A poor mother with her children, circa 1910: According to
recent statistics, most of the econonic progress achieved
by African Americans has now been lost.
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland
America: 'No Country for Black People'
"In 2009, average
White family income was $113,000, while for Black families it was $5,700. That
means Whites are on average 20 times richer that Blacks! Blacks are the pariahs
of America. Thirty five percent of Black families own nothing except perhaps
debt (which is true for only 15 percent of White families)."
Amid the flood of gloomy
reports about impending bankruptcy in the U.S. was a piece of information that
passed unnoticed that is perhaps even more grim. Namely, we learned that the 150-year
struggle for equal rights for Blacks, which had been thought won, has in fact
been pretty much lost.
It began, let us recall,
at the time of the Civil War, which for America was more bloody than the 20th
century's two world wars. "If slavery isn't evil, nothing is evil,”
President Lincoln said. Blacks gained their freedom and the right to vote. But
for the next hundred years in the South, the rule was "equal, but separate.”
Blacks married only Blacks, in restaurants ate in separate rooms, relieved
themselves in separate toilets, rode in the back of buses, had to yield their
seats to Whites and were educated in separate classrooms.
Until December 1,
1955, a certain Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old
Black woman from Montgomery, Alabama, returning home from work by bus, suprised
the driver by announcing that she wouldn't give up her seat to any of the three
White men who were standing. "I don't think I should get up,” Parks said.
Of course, the police were called to arrest the rebel, but her words were the
beginning of the end of racial segregation.
Eight years later, Martin Luther King uttered the famous words which for
many Americans were the most important words of the 20th century: "I have
a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character.”
King was
killed by a White assassin's bullet, as was that radical fighter for Black
rights, Malcolm X - but the
revolution could no longer be stopped.
On January 20, 2009,
Barack Obama, son of a Black father, uttered words that are now known to every
American: "I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of
the president of the United States."
The end.
Lincoln, Parks, King and Obama: In these for words, one could assemble
a Hollywood version of the story. Unfortunately, a report just published by the Pew
Research Center proves that the real-life version of the story is
somewhat different.
The report examines
the financial freedom of African Americans and other races. It outlines that in
1984, an average White family was 12 times wealthier that an average Black one.
In 1991, it was ten times wealthier. In 1995 - White families were just seven
times wealthier. But then the trend reversed dramatically. In 2004, average White
families were eleven times wealthier than Black ones. In 2009, average White
family income was $113,000, while for Black families it was $5,700. That means Whites
are on average 20 times richer that Blacks!
Blacks are the
pariahs of America. Thirty five percent of Black families own nothing except
perhaps debt (which is true for only 15 percent of White families).
Segregation, although outlawed, is a fact. Inner cities are inhabited by poor Blacks.
Crime rates are high and the schools are terrible. The crowning example is the capital
city of Washington.
Five percent of all Black
men are sitting in prison. One in seven have been, is, or will be imprisoned.
Why are things so bad
when they were supposed to be so good? Why are things so bad if affirmative
action guarantees easier Black student access to universities? After all, America
has a Black president - even if political correctness forbids Blacks from being
called Blacks, but African Americans.
Several years ago,
popular actor and comedian Bill Cosby, who himself is
a symbol of Black social progress, proclaimed that Blacks themselves are to
blame. He said they had squandered the opportunity Martin Luther King and other
civil rights leaders fought so hard to secure. Black hip-hop musicians extol
only violence, drugs and sex. And so the greatest ambition of many young Black
men isn't a college education but a 20-yard-long white limousine with a
champagne bar and a large jacuzzi tub - preferably with several girls in it.
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"It's time to
stop complaining about what Whites did to us and look in the mirror,” Cosby
said. His words should be included in a film about Black emancipation, even if
the comedian had been widely condemned for them. Some even accused him of
racism.
His opinion us undoubtedly
a liitle exaggerated. But the fact is that Black Americans have yet to fight and
win genuine racial equality. Not only with Whites, but among themselves.
