• Report finds Hispanics faring better than Blacks in America.
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[quote]Hispanics generally fare better than blacks in rankings of inequality in American life, according to a new report by the National Urban League to be released on Thursday. The annual report, called the State of Black America, for the first time this year also included a ranking of income inequality and unemployment for 77 American cities that had large black populations and 83 cities that had large Hispanic populations, based on data from the American Community Survey, an annual survey by the Census Bureau. “You can’t have a conversation about income inequality without talking about race,” said Marc H. Morial, the president and chief executive of the National Urban League. “Black and brown people are significantly being left behind.” Nationwide, black Americans are twice as likely to be unemployed as whites (13.1 percent of blacks versus 6.5 percent of whites, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics). The rate for Hispanics was 9.1 percent. The report also focused on underemployment which includes those who are jobless and not looking or working part-time jobs but desiring full-time work. According to the report, the underemployment rate for black workers was 20.5 percent, compared with 18.4 percent for Hispanic workers and 11.8 percent for white workers. The report ranked metropolitan statistical areas where the unemployment gap between blacks and whites was both larger and smaller than the national average. Unemployment levels include those who are actively looking for work.[/quote] [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/report-finds-hispanics-faring-better-than-blacks.html?src=twrhp&_r=0[/url]
Step up your game black people.
It's been like this for like nearly 20 years now.
That's because every time you work with a Hispanic person, they always bring food for everyone. :v: They know the way to peoples hearts.
Why are East Asians, Arabs, and Indians generally excluded from this type of research?
[QUOTE=Angus725;44442927]Why are East Asians, Arabs, and Indians generally excluded from this type of research?[/QUOTE] Cause they don't face these problems and minorities on a much smaller scale
[QUOTE=Angus725;44442927]Why are East Asians, Arabs, and Indians generally excluded from this type of research?[/QUOTE] It says in the article "black and brown people"...
[QUOTE=Angus725;44442927]Why are East Asians, Arabs, and Indians generally excluded from this type of research?[/QUOTE] Google 'model minority'. Asians and Indians statistically far outperform Africans and Hispanics in income, education and poverty levels. As a result, poverty research on Asians and Indians isn't done very much. Arab American statistics aren't as available because they only make up 1.1 percent of the US population and are considered 'Caucasian' by the US government, as Europeans and North Africans are.
It's cultural. Just because they're minorities doesn't mean they're the same.
[QUOTE=Angus725;44442927]Why are East Asians, Arabs, and Indians generally excluded from this type of research?[/QUOTE] Because the majority of them don't cry oppression every chance they get and actually do something with their lives. EDIT: Not being racist, it's true. They have the least amount of people on welfare and are among the highest percentage of graduates. It's not a race issue. Just a culture one.
Maybe we should offer Hispanics a free privilege check.
[QUOTE=Angus725;44442927]Why are East Asians, Arabs, and Indians generally excluded from this type of research?[/QUOTE] because they're all doctors
[QUOTE=Gordy H.;44444180]Google 'model minority'. Asians and Indians statistically far outperform Africans and Hispanics in income, education and poverty levels. As a result, poverty research on Asians and Indians isn't done very much. Arab American statistics aren't as available because they only make up 1.1 percent of the US population and are considered 'Caucasian' by the US government, as Europeans and North Africans are.[/QUOTE] Reminds me. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race#Usage_in_the_United_States"]You shouldn't use Caucasian if you're trying to be politically correct.[/URL]
[QUOTE=avincent;44445520]Because the majority of them don't cry oppression every chance they get and actually do something with their lives. EDIT: Not being racist, it's true. They have the least amount of people on welfare and are among the highest percentage of graduates. It's not a race issue. Just a culture one.[/QUOTE] "Not being racist" and then you say an incredibly racist thing that's also untrue.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;44446226]It wasn't really though? You would be lying if you don't believe that races often have their own cultural backdrops that are quite distinct, though they dilute with further generations. The Oppressed can easily oppress themselves if they grow up in a society where racial roles are pounded into their skulls constantly; the white people have it easy, the asians are super smart and the latins have it less absolutely terrible than blacks. If they can't feel like they can defy it, and when you considered how non abundant social mobility is in the US, they begin to accept it. It's not racist because it isn't at all inherent to ANY specific race or other social group, its mental conditioning and we all go through it to some extent.[/QUOTE] Its probably racist because he said they "cry oppression" and seems like he is implying that black people and hispanic people are lazy with the welfare comment.
