Black People : It's 2011, are we making progress?

In the Spirit of Sankofa and Update!

I'm not sure how people feel about The Atlanta Post but here is a link to some statistics or rather statistic analysis from them: http://atlantapost.com/2011/02/09/8...at-black-america-should-pay-attention-to-now/




.......Of the eight(8) Important Statistics that Black America Needs To Recognize Now, the most serious and alarming for me...and not easy to conclude as such, would be this:

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, “The racial composition of the US prison and jail population as of 2008 was 60.21% (African American (non-Hispanic), 20.29% Hispanic, 13.44% White American (non-Hispanic) , and 6.06% Other (American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander American, and Multiracial American).”

Relative to black on black crime, the most recent government statistics indicated that “43% of all murder victims in 2007 were African American, 93.1% of whom were killed were African Americans.”




Incarceration and Crime​
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http://atlantapost.com/2011/02/09/8...-black-america-should-pay-attention-to-now/6/







 
As a local black activist friend once said: "It don't look good (for us)!"

We can only hope and pray better days are ahead if we truly unite in our own best interests and quit waiting on 'experts' aka emergency financial managers and/or black elected officials to save us!

Too many of our folk have grown too confortable merely being specators up in the bleachers cheering or jeering us:

Long overdue for them to get involved/suit up/and replace some of our lost players etc.

:SuN020:
 
IMHO what the bottom line is do we as a people, become a statistic living from year to year, or do we organize to plan for ourselves and the future of our children, so that we no longer become a product of our environment but our environment becomes a product of us.

Since we watched the Monica Lewinsky soap opera,
back then,
we forgot about the drastic cuts in welfare, the destruction of Glass Steagal that harmed our homes, pensions and life savings,
GATT and NAFTA that impoverished millions of Black families whose bread winners lost employment

and had the great opportunity to realize that the doggone darn GOP mean us no doggone good
and we should have rallied together for some real aspects, no matter how small of black nationalism

when that idiot

took office after Clinton.

Now what exactly did we unify collectivly to do to improve our statistics for eight years of living under the regime of that nut job?

realy what did we do or achieve nation wide, to achieve some level of self sufficiency, teen remediation, nationwide black education enrichment programs or self employment structures?

So here we are now 2011

Now what ?

will we start to unify and plan around the common problems and hell in each and every Black community across the nation?

or will we be here 2 years later discussing what happened?:em2700:
 
Okay Obama has been in office for 2 years now. But besides that, are we making progress? If so, how?

I think someone asked this...But my searching capabilities on Destee aren't the best.

NO
 
As a local black activist friend once said: "It don't look good (for us)!"

We can only hope and pray better days are ahead if we truly unite in our own best interests and quit waiting on 'experts' aka emergency financial managers and/or black elected officials to save us!

Too many of our folk have grown too confortable merely being specators up in the bleachers cheering or jeering us:

Long overdue for them to get involved/suit up/and replace some of our lost players etc.

:SuN020:

Nice idea but no group of people, race, ethnicity or nationality, are self motivating individually, and every group had needed a spark to set off their present proseprity and condition.

otherwise we would be living in a condition in this corporatocray that would make North Korea look like Granada

The Arabs in Kemet may not have achieved any thing more then something symbolic but it was a small group that set millions into motion

and something that can be codified was accomplished.
 

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