Summary Of 12 Reasons Why African Americans Are Poor

Throughout the passage many of the Africans go through a developmental situation which goes onto a very physical and mental note to develop defense mechanisms for survival. Some of the most difficult and most used mechanisms of defense that the Africans were put through was the act of starvation, being a hard-working slave, that was treated terribly and had no breaks, and the living environments and environment exposure. Documents A, B, D, F and G will help further explain the hardships African slaves faced, and how the Africans handled the hardships that they faced throughout.

“All Men are created equal” a quote from the United States Constitution. Freedom is what the United States stands for it is what it was rooted from. However, we are into the 21st century and the idea that the United States still discriminates against a certain race is taboo to many. Everyone likes to walk around thinking that everything is alright and equal. Sadly this is not true. The African American, especially those found in the urban setting of Chicago is at a disadvantage. This is due to the erosion of the public education system along with fractured families along with other socioeconomic factors which have contributed to the cycles of poverty and ultimately creates a disadvantaged for African Americans in Chicago. For this research paper I’m going to focus on Chicago for its strong roots in the African American Community, but this isn’t just a one city problem the disadvantages to African Americans are spread out throughout the entire country in every major city in every state and there is no hiding from it.

During pre-colonial African kinship and inheritance, it provided the bases of organization of many African American communities. African American men were recognized for the purpose of inheritance. They also inherited their clan names based on their accomplishments, as well as other things when one decease. Land was not owned in many parts of Africa during the pre-colonial period. It was yet held and distributed by African American men. Access to the land by women depended on their obligations or duties within the gendered division of labor. Agriculture was the job of many African women. Men believed in having several wives that would all work together as farm workers and do whatever duties necessary as required.

Of course, those Korean immigrants were only ‘fighting’ for their own economic survival in America, too. Yet the assertion was understandable: during the 1970s and 1980s, deindustrialization, which brought unemployment to the middle class, would only exacerbate the conditions of Los Angeles’ most impoverished. The few remaining jobs it left to the slums had been seized and hoarded by Korean immigrants. In the reality of the situation, however, African Americans, despite their efforts and an ongoing movement for civil rights, were simply incapable of achieving the same level of entrepreneurial success of Korean Americans during this time period. The reasons for their shortcomings in Koreatown, in addition to lacking higher education and professional job experience many Korean immigrants had at their disposal, were primarily due to the deeply ingrained institution of prejudice against African Americans. African Americans were helplessly vulnerable to racism—regardless of how hard they worked, they would struggle to compete with other minority groups.

Since the first African slaves were brought to America in 1619, life for African Americans has been a struggle. During the time of slavery, blacks were treated just like animals. They were the property of their owners and only received what their masters deemed necessary. Because of this, blacks received little health care and had to survive off of the scraps they were given. As time went on, African Americans learned how to adapt to their surrounds. They made the best meals they could from the food they had, and made medicine from the plants and resources that they had. However, as African Americans made the most of what they had, European Americans had ample resources to grow and prosper on this land. They were able to purchase land, food,

Did you know that there are twice the number of bathrooms as necessary in the Pentagon? The famous government building was constructed in the 1940s, when segregation laws required that separate bathrooms be installed for people of African descent. This building isn’t the only American icon that goes back to this embarrassing and hurtful time in our history. Across the United States there are many examples of leftover customs and misrepresentations that reflect the once widespread and violent racism in the United States. These disadvantages are still disenfranchising African Americans today.

