What does it mean to be black?

[Excel]

Just about every black stereotype is true in someway; some more than others (big ***** as opposed to being stupid)

 

[Golgo-13]

Is he black? Is that why you didn't want him to see?

No, he's white; and i didn't want him to fire my black ass for not working!

 

[AndThePickles]

I think a lot of this thread will end up being "What stereotypes categorize people with dark skin?"

 

[Excel]

Once in Florida a drunk hick told me to find the colored mens room, and once during a lax game a guy calle dme a "*****"

We go through such troubles...

 

[ShadowBoxing]

My point is most races that don't know any AA in the flseh presume we are what they see on tv/rap videos etc, as does the rest of the world.

Moreso than that, the media tends to focus much more on these outlandish television personalities often times as if they represent the race as a whole. Little John might indeed be a black male, but he is hardly someone who speaks for the black community.

 

[jaguarr]

It's still not quite that simple. If your black, your chances of being born into abject poverty are 25% as compared to the population as a whole which ranges from 10-12%. You will earn, on average, 30% less than a white person of equal status. And your net worth, on average, will be 40 thousand as compared to the white average of 120 thousand. Yes, some black people are rich and born into diverse areas of the socio-economic strata, but they were even back in Kennedy and Johnson's time. The problem was, and still is, that the odds of black children being able to succeed as well as their white peers is still very unequal.

It's still a result of the differences in perceptions and attitudes more than any skin pigmentation differences. And the instances of what you cite are far fewer than what they were say fifty years ago. Most schools, large companies and corporations also have intense diversity programs that are doing a lot of work to change some of these things you bring up. I don't know how accurate the statistics you name really are, but I'd venture a guess that they aren't current. The point is, things are getting better for people of all races and will continue to do so. Socio-economically, anyone worth less than $50 Million is getting screwed anyway right now.

jag

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

It means Cops are always out to get you...which ive witnessed...therefore it is true in some ways

 

[ShadowBoxing]

It's still a result of the differences in perceptions and attitudes more than any skin pigmentation differences. And the instances of what you cite are far fewer than what they were say fifty years ago. Most schools, large companies and corporations also have intense diversity programs that are doing a lot of work to change some of these things you bring up. I don't know how accurate the statistics you name really are, but I'd venture a guess that they aren't current. The point is, things are getting better for people of all races and will continue to do so. Socio-economically, anyone worth less than $50 Million is getting screwed anyway right now.

jag

They are under a year old.

 

[jaguarr]

They are under a year old.

Link?

jag

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Link?

jag

Analog, I'm afraid. I got them out of one of those things called a book.

Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr., “Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, 4th Ed., (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2006).

 

[A.X.L]

Analog, I'm afraid. I got them out of one of those things called a book.

Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr., “Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, 4th Ed., (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2006).

Scan?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Scan please

I don't have a scanner.

 

[jaguarr]

Scan?

Hahaha!

jag

 

[A.X.L]

I don't have a scanner.

Camera

..or get to the library t:

We need the facts DAMMIT!

 

[jaguarr]

Analog, I'm afraid. I got them out of one of those things called a book.

Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr., “Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, 4th Ed., (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2006).

It was published in 2006, which means that the research that they put into the book was from at least 2005 if not earlier. So, yeah...not really current statistics.

jag

 

[Mr Jide]

To be black means to have an affinity for fried chicken.

 

[Mr Jide]

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

mmmmm. soo hungry...

 

[Armand Z Trip]

Income divide between black and white families

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years.

Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades — mainly because more women are in the work force. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday.

One reason for the growing disparity: Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only by gains among black women.

Incomes among white men, meanwhile, were relatively stagnant, while those of white women increased more than fivefold.

“Overall, incomes are going up. But not all children are benefiting equally from the American dream,” said Julia Isaacs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/11/12/news/doc47391a0193902056879434.txt

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-13-2007/0004703756&EDATE=

 

[ShadowBoxing]

It was published in 2006, which means that the research that they put into the book was from at least 2005 if not earlier. So, yeah...not really current statistics.

jag

It's current enough, especially considering that article I posted yesterday talked about a lot of those same statistics as being at twenty year lows.

 

[Matt]

Ladies and gentlemen, Matt knows what it is like to be like you. He looooves grape soda. He knows what its like when "the man" at the super market won't take food stamps or to wait all month for a welfare check *waves arms in the air* HEY! HO! HEY! HO!

Joking, of course. Great post Raybia

 

[jaguarr]

Income divide between black and white families

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years.

Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades — mainly because more women are in the work force. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday.

One reason for the growing disparity: Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only by gains among black women.

Incomes among white men, meanwhile, were relatively stagnant, while those of white women increased more than fivefold.

“Overall, incomes are going up. But not all children are benefiting equally from the American dream,” said Julia Isaacs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/11/12/news/doc47391a0193902056879434.txt

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-13-2007/0004703756&EDATE=

I will accept your research but not Shadowboxing's.

jag

 

[Mr Jide]

OR

I'm so confused...

 

[Mr. Socko]

It means we must fight the power.


Hehe, great post Raybia t:

 

[Matt]