Los Angeles blacks still fare poorly, study shows

[Ebusitanus]

LOL, Lets bend like a pretzel to "explain" this. I find it hilarious how Asians seem to have no problems eventhough one would think they are also a prosecuted minority by those evil, evil crackers.


http://za.today.reuters.com/news/new...S-20050714.XML

By Alexandria Sage
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blacks in America's second-largest city fare the worst among all major races in education, health, economics, housing and criminal justice, according to a study released on Wednesday.
"The State of Black Los Angeles," prepared by the United Way and the Urban League of Los Angeles, said the promise of the American Dream was still out of reach for many blacks in the city.
"At the heart of this shortfall is a fundamental issue of equality -- not simply equality as a right but equality as a reality and practice," it said.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was joined by religious and community leaders, including Police Chief William Bratton, at a downtown panel to voice concern at the sobering picture presented in the study.
The study found that nearly half of black L.A. high school students don't graduate within four years, that the median household income for blacks is more than $20,000 below that of white families and that the 14 percent black unemployment rate is more than double that for whites and Asians.
"I see it as a call to action. I see it as a challenge," said Villaraigosa, the city's first Latino mayor in more than 100 years. "Because a great city cannot be that great shining city with so many people left behind."
Blacks, who make up 10 percent of the population of Los Angeles County, scored the lowest on an "equality index," which measures discrepancies in conditions for individual races.
The county's population is about 9.8 million, of whom 3.8 million live in the City of Los Angeles, 2003 census figures show.
Measured against a benchmark of 1.00 for whites, blacks scored .69, as compared to .71 for Latinos and .98 for Asians. The only area in which blacks scored higher than all other races was in civic engagement, which includes voter participation, military service and English fluency.
Some panelists spoke of a sense of "deja vu" at the report's findings which come 40 years after the city's deadly 1965 Watts riots.
The report's statistics -- for example, that more than 75 percent of black fourth-graders cannot read proficiently, a number that increases to 83 percent by 11th grade -- "put a chill in your spine," Villaraigosa said.
"If we can't read or write, if we don't have the access to computers and textbooks, we won't be able to compete," he said.
Bratton, whose department has struggled to fend off criticism that it unfairly targets minorities, called improved public safety the catalyst that would spur change in other areas.
"You cannot educate your child if they live in fear in their schools and their streets," Bratton said. "You cannot have economic investment in neighborhoods where crime is out of control."
Half of all murder victims in the county are black, Bratton said, and 32 percent of all black males born in 2001 would end up in prison, a statistic he called "horrifying."
Other findings in the report include:
- Blacks have the highest rate of homelessness, representing more than 30 percent of the total homeless population.
- The average jail sentence for blacks for violent offenses is 46 months, compared to 13 months for whites.
- Blacks have the highest overall death rate, with deaths from homicide and HIV and AIDS more than three times higher than other groups.

[Strengthandhonour]

I think this article pretty much corresponds to Blacks throughout the entire country. Blacks get the most benefits out of all foreign groups in America and yet they make the least of it. It simply is not right, they are given so many oportunities but they don't know how to take full advantage of them.

[Ebusitanus]

Its all your fault Strengthandhonour, you are trying to keep the black man down.

Happy birthday btw

[Strengthandhonour]

haha thank you.
But I never done any harm to the "Black man", all they do is ask me the answers for the book work they gave me in Science and history class. The chances and opportunities are given to the, now its up to them to push themselves and make it, but i doubt they will any time soon..

[Ebusitanus]

And one would think that with the generous dose of white genes American blacks have that they would perform somewhat better. The point I like the most about the report is how Asians are up there along with whites making any easy critique fail on its face.

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

By any yardstick by which human achievement is measured, Blacks end up on the bottom (outside of playing the drums and running the 100 meters).

This article is only the surface story. Here is what is going on in L.A. The historic black neighborhoods have been invaded by illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America. (Even though English is a second language, they score better on standardized testing than blacks).

Black welfare is now limited to five years not five generations. (A survey found that Blacks and Hispanics living in the getto make aproximately the same amount in terms of dollars but Blacks get theirs through welfare and public assistance while Hispanics get their money by doing manual labor-type jobs.

Black street gangs no longer own the streets. Mexican and Central American gangs own the streets and blacks are afraid to leave their homes. Mexicans hate blacks and vice versa. Blacks get no free pass race card from Mexicans.

Result: The black birth rate has dropped. Blacks are "going south", leaving L.A. and heading back to their roots. All the complaints lodged in the article by Blacks are symptoms of these problems rather than of any reasons stated by Blacks.

Yea, Blacks are doing poorly in L.A. They are getting the shit squeezed out of them and guess what, nobody cares.

[Ebusitanus]

Interesting info Solar. If one thing is true is that these Mestizos have no problems with dealing with Blacks. What do you mean under "going south" to their roots? You surely do not mean Africa, right?

[Strengthandhonour]

that's interesting dr solar wolff. I noticed that in my area usually the blacks ally themselves with the Mexicans/Guatemalans/etc and work together as a coalation against the "Crackerjacks".

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Ebusitanus

Interesting info Solar. If one thing is true is that these Mestizos have no problems with dealing with Blacks. What do you mean under "going south" to their roots? You surely do not mean Africa, right?

Going to south States maybe?

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

Originally Posted by Ebusitanus

Interesting info Solar. If one thing is true is that these Mestizos have no problems with dealing with Blacks. What do you mean under "going south" to their roots? You surely do not mean Africa, right?

I am sorry guys. "Going South" originally meant, for Blacks, that they had enough of the northern USA and were returning to their ancestral homes in the South, the southern part of the USA. But now the expression "Going South" has come to mean something which is about to fail such as a car with mechanical problems or even a bad back, foot or knee--any working system. My reference incorporated both meanings.

[Ebusitanus]

Ok, thanks for that clarification. Black flight, who would have thought about it? In any case even the ol´south is getting filled with these mestizos.