The Black Condition
These statistics appear in the book, The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms (Chicago: Lushena, 2002). Those who view these devastating facts must question the "civil rights" coalition leadership that led us here. As Blacks, we are responsible for allowing ourselves to be misled and deceived into this sad state of affairs. If you are not engaged in some effort to reverse one or more of these statistics you have sentenced yourself to total destruction.
POVERTY While constituting roughly
13% of the total population, Black America represents nearly 30%
of America's poor. That compares with 11%, or 16 million, whites,
who live in poverty; and 27%, or 8 million, Latinos. Black family
income is just 60% of white income, and 43% of all Black children
live beneath the poverty line-a figure almost identical to that
which existed on the day Martin Luther King was assassinated,
and 4 times the average for western European countries. Black
children today are much more likely than whites to lack early
pre-natal care, and have single mothers or unemployed parents.
White Americans possess 12 times the average net worth of Blacks.
Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be among the working poor-those
who are employed at wages below the poverty level. 70% of elderly
Blacks have no financial assets.
DRUGS & CRIME For many Blacks, drug use (including
alcohol) amounts to self-medication for depression rooted in hopelessness
caused by white racism. This medical need is exploited
by a corrupt society hell-bent on criminalizing the Black
race. Blacks, who comprise only 13% of the population and account
for about 13% of drug users, constitute 35% of all arrests for
drug possession, 55% of all convictions on those charges, and
74% of all those sentenced to prison for possession. Blacks are
incarcerated at a rate that is more than 6 times that of whites.
In total, between 1980 and 1999, the incarceration rate for Blacks
more than tripled from 1156 per 100,000, to 3,620 per 100,000.
This is more than 4 times the rate of incarceration of Blacks
in South Africa during the apartheid era.
The number of college-aged Black males in prisons and jails in
the U.S., 583,000, is greater than the number of Black males enrolled
in higher education, 537,000. On any given day, about 1 in 3 Blacks
between the ages of 20 and 29 is in prison, on probation, or on
parole. In 1999 nearly 1.5 million children in the U.S. had at
least 1 parent in state or federal prison (up from less than 1
million in 1991).
The Black male homicide rate is 7 times the white male rate. Black
women are 18 times more likely to be raped than white women. The
death penalty has been imposed in 682 capital cases since 1995.
The U.S. attorney recommended the death penalty in 183 of them-of
those cases 26% involved white defendants, 74% "minority."
Blacks make up 40% of the death row population.
Between 1989 and 1994, there was a 78% increase in the number
of Black women under correctional supervision, the highest for
all demographic groups within those years. Approximately 65% have
children. The rate of imprisonment for Black women is more than
8 times that of white women.
AIDS There is strong evidence that AIDS is a disease created
by white bio-chemists and deliberately released in Africa through
vaccination programs. Blacks account for 30% of people with AIDS
in America. 54% of children under age 13 with AIDS are Black.
HIV/AIDS is the number 1 cause of death for Blacks aged 25 to
44.
In recent years, the estimated incidence of HIV/AIDS has declined
for every race except Blacks. In 1997, four times as many Latinos
and eight times as many Blacks as whites contracted AIDS. Whites
with HIV are far more likely to receive advanced drug therapy-a
trend that slowed the white death rate from AIDS by 28% from 1995
to 1996, but by only 10% for Blacks. Blacks account for 57% of
new infections of HIV and by the year 2005, African Americans
will account for 60% of AIDS cases.
HEALTH The state of Black health scores below every other
race in the U.S. Every year 250,000 Blacks-a number of people
equal to the population of Birmingham, Alabama-are killed by the
10 biggest killers of Blacks of all ages: heart disease, cancer,
stroke, AIDS, accidents, homicide, diabetes, pneumonia and influenza,
chronic pulmonary diseases such as asthma and bronchitis, and
infant mortality. 79,680 Black boys and men were violently murdered
between 1985 and 1993, mostly by other Blacks. If Blacks had the
same mortality rate as whites, about 64,000 people each year-more
than all Americans who died in the Vietnam War-would still be
alive. Whites live 6 years longer than Blacks.
Black infant mortality is more than twice as high as that for
whites and higher than in many "Third World" countries.
A Black baby is more than twice as likely as a white baby to die
before its first birthday, yet babies of largely poor West African
immigrants survive just as well as whites. 1 in 7 Black babies
is born with a low birth weight, which makes them 40 times more
likely to die.
Blacks have a 60% higher diabetes-related mortality than whites
and suffer 30% higher cardiovascular mortality, 25% higher cancer
mortality (including breast cancer). Blacks with prostate cancer
are 2-3 times more likely to die than whites. African-American
men have the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world. Blacks
with lung cancer were 24% more likely than whites to die within
5 years. The death rate of middle-aged to elderly Black women
from coronary heart disease is more than 70 percent higher than
that for white women.
