Inadequate health
care, institutional racism, discrimination in education and criminal justice have been persistent issues of concerns for Blacks. The poverty rate for Blacks has come down from 26.5% in 1998 to 24.7% in 2008 while the national rate has gone down to 13.2%. When it comes to education, Blacks attend college at about half the rate of Whites. Merely 17.3% of Blacks have completed college. Widespread housing discrimination was quite common for Blacks. For example, under the nationwide Urban Renewal Projects programme, Federal Government demolished 20% of urban housing units inhabited by Blacks, while only 10% houses occupied by Whites were demolished. 60% of the people displaced were minorities.
However, Blacks remain an influential community. They represent the second largest consumer group with a buying power of over $892 billion, which is forecasted to reach over $1.1 trillion by 2012. Blacks owned 1.2 million of the America’s 23 million businesses in 2002. Their involvement in America’s political process is more prominent than of any other minority group, because of a cultural legacy of standing up to oppose discrimination – one reason that on April 25, 1944, one Dr. Frederick Patterson (named by his mother after the anti-slavery journalist leader Frederick Douglass) set up the United Negro College Fund. Patterson was a double doctorate (from Iowa and Cornell) and became Tuskegee University’s third President. He single-handedly set up UNCF to ensure that disadvantaged Blacks would get education support that would otherwise be impossible to procure.
He succeeded to such an extent that when John F. Kennedy got his Nobel Prize, he donated that money to UNCF. Patterson didn’t have an issue with the usage of the term Negro. Neither did UNCF. In 1987, President Reagan awarded Patterson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian award. In 1987, Patterson died aged 86. In 2010, Obama’s donation to UNCF was to follow his commitments for the Black and ‘Negro’ cause. In the same year, the United States Census Bureau included the term ‘Negro’ in the census classification – accepting that Blacks still identified with the term. The legacy is rewritten a full circle.
Akram Hoque
care, institutional racism, discrimination in education and criminal justice have been persistent issues of concerns for Blacks. The poverty rate for Blacks has come down from 26.5% in 1998 to 24.7% in 2008 while the national rate has gone down to 13.2%. When it comes to education, Blacks attend college at about half the rate of Whites. Merely 17.3% of Blacks have completed college. Widespread housing discrimination was quite common for Blacks. For example, under the nationwide Urban Renewal Projects programme, Federal Government demolished 20% of urban housing units inhabited by Blacks, while only 10% houses occupied by Whites were demolished. 60% of the people displaced were minorities.However, Blacks remain an influential community. They represent the second largest consumer group with a buying power of over $892 billion, which is forecasted to reach over $1.1 trillion by 2012. Blacks owned 1.2 million of the America’s 23 million businesses in 2002. Their involvement in America’s political process is more prominent than of any other minority group, because of a cultural legacy of standing up to oppose discrimination – one reason that on April 25, 1944, one Dr. Frederick Patterson (named by his mother after the anti-slavery journalist leader Frederick Douglass) set up the United Negro College Fund. Patterson was a double doctorate (from Iowa and Cornell) and became Tuskegee University’s third President. He single-handedly set up UNCF to ensure that disadvantaged Blacks would get education support that would otherwise be impossible to procure.
He succeeded to such an extent that when John F. Kennedy got his Nobel Prize, he donated that money to UNCF. Patterson didn’t have an issue with the usage of the term Negro. Neither did UNCF. In 1987, President Reagan awarded Patterson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian award. In 1987, Patterson died aged 86. In 2010, Obama’s donation to UNCF was to follow his commitments for the Black and ‘Negro’ cause. In the same year, the United States Census Bureau included the term ‘Negro’ in the census classification – accepting that Blacks still identified with the term. The legacy is rewritten a full circle.
Akram Hoque
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