Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Black, white, rich, poor: Storm Harvey didn’t discriminate

September 03, 2017 Black , poor: Storm Harvey didn’t discriminate 0 Comments


By WTOP, Sep. 02, 2017

HOUSTON (AP) — Harvey did not discriminate in its destruction.

It raged through neighborhoods rich and poor, black and white, upscale and working class. Across Houston and surrounding communities, no group sidestepped its paralyzing deluges and apocalyptic floods.

“Harvey didn’t spare anyone: The whole city is traumatized,” said Lynnette Borrel, whose backyard pool filled with murky water and schools of minnows from Brays Bayou on the city’s southwest side not far from downtown.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Police Killings By Race: White, Black, Hispanic Cops Divided Over Shootings, Inequality, Polls Show

January 25, 2017 Black , Hispanic Cops Divided Over Shootings 0 Comments


By IB Times, Jan. 23, 2017

Large gaps exist between views on major police and gun-related issues among blacks, Hispanics and whites within and outside the law enforcement community, according to a study published Monday by the Pew Research Center.

The center based its results on two polls conducted earlier this month of police officers and citizens of various racial backgrounds. In regards to the public discourse of law enforcement and race relations, the study found that 67 percent of police officers believed that black deaths by police were isolated incidents, while only 39 percent of non-law enforcement adults did not link these killings to a larger trend. A sizable majority, 86 percent, of police officers felt that high-profile incidents between cops and black suspects made their law enforcement jobs more difficult.
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Black, Hispanic Democrats Slam Donald Trump's Minority Outreach

August 25, 2016 Black , Hispanic Democrats Slam Donald Trump's Minority Outreach 0 Comments


By Washington Times., Aug 23, 2016 

Leading black and Hispanic Democrats on Tuesday urged voters to reject Donald Trump’s attempted outreach to minority communities, slamming the Republican presidential hopeful as a “bigot” who has risen to the top of his party while pushing a hateful, racist platform.

On a conference call organized by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, top congressional Democrats and prominent officials from New York City said Mr. Trump’s recent effort to court African-American voters is an insult.

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Under Obama, Blacks Are Worse Off -- Far Worse

July 23, 2015 Black , Black Unemployment 3 Comments

By Larry Elder, July 22, 2015 Town Hall

Ninety-five percent of black voters in 2008 voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama. Surely a “progressive” black president would care about, empathize with and understand black America in a way no other president ever has or could, right? Exit polls from Pew Research show that 63 percent of all voters – and 65 percent of Obama voters – cited the economy as the No. 1 reason they voted for him. Iraq was a distant second at 10 percent. Even for black Obama voters, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

After six years, the report card is in. The grades are not pretty. By every key economic measurement, blacks are worse off under Obama. In some cases, far worse off.

What about poverty? In 2009, when Obama took office, the black poverty rate was 25.8 percent. As of 2014, according to Pew Research Center, the black poverty rate was 27.2 percent.

What about income? CNNMoney says, “Minority households’ median income fell 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, compared to a drop of only 1 percent for whites.” The Financial Times wrote last October: “Since 2009, median non-white household income has dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s survey of consumer finances. As a whole, median incomes fell by 5 percent. But by the more telling measure of net wealth – assets minus liabilities – the numbers offer a more troubling story.”

What about net worth and the black-white “wealth gap”? The Financial Times said: “The median non-white family today has a net worth of just $18,100 – almost a fifth lower than it was when Mr. Obama took office. White median wealth, on the other hand, has inched up by 1 percent to $142,000. In 2009, white households were seven times richer than their black counterparts. That gap is now eightfold. Both in relative and absolute terms, blacks are doing worse under Mr. Obama.” Remember, these numbers apply to all “non-whites.” For blacks, it’s worse.

When looking only at “black net worth” – which is lower compared to non-whites as a whole – white households are actually 13 times wealthier than black households. From 2010 to 2013, according to the Federal Reserve, white household median wealth increased a modest 2.4 percent, while Hispanic families’ wealth declined 14 percent, to $13,700. But blacks’ net worth fell from $16,600 to $11,000. This is an astonishing three-year drop of 34 percent. Investors Business Daily put it this way, “That’s a steeper decline than occurred from 2007 to 2010, when blacks’ net worth fell 13.5 percent.” The black/white “wealth-gap” has reached a 25-year high.

What about unemployment? In 2009, black unemployment was 12.7 percent, and by 2014, it had fallen to 10.1 percent. This sounds like good news until one examines the black labor force participation rate – the percentage of blacks working or seeking work. It’s the lowest since these numbers have been recorded.

In a report for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, economist Dean Baker writes, “The drop in labor force participation was sharpest for African-Americans, who saw a decline of 0.3 percentage points to 60.2 percent, the lowest rate since December of 1977. The rate for African-American men fell 0.7 percentage points to 65.6 percent, the lowest on record. The decline in labor force participation was associated with a drop in the overall African-American unemployment rate of 0.5 percentage points to 11.9, and a drop of 0.6 percentage points to 11.6 percent for African-American men.” Not good.

What about home ownership? According to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the picture is ugly: “Millions of homeowners, particularly in minority and high-poverty neighborhoods, are still underwater on their mortgages, while millions more renters have been forced to live in housing they cannot afford or is structurally inadequate. And with the ongoing growth in low-income households, housing assistance reaches a shrinking share of those in need. … Homeownership rates have fallen 6 percentage points among black households – double that among white households. … More than 25 percent of mortgage homeowners in both high-poverty and minority neighborhoods were underwater – owing more than their homes are now worth – in 2013. This rate is nearly twice the shares in either white or low-poverty neighborhoods.”

The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., in 2011, complained about the economic plight of black America. He said, “If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House.” He repeated the statement 12 months later, when black unemployment stood at 14.1 percent: “As the chair of the Black Caucus, I’ve got to tell you, we are always hesitant to criticize the president. With 14 percent (black) unemployment, if we had a white president we’d be marching around the White House.” Rep. Cleaver should start marching because, to use his own words, the problems have not been addressed.

But, hey, the Confederate battle flag is down.
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Psst, Driver Of The Freddy Gray Van -Was BLACK

May 02, 2015 Black , Morgan Freeman 0 Comments
Morgan Freeman: White Police Committing 'Terrorism' On Black People" 

By Jessica Chasmar,
The Washington Times, May 1, 2015

Morgan Freeman argued Thursday that the unrest in Baltimore is spurred by “the terrorism we suffer from the police” and questioned why so many black people are dying at the hands of white officers.

The Academy Award-winning actor was interviewed by Newsweek to promote his new film with Diane Keaton called “5 Flights Up,” in which New York is thrown into chaos over a suspected terrorist attack. Mr. Freeman said the film does not share similarities to recent real-life events, Newsweek reported.

“That unrest [in Baltimore] has nothing to do with terrorism at all, except the terrorism we suffer from the police,” the 77-year-old star said. “And the fact that now that’s out in the open.”

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