Description of the Problem America is the most diverse nation in the world. ... Black Americans make up about 12% of the US population and they account for more then 30% of all arrests, 44% of all prisoners and 40% of prisoners on death row (Hunt, 1999:74). ... In New York City, where people of color make up about half of the population, 80% of the NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos. ... Since 1970, drug arrests have skyrocketed rising from 320,000 to close to 1.6 million according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. ... This impacts the way Americans imagine a drug user. ...

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Racial profiling is the police practice of stopping and searching African-American and Hispanic drivers at rates far disproportionate to their numbers on the road. ... Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. Statistics such as these make it seem as if racial profiling is not the result of bigot...

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It is derived from black American oral culture 4. It is derived from black American musical traditions. ... The Digest of Education Statistics estimated the number of ethnic minority teachers would shrink 5 percent, while enrollment of ethnic minority children in Americas' schools would grow 41 percent within the decade. (National Center for Education Statistics, 1998). That being said, present day educators should be striving to find innovative and effective ways to reach the growing population of minority children in American schools. ...

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The researcher also visited several websites in order to obtain up to date facts and statistics foretelling the current status of not only black males, but the entire African American ethnic group. ... Black males represented approximately 1.64% of the entire population of biological and life scientists in these select cities. ... These accurate facts in no way reflect the number of black males that live in the Unites States of America, which in the 1990's, has ranged from 6 to 9 percent of the total population. ... Also, based on the Census Bureau statistics, the absence of the black fa...

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The white population was vastly outnumbered by the blacks, but the whites were able to keep control of the countries' economy and politics. In 1978, South African blacks made up about eighty percent of the nation's population but only owned thirteen percent of the land and contained a share of under twenty percent of the national income. ... Board of Education supreme court ruling in 1957 which forced desegregation of American schools, there was much controversy over the extent that blacks should be allowed into white-American culture. ... The white Americans had alway...

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The total population of African American females was 6,581,000 and out of the total they focus on about 300,000 females, this was the approximation of how many females had 9 years or less education. ... This rate is 13.75% of the sum of all suicide rates for African-American females aged 25-54 (Fernquist 1996). ... Race specific suicide data was provided to the authors by the National Center for Health Statistics. ... The largest being the size of the black male population (Burr et al 1999). ... It only focused on race and suicide rates, finding that Hispanics complete suicide more frequentl...

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Hispanic or Latino may be used interchangeably with each other, as may Black or African American be used interchangeably. ... Unfortunately, many of these students will not reach that goal, especially if they are Hispanic or African American. This is simply reflecting statistics that even though more minorities are enrolling in college, the rates of success for these students are still shockingly lower than those of their Asian or white counterparts. ... In 2013, there are 12.8 million people on welfare in the United States, of which 39.8 percent are black and 15.7 percent are Hispanic (Welfar...

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The only problem is that it discriminates against the larger portion of the population, namely whites and men. ... Affirmative action originally began in the United States to remedy the past discrimination against minorities, particularly African-Americans. ... Eventually, these laws expanded to incorporate women and other ethnic minorities including American Indians and Hispanics. ... Statistics from universities across the nation show alarming trends of the double standards of admissions that affirmative action creates. ... These statistics wouldn't be bad if the minorities were bett...

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Trayvon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old African American boy living in Sanford, Florida, United States. On the night of February 26th, 2012, he was walking around a neighborhood and suddenly Mark Zimmerman, a 28-year-old multi-racial Hispanic American, came up to him and started fighting. ...

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Instead of treating minorities like equals, it treats them like they are better than other members of the population and puts white males in a disadvantage like the minorities once were. ... A 1995 report released by the university said that "9.7 percent of all applicants were African-Americans. ... The average grade point average for an accepted African-American student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1030." These statistics demonstrate the reverse discrimination against white college applicants due to affirmative action. ... In 1860, only 15% of American women were in the paid labor force. ...

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