[QUOTE=avincent;44445520]Because the majority of them don't cry oppression every chance they get and actually do something with their lives. EDIT: Not being racist, it's true. They have the least amount of people on welfare and are among the highest percentage of graduates. It's not a race issue. Just a culture one.[/QUOTE] please dont speak for my race (im east easian) i find it worrying that people that arent that race are shoving words into peoples mouths of that race
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;44446226]It wasn't really though? You would be lying if you don't believe that races often have their own cultural backdrops that are quite distinct, though they dilute with further generations. The Oppressed can easily oppress themselves if they grow up in a society where racial roles are pounded into their skulls constantly; the white people have it easy, the asians are super smart and the latins have it less absolutely terrible than blacks. If they can't feel like they can defy it, and when you considered how non abundant social mobility is in the US, they begin to accept it. It's not racist because it isn't at all inherent to ANY specific race or other social group, its mental conditioning and we all go through it to some extent.[/QUOTE] Your argument only makes sense if you're saying that black people aren't actually oppressed, and that it's just some myth. Except they still are oppressed. And it's not just some racial malaise that's keeping them down.
[QUOTE=avincent;44445520]Because the majority of them don't cry oppression every chance they get and actually do something with their lives. EDIT: Not being racist, it's true. They have the least amount of people on welfare and are among the highest percentage of graduates. It's not a race issue. Just a culture one.[/QUOTE] the fact that you have to clarify that you're not being racist implies otherwise
[QUOTE=Explosions;44446473]Your argument only makes sense if you're saying that black people aren't actually oppressed, and that it's just some myth. Except they still are oppressed. And it's not just some racial malaise that's keeping them down.[/QUOTE] yeah i agree with explosions ever heard of institutionalized racism? its really apparent in america, goes way back to 1880s in post reconstruction period (just an example not an exact direct connection) and the same prevalent attitudes like "blacks are more susceptible to do more crimes" are still translated into american policies
[QUOTE=BLUcody;44446565]yeah i agree with explosions ever heard of institutionalized racism? its really apparent in america, goes way back to 1880s in post reconstruction period (just an example not an exact direct connection) and the same prevalent attitudes like "blacks are more susceptible to do more crimes" are still translated into american policies[/QUOTE]While that's true, the "race card" issue is still there though. Just because there's historically been oppression, and in some cases there still is, does not mean it's the white hivemind in action whenever somebody with dark skin is inconvenienced. Kinda like how people suffering paranoid delusions actually create suspicion towards them, they do and say things that are a little off that make people distrust them adding substance to their fantasy. I'm not saying black people are paranoid and/or delusional, but there are [i]plenty of situations[/i] that are not helped by the fact that black people generally feel oppressed in some way due to the history behind that. An example being my trip to the bank, standing in line for five minutes listening to an argument between the teller and a customer who was busy fighting against racial oppression that wasn't there. Turns out the reason she wasn't getting service wasn't because she was black, but because she was trying to turn in a bank receipt instead of a check that she had [i]in her other hand.[/i] While that's not the best example because she prooobably had anger issues to begin with, but it's a simple misunderstanding that spun out of control and into a big argument. I'm not going to say that black people, or any group of people, deserve to be subject to racism but I am saying that I get why it happens and why they respond they way they do. Racism is not logical, so it's definitely no surprise to find that the effects of racism to be equally illogical.
It's quiet odd really. When it comes to African-Americans I have noticed that a lot of people here tend to have grudges with African-Americans who have lineages dating back to slaves or free-slaves, but when you get an actual African from Africa, a lot less hate. Farming communities seem to have a lot of love for people coming from Somalia, Liberia, Ethiopia, and South Africa. From what I have gathered they literally bust their asses when working, so they don't get deported and such, and can give their families better lives then the ones they have. Some die-hard racist I have actually talked to like to make a point of this quiet a bit with saying shit like, "You got actual Africans. They are decent people. Then you got these fucking niggers who sit gathering welfare, while the people they claim to have lineage to turn their knuckles white trying to have it so they can be seen as Americans." I have heard the same thing about other first-generations as well. You have people who come from other countries, bust their ass, and then their generation of kids never had to experience the horrors of where they came from, and why their parents moved here in the first place. This supposedly turns the kids into softies, and the families have no damn clue on how to communicate hardwork to them, when the kids were given practically everything from the start.
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