What percentage of African American are born to parents who are not married?
Are there actually more African Americans behind bars in America then attend public and private Universities?
Has percentage of African Americans living below the poverty line increased nearly every year?
Are these questions directed at African-American board members, or are you just throwing them out to the general Peanut Gallery?
Here are some statistics on illegitimacy and poverty. It’s an inequality/inequity comparison chart, so there may be an agenda there. Note that the average income percentage has been showing a recent upswing.
And American blacks do have more babies out of wedlock than in, it seems. But the trend has been reversing.
Don’t have any prison/higher ed numbers. I’m a little too poor, uneducated, incarcerated and overcome with pre-marital lust to look those up right now.
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Everyone should feel free to answer.
Te amo, Biggirl.
I’m curious about the motivation to ask these questions. I would suggest Farai Chideya’s Don’t Believe the Hype for stats. She has an agenda, so be careful.
My motivation was to find the answers.
The commonly mentioned 3 is more blacks involved in the criminal/justice system than in higher ed. However, even if true, which I would see very hard to investigate- ie, is 5% black African American etc… Also not all “Negroes” consider themselves AA. I know 1
(cont of above, noy my bad) 100’s of Jamaicans: they do NOT consider themselves AA. But, also probation & parole is added to prisoners-that would have to be separated out.
Slight Hijack: Should I have used the term African American or Black?
Can I be you when I grow up?
Admit it – you’re actually Queen Latifah. Or at least QL’s character in that Steve Martin film.
To continue the hijack, IANA African-American/Black/whatever but the use of AA is something that should definitely not be applied outside of the US for obvious reasons. In the UK, the racial grouping is “Black”, regardless of whether the people in question came to the UK from the Caribbean, directly from Africa, or from elsewhere (except, of course, the US). It’s a cultural difference.
Correct- Jamaicans,no I’m not Jamaican, whether in US or elsewhere, do not like the AA term. Most Cubans are now “black”- per my travels there & books I read- about 30% black & over 50% mixed. I never heard any referances to Africa there,either.
Welfare has given me some money, I got my GED, and had sex with my parole officer so. . …
Here’s an interesting bit of info from Frontline.
P.S. Thanks Mr B., sir
Indeed. I’ve seen Black History Month materials which listed Nelson Mandella as a famous “African American”.
And am I the only one who finds it surprising that black women so greatly outnumber black men in higher education? Were those statistics ultimately from the same source, using the same standards for definitions?
Frontline does say that they got this information from US Dept of Education.
I’m not surprised. Black women’s magazines (Essence being the most famous, I think) have been up in arms about black women leaving black men behind for some time now. There have been a number of articles about the shortage of college educated black men and the resultant rise in interracial marriages for college educated black women.
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Biggirl, you rock. You often find a way to say something I’d love to say but can’t get past my blinding rage to type. :)[/hijack]
The statistics about wedlock and prison vs. education have more to do with poverty than race. If there is a correlation between race and bastards or race and prison, I’m certain you would find an even stronger correlation between poverty and bastards/prison while ignoring race (since you’ll be including the poor non-blacks and excluding the wealthy blacks).
Ok, did I do something wrong asking these questions?
The percentage of black americans in poverty is not going up. In 1997 it was 26.5 and in 1999 it was 23.6 and in 2000 it was 22.1.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2002/cb02ff01.html
No, you didn’t do anything wrong. Personally, I’m wondering why you’re interested in such stats, but it’s not really any of my business.