Blacks & Whites in the Midwest = Widest Gap of Any Two Racial Groups in the US
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research and ye shall find.Look around your city and i guarentee you the most impoverished spots ''just so happen'' to be filled with minorities.look into the prisons and I guarentee they ''just so happen'' to have an insane amount of minorities.Look at the jobless rates and they ''just so happen'' to be overwhelmingly minority.
damn this thread blew up i can't even go back and read all of this, but loyalty i feel ya on most what i read. Beyond just being poor, its the attitude that whites in general have about black people and how they treat them and view them, wether they are rich or poor black people. If a black dude is walking down the street dressed average and one of these white opinionated fools sees him, they aren't thinkin about what kind of job he has or how much money he makes, they still thinkin he is a nigger. and they above him, even if that white person works at the same McDonald's with that black man, even if the black dude is his manager. White people have been pulled up from poverty by the oppurtunities that other white people have made for them and openly allowed them to have, where as they wouldn't offer the same oppurtunities to a black person, the only reason it happens now is cause of Eqaul Opp laws and shit. The majority of whites wouldn't give the black person a chance over a white person to start. White people were given chances at jobs since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Yeah a handful of blacks were brought into steel mills but only in certain cities and used as slaves and paid like slaves. just like Mexicans are building our country today, blacks built our country to what it is today and seldom benefit from the same fruit tree as whites do without even lifting a finger. But its more about the view and the unseen but felt deep down oppression of white people toward blacks. they don't really want them to succeed and move next door. they don't want their daughters dating them. etc.
You mean the native americans who had most of thier people slaughtered and those that survived threw on reservations( of the most barren,useless land)?The same people whom whites portray to the world as living good off casinos,and lazy, when the truth is only a small minority of tribes have casinos,and nearly 50% of native americans are unemployed and living in miserable poverty?
STANDING ROCK, N.D.--A little more than 130 years ago, proud Sioux warriors fought the U.S. Army in the northern Great Plains--the vast flat sea of grass that once stretched across the north-central United States and into Canada.
Today, much of this vast grassland, now dotted with cities and farms, is covered with deep and blowing snow. And now, not only are the Sioux who live on reservations battling the worst winter weather in living memory, they are also battling for their very survival as a people.
By mid-January, eight people had frozen to death in North Dakota alone, along with 15,000 cattle. On January 21, President Clinton declared the entire state of North Dakota a federal disaster area.
Government Cutbacks
The harsh winter weather could not have come at a worse time for the Sioux. They, along with the more than 1 million other Native Americans living on reservations, have suffered huge cutbacks in government aid in everything from home repair to education. Because government aid for home repair has dropped by one-third since 1995, many homes on the Standing Rock Reservation have holes in their walls. Families can stuff the holes with rags and keep the snow out, but they can't keep out the cold.
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Unemployment on the Standing Rock Reservation is now at 75 percent, compared with 1.9 percent for North Dakota as a whole. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the unemployment rate is at a startling 85 percent.
Not all of the 555 federally recognized Native American tribes are as poverty-stricken as the Sioux. A few are rich. Still, according to the 1990 census, 31 percent--almost one-third--of all Native Americans earn incomes below the poverty line.
Lost Wars, Lost Land
How did Native Americans--with proud histories and rich cultures--end up as one of the poorest groups in the United States? The explanation lies in a tale of lost wars, lost lives, and lost land.
Between 1778 and 1868, the U.S. Senate approved no less than 370 treaties with Native American tribes, many after the tribes had been defeated in war. Under the treaties, Native Americans gave nearly 1 billion acres of land to the U.S. government. The government, in turn, pledged to protect the remaining Native American lands.
However, more often than not, the government violated those treaties, taking ever more land and resources from the tribes. The government tried to educate Native Americans in white ways.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n20_v96/ai_19199273
Today, much of this vast grassland, now dotted with cities and farms, is covered with deep and blowing snow. And now, not only are the Sioux who live on reservations battling the worst winter weather in living memory, they are also battling for their very survival as a people.
By mid-January, eight people had frozen to death in North Dakota alone, along with 15,000 cattle. On January 21, President Clinton declared the entire state of North Dakota a federal disaster area.
Government Cutbacks
The harsh winter weather could not have come at a worse time for the Sioux. They, along with the more than 1 million other Native Americans living on reservations, have suffered huge cutbacks in government aid in everything from home repair to education. Because government aid for home repair has dropped by one-third since 1995, many homes on the Standing Rock Reservation have holes in their walls. Families can stuff the holes with rags and keep the snow out, but they can't keep out the cold.
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Unemployment on the Standing Rock Reservation is now at 75 percent, compared with 1.9 percent for North Dakota as a whole. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the unemployment rate is at a startling 85 percent.
Not all of the 555 federally recognized Native American tribes are as poverty-stricken as the Sioux. A few are rich. Still, according to the 1990 census, 31 percent--almost one-third--of all Native Americans earn incomes below the poverty line.
Lost Wars, Lost Land
How did Native Americans--with proud histories and rich cultures--end up as one of the poorest groups in the United States? The explanation lies in a tale of lost wars, lost lives, and lost land.
Between 1778 and 1868, the U.S. Senate approved no less than 370 treaties with Native American tribes, many after the tribes had been defeated in war. Under the treaties, Native Americans gave nearly 1 billion acres of land to the U.S. government. The government, in turn, pledged to protect the remaining Native American lands.
However, more often than not, the government violated those treaties, taking ever more land and resources from the tribes. The government tried to educate Native Americans in white ways.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n20_v96/ai_19199273