Blacks and Latinos run a higher risk than whites of getting Alzheimer's
disease, though it is virtually unheard of in Africa. Blacks have
almost twice as many strokes as whites. Black males who suffer
a stroke have a 95% higher death rate than whites-75% higher for
Black women. 30% of Blacks are smokers, 23% of whites. Blacks
are more likely to be obese and to have hypertension. For African
Americans, high blood pressure is epidemic. It's the severe high
blood pressure that leads to greater rates of stroke, heart attack,
and kidney failure. Further, for African Americans, the darker
the skin, the higher the blood pressure. Africans generally have
low blood pressure.
Blacks, in particular, receive outdated or far less aggressive
treatment, even when their condition and health insurance are
identical to those of whites. Doctors are less likely to perform
high-tech, diagnostic procedures on Blacks and less likely to
go to extreme measures to keep them alive if they go into cardiac
arrest on the table. Whites are two-thirds more likely to receive
kidney transplants than others. When hospitalized for pneumonia,
whites are more likely to receive intensive care than Blacks are.
Twenty-five percent of Blacks in the U.S. have no health insurance.
The rates of syphilis and gonorrhea are many times higher among
Black teens than white. 90% of Black women suffer complications
in pregnancy-a rate 3 times that of whites. Suicide now ranks
among the top 10 major killers of Blacks in their teens to mid-40s.
Sixty percent of all deaths of Black boys between 15 and 19 in
1990 were from guns. In 1997, that rate had dropped more than
40%, but was still more than 4 times the rate for their white
peers. The Justice Department estimates that one out of every
21 Black men can expect to be murdered, a death rate double that
of U. S. soldiers in World War II. A young Black male in America
is more likely to die from gun fire than was any soldier in Vietnam.
HOUSING 55% of Blacks live in the cities, while 70% of
whites live in the suburbs or rural areas. Los Angeles and New
York are ranked 2nd and 3rd behind Sao Paulo, Brazil, in their
homeless population, and 80% of America's homeless are Black.
60% of the total Black population in the U.S. lives in communities
with one or more uncontrolled toxic waste sites.
43% of Blacks and 68% of whites own their homes. Blacks were 210%
more likely than whites of comparable credit to be rejected for
mortgage. It is estimated that the current generation of Blacks
will lose about $82 billion in equity because of institutional
discrimination; the next generation of Black homeowners will lose
$93 billion. Blacks are 2.8 times more likely to be injured in
a house fire than either whites or Latinos.
FAMILIES 62% of Black families (up from 23% in 1967) are
now headed by single women. 67% of Black children (up from 17%
in 1967) are born out of wedlock. The percentage of Black women
who are married declined from 62% to 37% between 1950 and 1998.
In the same period the percentage of never-married Black women
doubled, from 21% to 41%. The pregnancy rate of young women 15-19
years old is twice that of whites. The rate of abortions is 50
per 1,000 pregnancies for Blacks, 17 per 1,000 for whites. Blacks
account for 41% of all abortions. Blacks report higher rates of
domestic violence than whites.
EMPLOYMENT Black adult unemployment has remained twice
as high as white unemployment for more than 30 years; 3 times
as high among young people. Black women make 89% of what white
women make; Black men make 67% of what white men make. 53% of
Black men aged 25-34 are either unemployed or earn too little
to lift a family of 4 from poverty. 21% of Black high-school graduates
are unemployed, 10% of whites. 34.4% of Black high-school drop-outs
are unemployed-18% of whites.
Blacks hold only 10.1% of U.S. jobs and are dramatically underrepresented
in many professions. They are only 3.2% of lawyers, 3% of doctors,
and less than 1% of architects. Black males have both the lowest
average level of educational attainment and the highest percentage-nearly
50%-of workers with more education than their jobs require. White
males with a high-school diploma are just as likely to have a
job, and tend to earn just as much as Black males with college
degrees. Light-skinned Blacks have a 50% better chance of getting
a job than dark-skinned Blacks. Blacks are rejected twice as often
for small business loans than whites of comparable credit.
EDUCATION 69% of Black children cannot read in the 4th
grade, compared with 29% among white children. Only 12% of Black
high-school seniors are "proficient" readers, while
54% have "below basic" reading skills. It is estimated
that 40-44% of Blacks are functionally illiterate. Black children
are almost 3 times more likely than white children to be labeled
mentally retarded. Blacks are 2.5 times more likely to be placed
in remedial or low-track classes. Even when Black students show
potential that is equal to or above that of whites, they are 40%
less likely to be placed in advanced or accelerated classes.
Two-thirds of "minorities" in public school fail to
reach basic levels of national tests. There continue to be marked
disparities between Black and white students in the national SAT
scores. 32% of all suspended students are Black. Black students
are twice as likely as whites to be suspended or expelled. The
high-school dropout rate in some inner-city communities approaches
50%. Only 26% of Blacks who do finish high school go to college,
while 37% of whites go. College-educated Blacks are 4 times more
likely than whites to experience unemployment. Black women account
for nearly all of the gains made in Black enrollment in higher
education since the mid-1980s. At Black colleges women make up
60% of enrollment and 80% of the honor rolls. Babies with poorly
educated mothers are more likely to die in the first year or have
chronic health problems growing up.
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