Blog #4: Five Questions

Part 1

In the way that blacks operate. I feel like since African Americans are so used to American lifestyles based on an autonomist and independent ideas, most elite Blacks do not feel a reason to want to “help a brotha out” or help lower income blacks. Growing up in the middle class, even my own parents I feel do not give back directly to lower income families to an extent I feel is needed. If blacks could take ideas from Asian Americans who have learned to immerse their people in cultural practices so that they do not stray from their culture and help each other out to a greater extent, there would not be as many problems as there are today.

Part 2

I feel like the root of the disparity of black men and women begins at the simple gender level. Changes in gender roles are what has led to women advancing at a higher rate. As more black men have trouble in school leading to them ending up in jail usually, women left behind must take the role of being the bread winner. I feel like black men are targeted more than black women, and once they are put in jail it is much harder to recover in many ways. The U.S. is the world’s leading jailer, which does not help. Stereotypes that blacks use drugs and alcohol more than whites are stereotypes used to make it harder for blacks to get out of the cycle.

This article goes more into drug and alcohol rates.

http://blackagendareport.com/content/white-kids-abuse-drugs-and-alcohol-twice-rate-blacks

     

Part 3

Only 29% of AA women aged 28-55 earning over $55,000 are married. The ratio of black men to black women college students was 1-1, now the ratio is 9:1 (female-to-male). Compared to the Franklin article, where 75% of black families included husband and wife proves that something deeper is going on leading to destruction of the black family.

Part 4

The plight has deepened from the increased numbers of young black males in prison and dropping out of schools. Information shows that statistics for black men are much higher than other races. Two facters keeping black employment rates down are bad schools and absent parents.

Part 5

Annihilation through integration basically refers to the fact that blacks who marry outside of their race are going outside of the culture, which doesn’t usually benefit other African Americans. In relation to the marriageability index it makes the rates even lower because those people will not marry other blacks. The Evans article suggested that we should embrace our ethnocentric ideas and want to be with people who share our values, religion, and culture. I think that is very true because although marrying outside the race is integrating our nation, it also usually results in less expression of cultural ideas.