Reply With Quote
lmao you don't even understand your own "sta istics".
are you gonna start talking about the money you have now?
lol CosmicCoon
lmao you don't even understand your own "sta istics".
The "I know you are but what am I" defense. Maybe now no one will notice how dumb you are.
Let me hear your explanation then. I'd love to hear it.
Go for it.FACT: 91% of african americans live below the poverty line at some point in their lives.
lol trying to make somebody insecure of their success?? Especially from poverty?? LMAO good luck with that loser.
lol CosmicCoon
Take it up with Cornell University son.
in racist Ivy League schools and racist statistics
http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicl...rty_study.htmlStudy: Poverty touches 91% of African Americans during adult years
By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
The great majority of African Americans experience poverty during adulthood, Cornell and Washington University researchers report. Their startling new findings show that nine out of every 10 black Americans, or 91 percent, who reach the age of 75 spend at least one of their adult years in poverty.
This compares with the study's equally startling findings that "on average 60 percent of all American adults will experience at least one year of living below the poverty line, whereas one third will experience dire poverty." However, the statistics on black American poverty contrast sharply with the findings that by age 75, slightly more than half (52.6 percent) of white Americans will have spent one of their adult years below the poverty line, very close to results the researchers expected. Age 75 is the average American life expectancy.
"When we began this research, we didn't know how the numbers would turn out," said Thomas A. Hirschl, Cornell professor of rural sociology. He and his collaborator, Professor Mark Rank of Washington University in St. Louis, will publish their report, "The Likelihood of Poverty Across the American Lifespan," in the May issue of the journal Social Work. The study represents the first time that such figures have been calculated within the social and behavioral sciences.
The study says it portrays poverty as a mainstream problem and not merely as an affliction of the underclass. Although the official poverty rate during the 25-year period studied ranged from 11 percent to 15 percent, the percentage of Americans falling into poverty at some point in their adults lives was actually much greater.
The study was based on a nationally representative data sample of 4,800 households and 18,000 individuals, gathered by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan. "The fact that one of two white Americans is eventually touched by poverty is a sizable percentage indeed," according to the report. "Nevertheless, it pales in comparison to the enormity of poverty's grasp within the black population."
By the age of 25, the findings show, about 48.1 percent of black Americans will have experienced at least one year in poverty. By age 40, the number grows to two-thirds and to more than three-fourths by age 50. More than 90 percent will have lived below the poverty line by age 75.
The researchers say that by age 28, the black population will have reached the ulative level of lifetime poverty that the white population arrives at by age 75. "In other words, blacks have experienced in nine years the same risk of poverty that whites [experience] in 56 years," the report stated.
Poverty is defined by the federal government as a family of four with an annual income of about $16,000 or less, for example. (The latest available figure, from 1997, is $16,276 for a family of four people, which includes two children.) Dire poverty is defined by the government as a family with income one-half that of the poverty level. The figures for single individuals are proportionally adjusted for these amounts.
By age 30, according to the report, one-third of black Americans will have spent at least one year of their adult life in dire poverty, rising to about 50 percent by age 45 and more than 66 percent by age 75. In contrast, only 26.6 percent of white Americans will have lived at the dire-poverty level by the age of 75.
"The fact that virtually every [black] American will experience poverty at some point during their adulthood speaks volumes as to the economic meaning of being black in America," noted the report.
The usefulness of the report, Hirschl said, is the hope "that social workers continue to work to ameliorate the conditions that poverty makes, but we also hope to provide rationale for social workers getting involved in poverty policy. Among the industrialized nations of the world, the United States has the least-effective policy for fighting poverty."
The research was partially funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca and federal Hatch funding.
Pathetic.
^ sorry. I thought this is the "What are you listening to right now?" thread.
Pathetic.
It's called citing a source. What argument do I need to make exactly? You are the one trying to fight against the cold hard facts.
Why in the are you citing something that I asked you to explain what YOU yourself posted?? It's because you don't even know what the you are talking about. You saw it as something to "attack" me and posted it.
I seriously doubt you even understand the citation you posted.
Well my job here is done. I helped answer the OP's original question.
?
I guess everybody who fought in the Union was black then with that mentality. JFK must've been black as well huh? Abe Lincoln was actually black? Wow, I guess everyone who fought against some form of racism against African Americans are telling the whole world that they are actually black!
Why in the are you citing something that I asked you to explain what YOU yourself posted?? It's because you don't even know what the you are talking about. You saw it as something to "attack" me and posted it.
What the needs to be explained to you? Do I need to to put in in terms that you can understand? Maybe this will help....
Black folks iz po'.
C deez ten buckets?
9 of dem s iz po' as ! If you only ate 1 of dem dat one iz a balla
Hope that helped.
No. I'm not.
What should we discuss next?
I disagree with Farrakhan's ideology pretty vehemently, and therefore make zero apologies for the man, but that's a pretty difficult thing to measure, wouldn't you agree?
It's really pretty easy, actually.
We had this discussion in my seminar class yesterday. My professor made the point to talk about this Tolerance Museum in LA. I've never hard of it. But she said there are two doors, one is for people with prejudice and the other is for those without. She asked us which one we would go in..the majority of us said 'not prejudice.' Then she said, ' ...the not prejudice door is locked. Whatcha gonna do now?'
The point is, no matter how 'not prejudice, racist, etc' you think you are..there is always a little bit with.
Not if you hear it all the time. It probably wouldn't affect you though, considering how refined and progressive you are.
LOL. Was this a punchline? Or was she trying to make a point?
It sounds like something Michael Scott might say in his Chris Rock voice.
Agreed, but if one could measure it then I think Farrakhan would be near the top of such a list. The man is certifiably insane.
you could have been funny and said, "I'll get some n'er to break in for me."
There's an actual Museum of Tolerance?
I honestly thought that was just a South Park episode (albeit a brilliant one).
No. She said it more tactfully, but that was the jist of it.
Cultures and races of people in general are very different. Some of those differences are viewed as positive and some negative. At udes and views on women, children, marriage, etc... can vary widely among different cultures. Pretending like certain cultures and races don't have their negative qualities is ignorant. It's also ignorant to think that every person of a certain race or culture will behave a certain way, but that doesn't mean broad generalizations won't be true over a large sample size.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
