On average, black families only have about six percent as much wealth as white households. ... In the article Kristof emphasizes the social inequality of Blacks when he says "That's one reason why black families have, on average, only about 6 percent as much wealth as white households, why only 44 percent of black families own a home compared with 73 percent for white households. " Which clearly shows how Kristof is emphasizing that blacks are unequal. ... He states that black peoples average median household income is "$34,598, compared with $58,270 for non-Hispanic whites " which shows...

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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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Black households had $5,677 in wealth on average, Hispanic households had $6,325, and white households average $113,149 in wealth. ... At the same time, median family income was declining faster for the minority groups than for whites (The Huffington Post). ... In fact, the richest households garner much of their wealth from stock, while middle and lower class families gain their wealth from housing. ...

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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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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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I feel like the average person would fall under this fallacy. ... I say that because I think my family's cultural practices have definitely provided me with cultural capital. ... I also come from a family that has many college graduates and I aspire to be one as well. ... My family operates with a high work ethic, and it is expected I do the same. ... The cultural capital I inherited from my family has and will continue to help me navigate in a Eurocentric world. ...

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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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The average prisoner is said to be less educated and perform at the level of a 10th grader. ... Also, higher incarceration rates affect the family unit. ... As a result, their families struggle economically while they are locked up which contribute too cycle of incarceration in the community. ...

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The wage gap becomes harmful to African-American women because these women tend to support families on their own. Statistics show that female-headed households earn an average income of $32,031. ... The Institute for Women's Policy Research reported that 20 percent of African-American women are very worried about having enough money to provide for food and shelter for their families compared to 10 percent of white women. ...

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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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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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This impoverishment of the middle and poor classes hit families hard and "by 1989 CEOs of corporations were making 93 times as much as the average factory worker"(Zinn, 425). ... One third of African American families fell below the poverty level and black unemployment was at a rate of 30 to 40 percent, two and half times as much as whites. ...

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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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A Dutch warship brought the first cargo of twenty Blacks to Virginia in 1619. Millions of other Blacks were torn from their African homes and carried to the New World before the slave trade was ended. The Africans brought here against their will were not born slaves. In their homelands they we...

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