentenced served as average of 14 months, far less than citizens for the same crime (Stephan). ...

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Because of tension with whites, Teedyuscung and his family and his followers left hometown of Trenton, New Jersey to Lehigh, Pennsylvania. ... He made a relationship with the whites and at 50 years old, on March12, 1750 he and his family were baptized a Christian and all took new names. ... He learned the native ways with his Dutch family. ... The average sugar baron in Barbados owned 115 slaves in 1680 and slaves became the majority of the population. Few slaves could have families due to the man to woman ratio, so the slave population could not grow by natural reproduction. ...

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His father, born in Stockbridge, Georgia, had worked very hard to get an education so that he would not have to partake in the family business of sharecropping. ... The King family viewed education, like many black people, as the key to getting ahead. ... Although love and a relative financial ease allowed Martin Jr. a certain shelter and comfort, his family could not fully protect him from the cruelty of racism. ... King died, he had been arrested 14 times, had his home bombed three times, and received and average of at least one death threat per day. ...

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But then again how would you be looked at by your own race, by your family. ... The ex-colored man didn't want the average salary of a black man; he wanted what he deserved despite of his color and race. ...

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The existence of single-father families is very low; only 3.4% of white children, and 4.0% of black children reside with solely their fathers (U.S. ... In addition, 63% of families maintained by white grandparents had both grandparents present, compared to only 35% of families maintained by black grandparents (U.S. ... Also, based on the Census Bureau statistics, the absence of the black father in a vast amount of families is a huge blow to the advancement of the young black man. ... With out a family to rely on, a growing black man is being sent up the river with out a paddle. The tragic ...

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The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and it's not fair for the average white person. ... A black athlete then doesn't have to be as smart as the average white athlete to get into college. ... They say that since they grew up in a poor family, they can't do good or excel, but anyone can do good or excel if they put their mind to it. ... Many whites grow up in poor families, and they can't use excuses either. ...

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According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Once a black family moved into a house on Kinloch grounds, all of the white families around them began to leave the city (Wright 7-9). ... "We like it this way," said my friend Alfredo Lewis commenting on the community empowerment theory, "I don't care if a few white families move in around me, as long as I live in a place that's mos...

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The descendants of these people would feel that their family has already given enough or should at least not be included among the people who would have to pay reparations. ... The people who would receive this money are far down the family tree from the people who were slaves. The Japanese-Americans who were paid $20,000 after World War II were either themselves put in internment camps or were family members of the people who were in them. ... When compared to the people in the African countries from which the slaves were taken, black people in America today earn on average a per capita in...

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I feel strongly that keeping your family close will help you have a healthier life. ... In my life a family member that I loved very much caused me this same anger. ... Family is also very important to me so when someone in my family lets me down it hurts more than the average person. ... He promised he wouldn't break apart my family even when he knew he was. ... Even though I was furious with every thing he did, he was still my family and i found it in my heart to forgive him. ...

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King graduated with the highest grade point average in class and received a bachelor of divinity, B.D., in 1951. ... He was chosen for several reasons; he was too new in town to have made any enemies, he was young as well as skilled, he was respected, and if the boycott should fail, his family and professional connections would enable him to find another pastorate somewhere else. ...

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