2 myths about black people, do u know any more myths?

Question

1. There are more Black men in prison than in college.

False. The numbers that people quote are ALL of the Black men in prison, versus ONLY the free young Black men of college age, which spans the late teens to the early twenties.

The misleading “evidence‿ comes from studies such as the one conducted in 2000 by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington-based research group. JPI found that there were 791,600 Black men in jail or prison and “only‿ 603,032 of them in colleges or universities. They presented the findings as “evidence‿ of more Black men in prison than in college.


2. Black people, particularly Black men are lazy.

False. How can a people who built this nation and did it for free suddenly become the laziest people in the nation?
According to the US Census Bureau, 68.1% of all Black men and 62.3% of Black women over the age of 16 are in the civilian labor force, compared to 73% of white men. And 59.9% of white women. With racial discrimination and other ch

9. Women outnumbering men in college is a Black phenomenon.

False. According to the US Department of Education, male undergraduates account for 44 percent of student population, while female undergraduates account for 56 percent. This is not race specific. There are some real reasons for it and I will deal with it in an upcoming column

Answer 1

1.Black people love fried chicken and watermelon

2.All black people drink koolaid

3.All black men are well endowed

4.All black women are loud

5.All black people can dance

6.All black people live in lower-class neighborhoods

All of this is bull$h!t though but that's all that I can can think of...

Answer 2

Yes.http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=beat+whitey+get+a+reward&fr=ush-ans

Answer 3

all blacks speak some kind of ebonics. (strangely enough, i read this in a book written by black women who advocated that ebonics is genetic. it pissed me off)

all blacks do poorly in school (um, came in the top 3 in all my classes since grade school, thank you very much)

blacks with dreadlocks or natural hair can't get a job in the corporate world (i have never had a problem with mine, and i'm a professional)

all black women are hard and bitter

Answer 4

All black people are poor
Most blacks are on welfare
Blacks are lazy...
Blacks are criminals...
Blacks are in gangs...
Blacks are civilized...

Answer 5

1. that black ppl love fried foods
2. all black ppl are ghetto
3. that black ppl can only dance and sing and rap

Answer 6

david banner plays soccer

Answer 7

Black men are all well endowed.

Answer 8

please why bother naming them when they aren't true.

(only ignorant people actually believe this.)