What I find especially interesting about those figures is comparing the various health and employment figures with the fact that today the % of black lawyers, doctors, engineers and professors. Instead of having 10-20% as many blacks as whites in such professions, the disparity is now down to 2 to 1 - this is a vast change and means (as is fairly obvious) that there is a thriving black middle class. However, given that we now have significantly more educated black professionals than before, this must also mean that for black health and employment statistics to be as bad or worse than they were 25 years ago, the position of blacks who are not part of the middle class must now be considerably worse than it was back then. This is both tragic and unacceptable and yet most white people and all white Republicans will happy say that racism is far better than it was back then, because they see far more black professionals than they used to, neglecting the fact that the blacks who are members of the impoverished underclass are much worse off than they were back then.
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queerbychoice) wrote2003-03-28 04:21 pm
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