white guy gets called racial slur, goes on to enjoy pretty nice life as a white guy
What happens when a black person is called a racial slur? They cannot live a nice life as a black person? You are insinuating that black people are more negatively affected by insults than white people.
Oh, white people have nice lives and it's all at the expense of black people not having great lives. Great outlook on race issues in America! The achievement gap is just sitting there and most people refuse to acknowledge it - that is racism as well.
The achievement gap is a symptom of the institutionalized racism in our country. Funding and resources for schools is not evenly distributed, it tends to get funneled to the wealthy white neighborhoods, which then leaves poor school districts without the resources to prepare their students properly.
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school?
Fuck, more and more colleges aren't even requiring the SAT anymore because it's been proven for several decades to be extremely culturally biased in favor of middle-upper class white folks.
When the deck is stacked against you from the get go, arguments about achievement gaps kinda get thrown out the window.
"Hey! We're going to give 1/3 of the resources and preparation, but we expect you to perform at the same level as all the other folks who got all the tutoring and attention they could handle."
On the other side of this debate, is there an app that points you to the current happening areas, say on a random Thursday night, for bars, clubs, restaurants etc?
Maybe I could filter for a 'green chick' demographic.
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school? "
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school? "
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school? "
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school? "
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school? "
In 2012, 46.5 million people were living in poverty in the United StatesÔÇöthe largest number in the 54 years the Census has measured poverty.
Census figures reveal a stark contrast in the percentages of non-Hispanic whites living in poverty as compared to Hispanics and blacks. In 2012, 9.7% of non-Hispanic whites (18.9 million) were living in poverty, while over a quarter of Hispanics (13.6 million), and 27.2% of blacks (10.9 million) were living in poverty.
13.6 + 10.9 = 24.5
24.5 / 46.5 = 0.52
So not only are the raw numbers of blacks and latinos almost twice as much as whites, their rates of poverty are also twice - and almost 3 times for blacks - as much as whites.
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Stop taking the bait.
The achievement gap is a symptom of the institutionalized racism in our country. Funding and resources for schools is not evenly distributed, it tends to get funneled to the wealthy white neighborhoods, which then leaves poor school districts without the resources to prepare their students properly.
When over 50% of people living in poverty are black or latino, guess which students get the least preparation for college or for life after high school?
Fuck, more and more colleges aren't even requiring the SAT anymore because it's been proven for several decades to be extremely culturally biased in favor of middle-upper class white folks.
When the deck is stacked against you from the get go, arguments about achievement gaps kinda get thrown out the window.
"Hey! We're going to give 1/3 of the resources and preparation, but we expect you to perform at the same level as all the other folks who got all the tutoring and attention they could handle."
Maybe I could filter for a 'green chick' demographic.
Here you go battyboy
http://bit.ly/1pMNqAM
No, I actually suspect that you are battyboy420.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#Poverty_and_race.2Fethnicity
Here's some more since you never seem able to google this stuff for yourself.
there is nothing on there that says 50% of people in poverty are black or latino. can you please quote the particular section you are referring to?
Ok?
A suspicion is not an allegation.
To answer your question here are some numbers, not rates
http://www.nclej.org/poverty-in-the-us.php
13.6 + 10.9 = 24.5
24.5 / 46.5 = 0.52
So not only are the raw numbers of blacks and latinos almost twice as much as whites, their rates of poverty are also twice - and almost 3 times for blacks - as much as whites.