What are the greater challenges still facing African-Americans and U.S. society......? (i know i already posted this, but not many people gave a response.....)
2007-08-26 10:13:30 · 5 answers · asked by hey123 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
As with other peoples, they have to shed themselves of their own perception of being not equal.
A significant segment of Americas who are black (or any other color for that matter) have succeeded beyond anyone's dreams of any ethnic group. Bias against any group is able to be successful only if the individuals it is directed against participate by 'believing it."
Nothing ruins the day of anyone who is bias than simply not paying any attention to them and succeeding in what is important to the one being discriminated against.
Discriminating against any group is the sign of a sure loser and someone who has a poor self image. This is true in any ethnic group, all have people who have such a poor self image that they can only spout negative bumper-sticker mentality against some other group to feel better. This only works when the other group allows it to impact their lives.
Get educated and learn how to use that acquired knowledge to better your life and those who discriminate will simply blow away in the wind.
2007-08-26 11:14:31 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
African Americans comprise 13% of the U.S. population yet contribute to over 55% of the crime.
Despite this the Afro American has been given: affirmative action, minority quotas, forced busing, black history month, a national holiday to a controversial Afro-American plagiarist, and a favored citizen status which still has not reduced the Afro-American crime rate in the states.
2007-08-26 12:19:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The greatest challenge; shedding the label African, getting all people to simply identify them as Americans....... Frequently when Civil War questions pop up on this site it i suggested that Afircan-Americans could have 'gone back to Africa,' when in fact more than half of all blacks in America were third or fourth generation American. There is as of 2007 a fear that America will 'suffer' if its White-Anglo-Saxon identity becomes 'outnumbered' by 'non' whites. Scare headlines still erupt enumerating the rising number of non-whites and declining numbers, etc. Much of the anti-abrtion movement is generated by fears of this nature. How this relates to 'African' Americans is a tricky issue. How to celebrate one's heritage without being thought of as being of that heritage exlclusively and only linked to the heritage of being American. How to assimilate not become invisible? No easy answer for you but you keep searching someday we might all find an answer.
Peace..................
2007-08-26 10:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it says a lot that you have a black candidate for President that people are seriously considering. We also had two black Secretary of State, Ophra is one of the richest women on the planet, and several blacks have Oscars. We still need to better fund education so more blacks have a better chance in the workplace.
2007-08-26 11:32:16 · answer #4 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
desegreagtion less overt discrimination few if any lynchings
representatation in or even dominence of music and sports
2 black governors recently 1 now first serious black presidential contender
2007-08-26 10:23:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