Even though black people have descendants who suffered much more inequality issues than they have faced nowadays, they still have to deal with this historical problem in different ways. The wealth gap between whites and blacks is huge, “every extra dollar of income earned by whites generates $5.19 in new wealth over 25 years while another dollar of income for a black family adds a mere 69 cents to its bottom line (Starkman)”. These numbers show us that we still live in a segregated

African American have high poverty levels because they don't have a job and many don't finish school because they have to take care of their family or they didn't have the money to finish an education and get a degree. Many African American have a harder time finding a job because sometimes racial profiling can exist when looking for a job. The mortality rate is higher because African American have more heart attacks, cancer, and diabetes. Hispanic and whites have lower morbidity and mortality rate than the average African American. African American life span is below the normal of what a white person normally lives, a factor that it can contribute to high mortality rates is when African Americans were slaves, and it just kept on rising with

Can you imagine having a hard-working day at work with no food, unhealthy work conditions, and little to no support? It is no surprise that young African Americans are struggling in almost every arena, due to these matters: malnutrition, health hazards and lack of guidance. There are many elements working against young African American males that affect them biologically, psychologically and socially. Their parents have a lot to do with the way they are affected. Parents need to work hard to provide the basic needs that their children need to survive, but can’t meet the need due to inadequate funds, poor housing, and no health care.

Statistically speaking nearly 1 in 3 Native Americans (29.2%), over 1 in 4 African Americans (27.2%), and 1 in 4 Hispanic/Latinos (23.5%) are below the poverty line (Initiative, 2016). What does this tell us as Public Administrators? It makes us as public administrators what are contributing to these poverty rates and what can we do about it. We as public administrators must be aware of current trends of the overall population and minority groups of the population. For an example, African Americans are more likely to be incarcerated at a rate more than three times their 13.2% share of the overall population.

Poverty is not just about income, but it is about the health of people, their feelings, relationships and the environment, and society (Sutherland, 2013). According to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) (2016), the highest poverty rate is among African Americans, which make up 27.4 percent. In addition, children under the age of 18, which is about 21 percent of about 15.3 million, live in poverty. The concern related to this population is the chances of adolescent getting HIV. According to McKay, Alicea, Elwyn, McClain, Parker, Small, and Mellins (2014), 50 percent of adolescents and young adults are infected with HIV each year. In addition, due to the fact that some adolescent

In his discussion on poverty among African Americans, William Wilson has identified several historical factors that have contributed to the increase in poverty levels in the recent years. Such factors included, first, shift in the American economy from industrial to informational economy, thus limited the labor poll to only highly specialized individuals; second, the historical flow of migrants, and what it bring with it from competition over limited amount of resources; third, change in the urban minority age structure, where individuals who are underage are the majority in both Hispanic and African American poor communities, Fourth, population change in the inner city; and finally, the class transformation of inner city, where middle class African Americans, have left the inner city and moved towards other middle class neighborhoods, thus, leaving behind a concentration of poor and underclass African Americans in inner cities all across the United States.

For this particular assignment, I have chosen to focus on African Americans and their economical progression and lack thereof. African Americans or “Blacks” have migrated down to the south to create better lives for themselves. In today’s society, there are many African Americans that have the desire to own their own businesses. However, there are also many African Americans who do own their own businesses. In my opinion, it is very important for African Americans to own their own businesses. It is also vital that once that goal is met, we, as African Americans should take initiative to make sure that goal of owning a business is secured.

After historical struggles for equality, modern-day African American society still experiences new forms of rising segregation in the United States. On January 1st of 1863, African Americans were granted new educational, political, and economic opportunities through President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (Foner and Garraty 1). However, despite some improvement in African American status, underlying racism grew in the following century with Jim Crow laws to reinforce racial segregation (Carson 2). Created in 1877, the Jim Crow laws established a “separate but equal” status, re-institutionalizing the disadvantages that African Americans faced. Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation had opened the way for future freedoms, and

Africa is a continent plagued by misinformed and false stereotypes, rarely being seen or portrayed as what it really is. Countless amounts of myths and ideas are formulated based off of single stories or one-sided stories from the region, often without a second thought. These stereotypes give Africa an overall negative image to the rest of the world and suppress the reality that is hidden behind the slew of stereotypes. The belief that all of Africa is poor and undeveloped is an uninformed statement that harms the reality and worsens the image of the continent by perpetuating an incomplete idea into the world.