Consider racial imbalances in education,economy,family life,housing,criminal justice,health care,& politics?

Question

Of these societal challenges facing modern African Americans, which do you think are most difficult to overcome, and why?

Answer 1

you start with education,everything else follows.but before that can happen all the media sponsored negative role modelsneed to disapear.in their subtle way mass media tells african american children,their path to success is entertainment,or atheletics,both of which are 1 in a million shots.the other stereotype put forward is gangsterism.african american children need to know about people like comer cottrell,he started with nothing and built a cosmetics empire.all the black doctors and lawyers,politician's and clergymen.

Answer 2

Easily the economic considerations are the hardest--they have so little capital to invest. That includes educational capital for so many find no point to get the better education in order to get the better jobs and opportunities. It is just like the chronically-disincentived Native Americans. They want old ways that can't possibly happen anymore, so they don't want to bother. With America's blacks, they never really had "the good old days" in their collective memories. You've got some, like the phenomenal Michael Jordan and Isaiah Thomas who not only could shoot hoops but got an education and became excellent business managers. There are people like Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and J. C. Watts that are political anomolies but have their heads not only screwed on straight but are sharp-as-tacks accomplished souls. They don't seem to be the motivators to common students in school who sandbag the curves by fairly insisting that they WILL be the 'child left behind.' I'm sorry, but for Black America, as with Native America (and I am Cherokee), much of the racial imbalance today is self-inflicted.

Answer 3

my Caucasian perspective on your question is this....i would say politics. the imbalances in the other six areas don't leave room for many qualified African Americans for politics. by qualified i mean someone who is
a) wealthy
b)other politicians and thier money men wont "play ball" with people they think might vote against thier interests
c) the people in controll of this country dont like african americans or native americans or latinos(the three groups that have contributed and sacrificed the most for this country) and they just wont let african americans take part in the system unless they are willing to go along with the corporate plantation like condalisa rice

look at the house of representatives: its largly minority and yet they are almost powerless. if they had any real power you can bet that the discrepancies in housing, criminal justice and education would dissapear and soom we would be on a level playing field economiclly and family wise.

we gotta end this system=know your enemy

Answer 4

fixing preparation is the main. regrettably, the instructor's unions, civil provider workers, and a great sort of legislators have created a adverse, failing academic equipment that supplies you high quality preparation (the main to financial success for many) in user-friendly terms to those wealthy adequate to purchase it privately. a sturdy preparation correlates with a center to greater center type life sort, meaning sturdy housing, well being care, family contributors life, etc, and has a tendency to maintain people out of reformatory. yet an academic equipment that operates commonly for the income of instructors, directors, bureaucrats, and union bosses will for sure fail the scholars who choose it maximum. mothers and fathers who can arise with the money for extra clever will gain this, and the adverse will stay adverse in the process the subsequent generations. the only ones who can fix this (instructors, legislators, bureaucrats) haven't any incentive to realize this, and in that way the cycle keeps. unhappy yet actual!

Answer 5

housing- because there are so many single african american women trying to raise a family with little help

Answer 6

The imbalance comes more from opportunity!~or lack there of!